by Garth's Equipment Shop » Sat May 17, 2014 8:07 pm
Flack wrote:lethargic wrote:I will never understand why staying on topic is so important on the internet. It's something that doesn't matter in the actual world, but for some reason on the internet it's rule #1.
This is completely different. It's not like someone is talking about their love of donuts and he tosses something out like "I like donuts, but cinnamon rolls are good too." It's like when someone says "I like A, B, and C" and then he launches into some off the wall discussion about why you shouldn't include a comma after the B and which style manuals say it's okay and which ones don't. If you're talking about computers, he might respond with an excerpt of Charles Babbage's biography from Wikipedia. A discussion of current weather patterns is likely to elicit a response about a movie he watched once that took place in the desert (or worse, the climate in one of his own books or stories).
I think every one here wishes the guy would put some effort into contributing to conversations and making them better instead of worse. I also think that at this point, everyone here agrees that it is beyond his capacity to do so.
Wow - this describes most of his old posts in the ACK sub forum! I just politely ignored them when they were so irrelevant as to be derailing to the thread. I guess we all are guilty of derailing threads at times such as in one of the ACK work in progress threads that was inspired by Wasteland.
Though I think that one could be forgiven by the fact that Wasteland 2 had just recently become big news so no one could help but talk about it, even the OP himself I believe, if memory serves. But when the same poster repeatedly posts potentially thread derailing pap for years and is neither caught up in a multi-member mass-derailing madness nor inspiring one I normally do not think of said poster as a real human being but rather some kind of automated spam bot.
Normally I would delete such posts from any threads or forums I moderated. I refrained from deleting Tdarcos's posts primarily because I assumed he was a fixture of the Jolt Country community, our gracious hosts, and so even his really 'out there' posts were just ignored instead of deleted in the ACK subforum.
As a kind of hydrocortisone ointment to the irritation he created I reasoned to myself that at least his posts were usually something about retro computer systems or old school programming arcana. I'll have to read over them again to see if any previously passed over posts of his actually warrant deletion. Perhaps it's just the ointment talking but his more recent postings in our part of town do seem a bit less irritating than older ones.
And I guess he finally wore me down because I recently even added him to the ACK community list even though he has repeatedly stated he has never even tried ACK and doesn't plan to ever use it. But I figured he at least is a regular lurker of ACK threads and has multiple posts there past and present. I guess it was more ointment again to hope that by making him feel more included in the community he might actually give ACK a try and then be in a better position to post something more relevant to other ACK users.
BTW: Remind me to never piss you off ICJ, lol. I don't see how anyone could have recovered from the devastating ass-ripping you served to Tdarcos, yet somehow he seemed to remain completely unemotional and coldly logical in response to it just like a robot that doesn't really understand emotion or human feelings. I'm beginning to think Tdarcos is like some crazy AI/Eliza programming experiment you guys set loose here.
[quote="Flack"][quote="lethargic"]I will never understand why staying on topic is so important on the internet. It's something that doesn't matter in the actual world, but for some reason on the internet it's rule #1.[/quote]
This is completely different. It's not like someone is talking about their love of donuts and he tosses something out like "I like donuts, but cinnamon rolls are good too." It's like when someone says "I like A, B, and C" and then he launches into some off the wall discussion about why you shouldn't include a comma after the B and which style manuals say it's okay and which ones don't. If you're talking about computers, he might respond with an excerpt of Charles Babbage's biography from Wikipedia. A discussion of current weather patterns is likely to elicit a response about a movie he watched once that took place in the desert (or worse, the climate in one of his own books or stories).
I think every one here wishes the guy would put some effort into contributing to conversations and making them better instead of worse. I also think that at this point, everyone here agrees that it is beyond his capacity to do so.[/quote]
Wow - this describes most of his old posts in the ACK sub forum! I just politely ignored them when they were so irrelevant as to be derailing to the thread. I guess we all are guilty of derailing threads at times such as in one of the ACK work in progress threads that was inspired by Wasteland.
Though I think that one could be forgiven by the fact that Wasteland 2 had just recently become big news so no one could help but talk about it, even the OP himself I believe, if memory serves. But when the same poster repeatedly posts potentially thread derailing pap for years and is neither caught up in a multi-member mass-derailing madness nor inspiring one I normally do not think of said poster as a real human being but rather some kind of automated spam bot.
Normally I would delete such posts from any threads or forums I moderated. I refrained from deleting Tdarcos's posts primarily because I assumed he was a fixture of the Jolt Country community, our gracious hosts, and so even his really 'out there' posts were just ignored instead of deleted in the ACK subforum.
As a kind of hydrocortisone ointment to the irritation he created I reasoned to myself that at least his posts were usually something about retro computer systems or old school programming arcana. I'll have to read over them again to see if any previously passed over posts of his actually warrant deletion. Perhaps it's just the ointment talking but his more recent postings in our part of town do seem a bit less irritating than older ones.
And I guess he finally wore me down because I recently even added him to the ACK community list even though he has repeatedly stated he has never even tried ACK and doesn't plan to ever use it. But I figured he at least is a regular lurker of ACK threads and has multiple posts there past and present. I guess it was more ointment again to hope that by making him feel more included in the community he might actually give ACK a try and then be in a better position to post something more relevant to other ACK users.
BTW: Remind me to never piss you off ICJ, lol. I don't see how anyone could have recovered from the devastating ass-ripping you served to Tdarcos, yet somehow he seemed to remain completely unemotional and coldly logical in response to it just like a robot that doesn't really understand emotion or human feelings. I'm beginning to think Tdarcos is like some crazy AI/Eliza programming experiment you guys set loose here.