See, this is what I don't get about you (and to a far greater extent Volpone): the only thing the both of you contribute is whining and bitching about how the board runs and when asked point blank what it is that sucks, you'll turn tail. You bitched incessively about Tamar being on staff and then when she stepped down you still wanted to have a go at her. You spent the first year of your posting here shitting up every thread with your fued with garamet, and yes I'm very much aware she contributed as much tothat as you so save that fucking argument. As for truths about the place? Flashlight is not original in that, either, except for dragging people's personal lifes through the mud, which does nothing but turn people off to whatever supposed point he was trying to make.
This is wonderful. A real beauty of a thread. It demands that I be at a desktop to respond to the avalanche of stupidity and hypocrisy John has unleashed, because this is going to require pictures and lots of quote tags.
Anyone who is so obviously obsessed with pointing out the perceived perversions of other, as Flashy is, is clearly trying to deflect attention away from their own deviant tendencies. I'm guessing he's into necro-bestial-analingus of some kind or another.
What's funny is that I haven't even returned to the original subject of this thread - douchebag atheists using Muad's memorial thread to pimp their non-belief. Because, you know, it's impossible for these chowderheads to write something respectful without prefacing it with a self-absorbed declaration of atheism. That the thread turned into an angry queer huffing and puffing and garamet threatening to file false police reports is what has made this an instant classic.
I'm not an atheist. But I think organised religion is a crock of shit. There was an interesting discussion in the thread in question before Maud passed. It was a debate about the power of prayer and and I happened to comment that the thread had produced an interesting discussion, to which Muad agreed. So don't be coming in here and deciding what Muad would and would not have considered valid discussion. You are the faceless cunt here, like all the other classic trolls, be it Faceman, WAB or people like Hood before them. It's people like you who are the rotten core of this board and have been for a long time. Most people here know each other now. This place is a community, whether we say bad shit to each other or good. Easy targets like John Castle have been the victims, the sacrificial lambs, while cunts like you manipulate the rules and squirrel around, taking potshots at people to boost your own insecurities, whilst hiding behind the cloak of anonymity. All you have proven with threads like this is that you want to try and give someone a hard time from the shadows....you know, like a a real man does. It serves no other purpose than to reinforce the already dim view of you. Well done.
^This. Only I wouldn't describe him as "core" to the board. He's more like that flaky patch of skin that a bit of psoriasis cream will eliminate. I've never understood why "Well, he's never actually broken any of the rules" is sufficient for a privately-owned board to tolerate trolls. Owners: You're essentially subsidizing this asshat. Why?
Garamet being so quick to jump on the "ban Flashy" bandwagon almost makes one forget that a couple of months ago she was protesting the injustice of Worm Boy wanting to get rid of her for many of the same reasons (persistent trolling, adds nothing of value to the board, disrupts the flow of worthwhile discussion, etc.) Those in glass houses Mags.......
Oh my god, I know who Flashy is now. I don't know why it took so long to piece together, but I know who he is:
So what are the WF rules about making comments about dead family members/loved ones? I seem to remember something like: if it was revealed in the BR, using it in the RR for insults & such was worthy of a ban. Something like that. Whether it is or isn't, it's stepping over the line in my book. I'd say give him the boot till he calms the fuck down. A pity it went down this path, it could have been a nice discussion about how to behave in a memorial thread if you don't agree with the religious views of the deceased. If it had been posted by anyone else, that is. Personally, I don't mind putting people on ignore. It's a fun feature to customize the board and take out the rotten apples. And there's nothing that annoys a troll more than being ignored. *zap*!
It is the consensus among staff and affected parties that the information was out there, not just in the Blue Room. It was nevertheless a shit thing to do, so the less attention we give him, the better.