The Care and Feeding of Trolls

[Kishkumen]

And there it is, again!!! Hey Shades this is your board! This is exactly why you don’t have more people joining!! These guys have formed a cabal! This is exactly why conservatives leave, Shades! He explained it perfectly!! They want their ECHO CHAMBER back!!!

Correction, Atlanticmike: This is OUR board. And guess what, it is not yet YOUR board. Anyone who can behave reasonably is welcome. Anyone who realizes that they have walked into an existing community, likes what they see, and wants to work into the conversation.

Imagine walking into a party at someone else's house, and then standing there shouting offensive garbage at the top of your lungs. Don't be surprised if someone shows you the door.

Imagine the same party. An old friend of the person throwing the party gets drunk and becomes obnoxious. Instead of immediately showing the person the door, the same people say, "Oh, look, Bill/Betty had a little too much, look how silly and obnoxious s/he is being."

Showing that old friend the door would take a lot longer, if it happened at all.

What part of this is too difficult for you to understand?

You are in OUR house. Behave yourself dude. Quit behaving like an ignorant toddler.

[Atlanticmike]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!! I agree with you 100%!!! This isn’t a board open to new posters who want to join a discussion and speak freely! This is a board that only allows certain points of view and if you don’t comply, Doc Cam the enforcer will be sent out to deal with you!! Because that’s what you’re saying! Ajax has been your whipping boy for years and you like it!! Jersey likes it!! Everyone likes it! I come along and say, not so fast! Leave the guy alone, let him speak without being insulted and you guys take offense to that!! Why?? Because you’re school yard bullies! You guys live picking on posters that don’t agree with the ECHO CHAMBER NARRATIVE!! You perfectly explained why new posters don’t join!.

This board is open to new people who want to join this kind of discussion politely. Ones that can handle a little heat if someone gets upset with them. Most of all, it is a community of friends who have been together for many years.

So, you're welcome. It is kind of sad that you can claim to be a fully grown mature adult and yet do not understand the simplest of truths about human community that most people learned on the playground.

I understand Doc Cam, Kevin and Schmo!! I understand they love to insult posters away for the good of the community and thank you for admitting that!!

[Atlanticmike]

And there it is, again!!! Hey Shades this is your board! This is exactly why you don’t have more people joining!! These guys have formed a cabal! This is exactly why conservatives leave, Shades! He explained it perfectly!! They want their ECHO CHAMBER back!!!

Correction, Atlanticmike: This is OUR board. And guess what, it is not yet YOUR board. Anyone who can behave reasonably is welcome. Anyone who realizes that they have walked into an existing community, likes what they see, and wants to work into the conversation.

Imagine walking into a party at someone else's house, and then standing there shouting offensive garbage at the top of your lungs. Don't be surprised if someone shows you the door.

Imagine the same party. An old friend of the person throwing the party gets drunk and becomes obnoxious. Instead of immediately showing the person the door, the same people say, "Oh, look, Bill/Betty had a little too much, look how silly and obnoxious s/he is being."

Showing that old friend the door would take a lot longer, if it happened at all.

What part of this is too difficult for you to understand?

You are in OUR house. Behave yourself dude. Quit behaving like an ignorant toddler.

Wow!!!! What a party!! People are constantly insulted at your party because they don’t agree with the party narrative apparently. At your party Ajax walks around an is constantly insulted by just about every party goer! Called a nazi a White supremacist and even worse! And now your mad at me because I stand up for the guy who is constantly picked on!! Not my fault you decided to host your party in an ECHO CHAMBER! Maybe you guys should be nice to people!!

[Kishkumen]

I understand Doc Cam, Kevin and Schmo!! I understand they love to insult posters away for the good of the community and thank you for admitting that!!

Yeah, they do insult people, and they agree with people, and they do lots of different things. Thing is: they have a much wider range of behaviors than you do. You are a two-note piano, and it has already gotten really, really old.

Moreover, we don't know you, and we have no reason to like you. You haven't given us much to like you for. Only desperate martyrs for kooky ideologies and conspiracy theories seem to like what you are doing. And, thank God, that is a small minority.

Well, I am not in that minority. I am tired of you crapping all over my community.

[Kishkumen]

Wow!!!! What a party!! People are constantly insulted at your party because they don’t agree with the party narrative apparently. At your party Ajax walks around an is constantly insulted by just about every party goer! Called a nazi a White supremacist and even worse! And now your mad at me because I stand up for the guy who is constantly picked on!! Not my fault you decided to host your party in an ECHO CHAMBER! Maybe you guys should be nice to people!!

Maybe you should figure out how to get along with others in the place where you have entered as a latecomer. But no, you're the little pot-stirrer who walks into a place looking for trouble and then starts bawling like a little crybaby when you find it.

[Atlanticmike]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!! I agree with you 100%!!! This isn’t a board open to new posters who want to join a discussion and speak freely! This is a board that only allows certain points of view and if you don’t comply, Doc Cam the enforcer will be sent out to deal with you!! Because that’s what you’re saying! Ajax has been your whipping boy for years and you like it!! Jersey likes it!! Everyone likes it! I come along and say, not so fast! Leave the guy alone, let him speak without being insulted and you guys take offense to that!! Why?? Because you’re school yard bullies! You guys live picking on posters that don’t agree with the ECHO CHAMBER NARRATIVE!! You perfectly explained why new posters don’t join!.

This board is open to new people who want to join this kind of discussion politely. Ones that can handle a little heat if someone gets upset with them. Most of all, it is a community of friends who have been together for many years.

So, you're welcome. It is kind of sad that you can claim to be a fully grown mature adult and yet do not understand the simplest of truths about human community that most people learned on the playground.

I think it’s a shame you think you’re a fully grown mature adult and you’ve stood by for years and years watching Doc Cam, Kevin and Schmo call Ajax and other conservative posters horrible names and insults. You see, that’s the difference between you and me! You’re perfectly fine when bullies gang up and pick on certain posters! You probably enjoy it!! That’s why you’re upset!! I’ve said, if you’re going to bully Ajax and other conservatives, I’m going to give as good as you give and you can’t stand someone protecting the one guy (Ajax) everyone loves loves loves picking on!! You want to be able to log on in the morning and see what Schmo has posted about Ajax!! That’s exactly what you guys want!! You want your whipping boy back!!

[Kishkumen]

I think it’s a shame you think you’re a fully grown mature adult and you’ve stood by for years and years watching Doc Cam, Kevin and Schmo call Ajax and other conservative posters horrible names and insults. You see, that’s the difference between you and me! You’re perfectly fine when bullies gang up and pick on certain posters! You probably enjoy it!! That’s why you’re upset!! I’ve said, if you’re going to bully Ajax and other conservatives, I’m going to give as good as you give and you can’t stand someone protecting the one guy (Ajax) everyone loves loves loves picking on!! You want to be able to log on in the morning and see what Schmo has posted about Ajax!! That’s exactly what you guys want!! You want your whipping boy back!!

You have no idea what the word conservative even means. And you are completely ignorant of the history of this board. Moreover, I am not going to waste my time explaining the history to you. It is true that I have little sympathy for people who use Confederate generals as their avatars. It's a free country, and people are certainly welcome to MARGINALIZE THEMSELVES in such a way. But I am not going to feel badly if they catch crap for persisting in that kind of stupidity. Again, if you walk into a place and seek to provoke others, you will probably accomplish your childish mission.

That is what Ajax is up to, and that is what you are up to.

But you are not going to dictate to us what this board is about, or shame us for being the community we are. If DocCam insults a guy who is a racist, I will not lose much sleep over it. If Kevin calls a Trump-cultist a moron, again, not going to lose sleep over it.

And my plea to Shades is to put the history of this community above the strictest sense of free speech that he may be inclined to privilege. It is not worth it, Shades. Just my opinion. Numerous people contributed money and time to preserve the community. We don't want to let trolls destroy it.

[Atlanticmike]

I think it’s a shame you think you’re a fully grown mature adult and you’ve stood by for years and years watching Doc Cam, Kevin and Schmo call Ajax and other conservative posters horrible names and insults. You see, that’s the difference between you and me! You’re perfectly fine when bullies gang up and pick on certain posters! You probably enjoy it!! That’s why you’re upset!! I’ve said, if you’re going to bully Ajax and other conservatives, I’m going to give as good as you give and you can’t stand someone protecting the one guy (Ajax) everyone loves loves loves picking on!! You want to be able to log on in the morning and see what Schmo has posted about Ajax!! That’s exactly what you guys want!! You want your whipping boy back!!

You have no idea what the word conservative even means. And you are completely ignorant of the history of this board. Moreover, I am not going to waste my time explaining the history to you. It is true that I have little sympathy for people who use Confederate generals as their avatars. It's a free country, and people are certainly welcome to MARGINALIZE THEMSELVES in such a way. But I am not going to feel badly if they catch crap for persisting in that kind of stupidity. Again, if you walk into a place and seek to provoke others, you will probably accomplish your childish mission.

That is what Ajax is up to, and that is what you are up to.

But you are not going to dictate to us what this board is about, or shame us for being the community we are. If DocCam insults a guy who is a racist, I will not lose much sleep over it. If Kevin calls a Trump-cultist a moron, again, not going to lose sleep over it.

And my plea to Shades is to put the history of this community above the strictest sense of free speech that he may be inclined to privilege. It is not worth it, Shades. Just my opinion. Numerous people contributed money and time to preserve the community. We don't want to let trolls destroy it.

Thank you again!! I really mean it!! I love how you prove my point that no one cares if Doc Cam or Kevin are sent out to insult posters away!! Because that’s exactly what you said ! You don’t care!!! All you’re doing is proving my point and backing up my assertions. Ajax has been here for many many years and he’s still picked on! And if I’m banned he’ll be picked on even more by Schmo and Doc Cam and apparently you’re fine with that!! Why?? Because you want an ECHO CHAMBER!

[Philo Sofee]

See Kish? NOW AM is doing it with you. He refuses to participate reasonably and just goes right on being how he is. You are eminently reasonable and making a great request, and AM refuses to do so, and continues the trolling for page after page. Sometimes when a message board gets cancer, it is best to operate and cut it out, get rid of it. THIS Shades HAS to realize and perform an operation. AM simply will not change. And it is ruining the boards. There is no reasoning with him. We can be nice as he wishes and he will not stop disrupting and bringing in all kinds of idiotic comments that disagree with his views. I, once again, say KICK HIM OFF THE BOARD. HE, IN HIS CURRENT ATTITUDE IS NO LONGER WELCOME SINCE HE HADS NO DESIRE TO PARTICIPATE And he will suck one at a time into his orbit feigning ability to discuss, and take hundreds of pages no saying anything valuable or being a friend or contributing anything of any value. He has done this for months now. It's time to operate and cut out the cancer. Sometimes that's the only way to save life. SURGERY I vote for in AM's case.

[Philo Sofee]

AM
Because you want an ECHO CHAMBER!

Go away We don't want you here. Go elsewhere and post.