Let’s all take a step back from the escalating tit for tat, and just anon on, shall we?
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The tit for tat and pile-ons are embarrassing and pointless coming from otherwise intelligent, wise and thoughtful posters. Some think that the Q team actually kept an eye on our threads in the early days, using the Q post with 188 exclamation points as evidence, following a back-and-forth here about a poster lifting 188% of their weight, if I remember correctly. (I miss bagster.) If the Q team ever followed our threads, I hope they’ve missed all of the recent perplexing and unseemly sniping at each other. I think every long-time poster here is a patriot and none of us should have to defend ourselves against the accusation that we’re not.
I’m not usually awake at this hour, let alone posting, so maybe I’m just crabby this morning, but I feel exasperated at times at the splenetic posts. As Easy said, “anon on”.
sple·net·ic
[spləˈnedik]
ADJECTIVE
bad-tempered; spiteful:
“a splenetic outburst”
SIMILAR:
bad-tempered
ill-tempered
ill-humored
angry
wrathful
“The tit for tat and pile-ons are embarrassing and pointless coming from otherwise intelligent, wise and thoughtful posters.”
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It’s just another way to disrupt a thread, which doesn’t require an actual troll...
All that is needed is to find a few folks that poke back when poked. If they poke back with a little added interest to discourage the pokers, it works even better.
Just keep poking them until they go away, or things get escalated to the point that if the poked were REALLY as bad as being claimed, they would have long ago been removed by a real admin moderator, and possibly turned over to the feds as a suspected enemy agent.
The pokers rely on loyalty, more than maliciousness to drive the resulting pile ons.
I find it Ironic that the ones doing the poking project the most concern about “thread disruption”.
Anon on, anon.