As
stated elsewhere, I now believe hate-threads such as this need to be approached constructively and diplomatically to identify any legitimate grievances that may be behind them, to admit wrongdoing on my part or to defend my behavior as appropriate.
If my replies here are deleted then they will be resurrected elsewhere, and if my attempts to elevate the constructiveness of the discussion are drowned out in an even greater flood of juvenile confrontational rudeness then these people's response will be documented as such yet again. You can conclude a chess game by smashing in your opponent's skull and walk away feeling good afterwards, but you will not be remembered as a great chess player. Only the fools will be fooled.
The dude is a fucking troll. He has been a troll. He is a troll. He will always be a troll. |
What does the word "troll" mean to you?
I've only used it in describing myself as humorous self-deprecation (i.e. I really do look like a creature from Nordic folklore in my outward appearance). I do often go on what I relativistically call "socialist forums" and engage people in debate, but I don't consider those campaigns to be a destructive or an intellectually shallow practice, quite to the contrary. The same cannot be said of this forum, where people's political opinions are usually much closer to my own, and which I use for less confrontational but more creativity-driven discussions. Isn't that what a forum is for?
If you respond to anything he says, in any thread, you have been trolled. |
Your accusations are an effective
thought-terminating cliché that, if not clarified, can be applied to label anyone a heretic for any irrational reason. Your accusations may be based on your personal reputation, which in turn is subject to their validity, but thus-far they have not been based on reason.
He is not participating on this BBS. He is infecting it. |
I am a part of this BBS, as are you. I've participated in thousands of engaging conversations here, I've read countless conversations that I did not contribute to (which I've actually started doing a few months before I created my first account here), and I've posted many things here that others have read and appreciated but did not respond to (yet), and more people will probably read and may choose to reply in the future. Some people (and bots) may even choose to copy-and-post my writings elsewhere, which too is a legitimate function of an Internet forum. I have posted a hundred different genres of content here, but none of them were intended to do anything but promote the mutually-beneficial relationship between myself and this BBS.
On an average night, he bumps five threads, all of which he has created and almost no one has responded to. They are often months or years old. |
On an average night I revive more like 0.5 old threads (i.e. a yearly average of the number of posts I make where the previous post is more than 90 days old), but I almost always do so by adding other relevant content to that thread, thus increasing its value.
Some people here agree that having too many threads on the same topic fragments the conversation and lowers its quality, and there are other benefits of "necroing" as well. It elevates the value of this forum from a flood of throw-away one-liners into living literature that can have lasting value!
You are welcome to have a narrower view of how this forum should ideally be used, but your vocal "chronological snobbery" has no objective basis. You are welcome to ignore me, to install server-side forum add-ons to make ignoring "necroed" threads easier (I'd gladly help with that effort, as well as some other features that would reduce the need to "necro", like tagging), etc - but bitching and whining about it every time benefits no one!
He is a fucking attention whore and a blight. |
If I was just an "attention whore" then I could easily be a politically useful writer or a college professor. I could have also made a strategic effort to be agreeable and popular here (ex. guns, meat, pop culture, photoshops, fake humility, and breasts), but that would have a
much lower philosophical value to me personally. Replace the word "attention" with "self-expression" and the word "whore" with "swinger", and you'll be a step closer to the truth. My creative output may be original, but my tactics are in no way unusual or deliberately destructive. All human relationships exchange value for value - without this interpersonal communication would be impossible.
My presence on this forum brings value that, although nuanced, cannot simply be dismissed as "blight". I contribute a lot of creative and well-intentioned ideas to this forum that some people may appreciate, and others are free to ignore. I am one of the most prolific posters here, although I agree that the literary value of my content is purely subjective (as is yours or anyone else's). I also have a tendency to backlink to my threads on this forum from other sites (more so in between any major anti-Libman hate threads).
There is a whole list of reasons why my threads may be more thought-provoking than reply-provoking. People are far more likely to be vocal in their rejection of something unusual than in their appreciation of it.