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His array of pings gave him away! I knew it was him from the time I saw it in "My Comments." It was no coincidence that the users listed were in the exact same order as the ones with the offending images.

mhking; rdb3; Trueblackman; Zionist Conspirator; hispanarepublicana; El Conservador; MikeHu; ...

Checkmate!

Yuppers.
Zap, got him.

Good! Thanks for the input. I knew it looked familiar.

I didn't realize there was an honor roll.

Usually these abusers have a fairly distinctive modus operandus: they register and immediately start numerous postings quite prolifically -- whereas the usual real novice would ease into postings, tentatively until he built up his confidence and credibility. Knowing this, forums could create an algorithm in which there is a limit to the number of posts one can make daily to the number of days since they've been registered plus one.

That doesn't affect the authentic poster -- who has probably also been lurking for quite a while before deciding to register to post. It does frustrate the abusers greatly. Since these abusers take great pride in their "cleverness," they make it easy to get caught because that is the fame and attention they want -- and can't get otherwise. They can not compete with everybody else on the same basis; a lot of the liberal/leftist protestors are this way also. Condemned to lives of unrelenting mediocrity and disdain, their only talent is their unique ability to inspire revulsion in others. That's why they have no life other in their distinctive perversion -- to offend and outrage others; that is their power trip, their triumph in life, their only fame and pride, but they cannot even claim that.

Eventually, I think these forums go the way of the Huffington innovation of prohibiting anonymous postings entirely. That is the source of the problem; nobody would do such sick things if they weren't given the protection of anonymity. The posters at Huffington, have no value anonymously -- since that is the only thing many of them have going for them -- their celebrity. Without that, their postings are obviously not noteworthy. On the other hand, those who are good at these forums, don't remain anonymous.

What even the abusive poster wants to do is to be known and to know others. Anonymity doesn't serve this purpose but creates nearly all of its problems. Even mainstream media must consider giving this source up as really being a great part of undermining their own credibility. Here they are supposedly being the legitimate source -- yet claiming their strength on their ability to get anonymous sources; they can't have it both ways -- and their advantage should be that they can get their information easier straight up. By thinking they have to cheat to win (the typical liberal/leftist strategy), they undermine their own advantage and credibility -- and credibility, is the name of the game.