This is a formal warning: if you go on posting comments that it is impossible for the community to leave on the record:
By the way, I love how fast police action has broken out in this supposedly anti-authoritarianism community. It's a beautiful example of group-think in action. Doesn't do a thing for your own credibility but then again we can't all win. So I think I'll stay true to my dissident principles and you'll lose all of your own credentials.
You don't like it here, you know what you can do.
End of discussion. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
In his case, that's probably stay and be a pain until you ban him so he can add the community to his hate list.
He's like those London yobs who take pride in their ASBOs. The length of his hate list is his personal measure of accomplishment.
But, like with the ASBOs, by disciplining him you're making his day.
Don't feed the troll. "It's the statue, man, The Statue."
How does a grumpy young man like me get to as be happy in his middle-age as you are, afew? "It's the statue, man, The Statue."
Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll?
and politics... "Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char
It is possible to disagree vigorously with others here without needing to treat them with contempt or insults. Just bring out your facts and arguments, if things are so obvious to you, and enlighten us. We actually listen, you know.
I personally don't mind so much your hostile comments on their own, because the only person they shed a poor light on is you (on your personality and manners, if not always on your graps of facts), but the fact is that the disrupt threads and lower the "high density" you referred to above.
Thus, if you cannot abide by the standards of this place, you WILL be banned. You'll still be able to read us an enjoy our quality content, but we won't have to deal with your needlessly disruptive manners. Do you really think you contribute to the "high density of knowledge and ideas and justice" when you insult just about everybody here? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
This results in an incredibly high signal-to-noise ratio.
Richardk obviously doesn't possess any of those traits, and as I noted a while ago, we can expect more of the same from him. Some people just can't adjust, and he won't, he can't help it.
Could a resident psychologist get meta on us all and explain about how behaviour is mirrored and then re-mirrored so the tone reflects and magnifies?
I suggest the following:
a) Ignore a richardk post. Never reply to it. DO NOT FEED THE TROLL. As balbuz writes, he has done this elsewhere, it is his normal online behaviour. Asking him to change won't work.
b) Ignore a richardk TROLL post. Once he gets...richardk-I-smell-evil-I-love-all-humans-except-for-the-90%-I-HATE...that's it, conversation over. No comeback. Bye bye ta ta. And of course troll-rate his sudden racist outbursts.
c) Be very CAPS LOCK ABUSIVE at him while also super-troll rating his posts (that annoy you.) I tried that, I was hoping the whole mess would be super-troll rated (take it outside!)...and then...everyone can have fun being violently abusive with words and pics... The "Stormy Catharsis" as it's known...heavy on the humour!
"Your farts smell of stale cheese and ugly beetles thrive in your armpit hair!"
d) Become the ET policeman...da pigs! Find some ET law he has violated and punish him.
I think a)-c) would be effective enough. And his ratings...heh...ratings tell you about the rater as well as the comment... I have received a richardk "1"--heh...I was a tad abusive once upon a time...
But never again, I promised The Stormy Present!
(She theatened me with a bloody axe...tork about "the right way to do things"...
...from me richardk will only ever receive a "4" or a "0"...but his comments...we can all leave them hanging if we so wish...no ratings...no replies...non sequiturs...and zero rating for the racist ones...
Well, as they say, your mileage may vary...depending on your time, transport medium, length of hair and, er, wind factors....cough cough...confused now...
Ah yes, I remember:
Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
