Thanks. I've always wanted to know that. My life is complete.
Boy Tim, you really had to reach hard for that one, eh?
("Gotta get Sean back for all the times he'd called me to the carpet for being TheContrarian. Gotta, gotta, gotta.") That part of my post was just an FYI; you conveniently snipped the rest of my post, which had the real point.
I didn't really take much notice of PocketPoint's posts, so can someone fill me in on what he did wrong please?
And what is the point in continually banning him? What does it achieve, other giving the nazi hunters an inflated sense of self worth?
And and, seems to me we're better off banning the dullards, rather than those that are creative in opening thought-provoking threads.
Tim, there is a difference between contributing discussion to a forum, and contributing strife to a forum. Big difference between the two. One encourages thoughtful discourse and exchange of ideas; the other is selfish gratification (e.g. "see see see? Look, see what I did? I caused people to get their hackles up!"). PocketPoint was a good example of the latter -- the stuff he posted was intentionally to light the fuse of topics HE KNOWS will cause strife. Pet examples are aiming and APA (league). Also, his STYLE was very obnoxious as well. He would start new threads with one-liner random musings as if the AZB forums were his personal Twitter account. Again, there's the difference between someone CONTRIBUTING to the forum, and someone DUMPING into the forum.
And you can see by his multiple attempts at "getting back onto AZB" that he's fixated on his task. Trolls tend to be that way. Ordinary people who actually have something to contribute will just say, "fine, they don't want me? That's their loss!" and move on. That would be the adult thing to do, by the way. Trolls tend to have some nature about them still stuck in childhood.
Dullards, by the way, although non-contributory, at least don't intentionally cause strife on the forums. And, that's a very subjective and relative term, too. I'd love to know what your definition of dullard might be. Perhaps more than half of the well-behaved folks on here who CONTRIBUTE, but because they don't push buttons or go after probing sensitive areas, they are considered "dullards" by you? (I'll bet I'm public enemy number one on your list, then!)
-Sean
