In response to Jonsey, from Ben's BBS

[lethargic]

I'm going to start a message board for me and Tdarcos to post on and none of you are invited.

[RetroRomper]

Will your message board have blackjack and hookers?

[Tdarcos]

I agree with this.

(I secretly don't agree with this, but I'm all about the greater good in 2014.)

I don't care. It's over. Oh yeah, he STILL HAS UNMITIGATED ACCESS TO THE OTHER SITE I RUN. Nobody else will give him one (1) place to post and I gave him 2 for four years.

I don't post that many other places and not one has ever banned me.

He doesn't get the enormous favor I have been doing for him. He doesn't comprehend that.

So I am politely asking him to leave one of the places.

You've acted in a psychotic fashion then blamed me or complained for replicating your behavior. If you really wanted me not to post here, you could have sent me an e-mail politely asking. Note also when you did that off-topic cry out for your mommie, I did not use my handle to do a sarcastic comment about it.

Next you say, keep it on topic and as close to 10 lines or less as possible and I'm ok; I have since done so (I can't help if counts 10 when I posting but expands to 12-13.) Now you complain and don't tell me a goddam thing. What the fuck do you want? I'm simply more-or-less replicating your own behavior, just amped up to 11. (And this post was 10 lines when I made it.)

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Paul, I am politely asking you to no longer post here.

[pinback]

The lack of appreciation you are displaying, Paul, is beyond the pale, and definitely a sign of autism.

[lethargic]

You've acted in a psychotic fashion then blamed me or complained for replicating your behavior. If you really wanted me not to post here, you could have sent me an e-mail politely asking. Note also when you did that off-topic cry out for your mommie, I did not use my handle to do a sarcastic comment about it.

Next you say, keep it on topic and as close to 10 lines or less as possible and I'm ok; I have since done so (I can't help if counts 10 when I posting but expands to 12-13.) Now you complain and don't tell me a goddam thing. What the fuck do you want? I'm simply more-or-less replicating your own behavior, just amped up to 11. (And this post was 10 lines when I made it.)

Looks like 10 lines to me. And 10 good ones. Don't let these cyber bullies run you off. The rest of us appreciate your thoughtful and insightful posts. Your sly injections of humor is like finding a loose skittle under the couch cushion while trying to find the remote. I was annoyed and now I have this delicious treat!

[lethargic]

Will your message board have blackjack and hookers?

No, but it will have edit and delete buttons and lots of well thought out posts and off the wall laughs.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Haha, you (the non Caltrops) guys crying about your edit buttons IS funny. It is very funny to me! Hahaha!

Especially since the end result is that someone always blanks out their post. It's happened all six times I've enabled editing.

[lethargic]

Let's go for 7!

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I will admit that without a certain someone around, it's more appealing.

Actually, I should make a user group that contains the people that want editing and put them in it. And if you blank out your post, the only way to get back in is to post a positive review of Breaking Bad.

[lethargic]

You are the Josef Mengele of message boards.

[Garth's Equipment Shop]

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.

[Tdarcos]

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.

I resent being referred to as a bot, or some AI system, because I find that denigration of my existence to be insulting, and further I

SYSTEM CRASH, PROCESSOR OVERLOAD. REGISTER DUMP AS FOLLOWS:

R0-00000034 R1-7AF034E6 R2-17742100 R3-00000000
R4-00000001 R5-FFFFFFFF R6-7E34716 R7-00000000
R8-00000000 R9-00000000 R10-0007A326 R11-0077EEFF
R12-00773210 R13-00060300 R14-00060000 R15-007E000

CORE DUMP SAVED
PROGRAM TERMINATED

[Flack]

Plus, it's insulting to anyone who has written a halfway decent script or bot.

[pinback]

Plus, it's insulting to anyone who has written a halfway decent script or bot.