MOD PLEASE LOCK THIS THREAD, we all know why

Personally, I went from putting him on foe status to now enjoying reading his posts to see who he is going to piss off next.

just have some fun reading some of the dialog because these forums are boring without some guy picking fights with people.

I just wanted to pass on the note that I have 1.2 million Youtube followers... not counting the other sports blogs and sites I run. Every year, I come back to the game and these forums hoping to be able to recommend the past time I used to love ... but alas, I see that it is worse than ever.

The fact that you enjoy seeing him piss people off and take pleasure in him abusing people and picking fights is a perfect example of how depressing this place has become.

It is just sad that an abusive, deceitful, antagonizing person like this is allowed to continue perpetuating his awful behavior for years on end. It is really quit disturbing.

Good luck to you all, I truly hope this place improves in the future.

Many people have tried to put an end to this guys tactics but Strat chooses to ignore it all. Many, many, many people have reported him but nothing changes.

No,your writing is not the issue. It is your not always understanding where other people are coming from with their forum posts, leading to unnecessary conflict. This is all about the topic, showing newbies that it takes all kinds to make the world go around and don't let one guys passive aggressiveness scare them away.

What a shock, more vague ambiguity with no specifics. Here's a free lesson for you, BJ: if you want to actually make your point, you need specific examples. If you can't provide them, as you clearly can't provide them now, your arguments ring hollow and false. If I was passive-aggressive with F33 in any way, and I wasn't, you would have shown me where. So, I'm done with you and your erroneous arguments and un-supported hostile accusations.

So, welcome to my foes list. You won't be missed. And I'm done with this thread; I suggest everybody return to the thread topic.

Not going to spoon feed you examples when you and everyone else can just review some of the topics, involving you, that Strat has not deleted. You can go on believing that there is no history of this available simply because I did not copy/paste them for you.

Badjam, let me repost something I wrote elsewhere THAT WAS REMOVED! Note I don't say a single negative thing about the person posting, but only about the fictional persona he has created. I even say the actual poster might be a wonderful guy, which is entirely possible.

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first removed post:

L.Strether is the name of the male protagonist of one of Henry James's "late" novels. Earlier in his career, James wrote in a more accessible style, but eventually his style became extremely complex and difficult. L. Strether's posts are essentially a weak parody of James's style. L. Strether is not a person -- it (not "he") is a persona. Yes, there is an actual human being who types his posts, but his whole point is that he is creating an online "character." It has nothing to do with him. Everyone here should understand that ... and stop bothering with it. He invented a character -- a snooty, obnoxious, contentious, unpleasant character who writes in a pseudo-ornate "fancy" style -- who has nothing to do with him, necessarily, as a person. Was he a teacher, as he says? Maybe -- but that would be the person typing the posts, not the fictional "L. Strether" who signs them.

Seriously, everybody -- I'm right about this. Please take it to heart when you read these posts by a fictional character invented by the person(s) who type(s) the posts. I have no more fear of offending "him" than I do of offending Huckleberry Finn (or, more appropriately, Tom Sawyer). And I block "him," because it's just too tedious and annoying otherwise. This says nothing about the person typing, who might be a wonderful guy; but the persona he has created is a well-known drag (to quote George Harrison in A Hard Day's Night: "She's a drag -- a well-known drag. We turn off the sound when she's on the telly and say rude things").

second removed post (edited for clarity):

generally I'm not interested in what a fictional character has to say unless I've chosen the novel or TV show or movie or play -- Hamlet, yes, very interested in what he has to say ... and even Don Draper

but in the meantime I've thought of a couple more adjectives that must have been on the list when The Typist (as I'll refer to the non-fictional person posting) was creating the fictional character L. Strether: patronizing and pedantic. If you ever want a handy thing to post in response to this fictional character's nit-picking provocations, I suggest the following:

"This is the sort of thing that gives mindless pedantry a bad name." -- Gore Vidal

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I'd appreciate it if everyone would copy this into their own word doc, so it's still there after The Typist has it removed again (one must never call his bluff)