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MysticCow wrote:

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So? It isn't like this thread is going to change anyone's behavior. That much is obvious.

so on a completely un-related topic, has bb always been an admin or did he just get promoted?

benightedbastard wrote:

MysticCow wrote:

It isn't that we don't like the topic.  It is just that NOBODY on this board can form a lynch mob against him faster than XYZ can.  I'm sure nobody has made the mods on this board form a lynch mob faster than XYZ has.

Because, of course, by the sheer force of his magnetic personality you're just helpless to resist replying to his threads.

Think about it this way, if you ignore them then they'll drop out of site all the quicker. I'm going to try applying that myself as of.... now.

But if we do that, what will we do with our torches and pitchforks?

I like that marshmallow idea.  YUMMY

I just like how XYZ can't even come back to his own personal bitchfests.  Maybe he's packed up and left town?




Probably not.

IcarusFountain wrote:

I just like how XYZ can't even come back to his own personal bitchfests.  Maybe he's packed up and left town?




Probably not.

Nope. He posted elsewhere on Sat 8/27 at 5:18pm. He's just avoiding his own thread.

Looks like a clear case of "bitch and run".

(disclaimer: I didn't read the entire thread -- only enough of it to see the majority of it is sailing on XYZ for his complaining tone. This post will continue with that theme.)

<observation>

Hi XYZ:

I don't really know you, and if we've conversed on the MAF before, I don't recall. It seems you hang out mostly in the places I dare not venture (mainly minithink), so I'm not really familiar with the majority of your posts. I do, however, frequent most of the other forums in the MAF, and I just thought I'd communicate to you the perceptions of a neutral "outsider": one who isn't involved with your threads or the controversies thereby resulting.

Your posts here in FFF have a tendency to be (...how can I communicate this effectively, yet diplomatically...) -- well, let's put it this way:

Do you know how William Shatner went from being Sci-Fi Superstud to Fanboy Hero to a joke to a shell of his former self? Your posts are like present-day William Shatner. Well, actually, that's not accurate...you see, at least he realizes he's a shadow of his former self, and he capitalizes on the joke. He *gets* it. Your posts, OTOH, actually seem to be serious complaints that take themselves entirely too seriously. Reading them has become some twisted form of guilty pleasure (or a constant annoyance, depending on who you ask).

The problem with those sorts of complaints, though, is that they are often dismissed as "bitchy whiney boo-hoo" posts, because, well...that's pretty much what they are.

I have nothing against you; nor am I familiar with the threads you often come in here complaining about, but the common denominator in all of these "stop the oppression!" posts in FFF is, that's right: the screen name "XYZ". That should tell you something.

Again, this is from a neutral outsider: these threads portray you as a spoiled brat who somehow feels a sense of entitlement or privilege (...and I'm referring mostly to your own posts, not the pages of retorts that they generate).

</observation>

I have absolutely no problem with XYZ, and I do not discriminate against him in any way.  I would post as I do with him, with anyone who makes such posts.

What I mean to say is that he is very good at making himself a target.

CaptKevMan wrote:

(disclaimer: I didn't read the entire thread -- only enough of it to see the majority of it is sailing on XYZ for his complaining tone. This post will continue with that theme.)

<observation>

Hi XYZ:

I don't really know you, and if we've conversed on the MAF before, I don't recall. It seems you hang out mostly in the places I dare not venture (mainly minithink), so I'm not really familiar with the majority of your posts. I do, however, frequent most of the other forums in the MAF, and I just thought I'd communicate to you the perceptions of a neutral "outsider": one who isn't involved with your threads or the controversies thereby resulting.

Your posts here in FFF have a tendency to be (...how can I communicate this effectively, yet diplomatically...) -- well, let's put it this way:

Do you know how William Shatner went from being Sci-Fi Superstud to Fanboy Hero to a joke to a shell of his former self? Your posts are like present-day William Shatner. Well, actually, that's not accurate...you see, at least he realizes he's a shadow of his former self, and he capitalizes on the joke. He *gets* it. Your posts, OTOH, actually seem to be serious complaints that take themselves entirely too seriously. Reading them has become some twisted form of guilty pleasure (or a constant annoyance, depending on who you ask).

The problem with those sorts of complaints, though, is that they are often dismissed as "bitchy whiney boo-hoo" posts, because, well...that's pretty much what they are.

I have nothing against you; nor am I familiar with the threads you often come in here complaining about, but the common denominator in all of these "stop the oppression!" posts in FFF is, that's right: the screen name "XYZ". That should tell you something.

Again, this is from a neutral outsider: these threads portray you as a spoiled brat who somehow feels a sense of entitlement or privilege (...and I'm referring mostly to your own posts, not the pages of retorts that they generate).

</observation>

HOMOPHOBE

Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:

XYZ was in Star Trek?

he was a red shirt

he should drop by the Clubhouse.  we have a homophobe (or is it homophone?) thread going on there.