Sorry for picking the scab so late but I wanted to be on a proper keyboard so I could hammer away a bit harder. This also meant that I started wondering whether it was worth the effort to post at all, but since I am partially to blame for starting this, here goes.
I doubt that it will make a difference, though.
The problem I have with "shit on this forum" is that I have found myself holding back even when I had something to contribute to a discussion because it's not worth the effort. You will not listen, and all that will happen is that I'll get a pile of shit heaped on me and be called an idiot. Mind you, this was, at first, not a conscious decision of mine but more of a subconscious conditioning, but the net result was the same: Rather than seriously engaging in meaninful discussions, I stopped posting anything with any actual content.
This is what I expressed in a thread elsewhere on this forum when your latest antics were vented. The end result of this discussion was that @boomzilla had a chat with you (which was his decision (which I support) and not something anyone urged him to do). As far as I am concerned, this was all there was to it. Until now.
I am not sure whether you actually read the forum, but the only person here that immediately resorts to name-calling is you. The rest of us are able to hold quite extensive and heated debates without ever calling the others idiots, morons, numbskulls, or whatever else your limited vocabulary recycles. I do not find your abuse funny, and I do not think it has anything to do with discussing "curious perversions in information technology", but to each his own and I have simply not cared enough to say anything about it before.
Somewhere in this thread you wrote "I only post what people want to read anyway" (I won't bother discoquoting it for you). How do you know? As you are so wont to point out, you are not telepathic! Have you noticed that the moment you get engaged in a discussion most of us quietly leave, and only a few remain? Have you noticed that you are the only one with your very distinctive abusive argumentation style, and even the people who respond to you are polite and to the point? While not conclusive evidence to support that people do not want to read your vulgarities, it is certainly interesting, isn't it?
Regarding your invitation to "TALK TO ME" (shouting sic): thanks but no thanks. You have spent almost a decade consistently being a jerk and insulting everyone the moment they talk back to you. It's like a ten year old two-year-old temper tantrum. I am not telepathic and have no means of knowing that you will not just continue shitting in my face if I take this up with you. In fact, most evidence points towards that this is exactly what is going to happen. Either @blakeyrat is a persona, in which case any insult is highly intentional and talking to you is not going to change anything, or you are a psychopath, in which case talking to you is not going to change anything. Let me express this as a simple prisoner's dilemma for you:
| | Send a PM | Do not send a PM |
| Blakey is a psychopath | more abuse | abuse |
| Blakey is a persona | more abuse | abuse |
This has nothing to do with cowardice, it is a matter of effort and expected results.
One idiot doth not a forum make, and there are plenty of other, better reasons for coming here than to watch your uninteresting, unintelligent, and unfunny attempts at trolling. But, coming back to my original point, your writing style prevents a, to me, more meaningful exchange of ideas.
As for your claim to forum ownership based on seniority: I posted my first usenet post in 1986 on a 600-baud modem. I hosted my own BBS and a FidoNet node in 1987. I wrote my first communications stack in 1991. I browsed the web using Gopher and Archie in 1992. I think I can safely say "Wipe your nose and get off my internet!"