On Anonymity, Moderated Fora, and Usenet

"romeomike" wrote in message
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Unfortunately, killfiling Maxwell hasn't totally wiped him from my view,
though it sure has cleaned up my downloaded posts :-)
Bertie, why spar with someone who obviously has "issues"? He's not just in
it for the sport. The nature of his comments suggests some sort of
pathology involved. It makes it almost sad to respond to his posts. It's
like taunting a staggering drunk. Please give it up. You don't need the
last word on this one.

What kind of issues Mike, and why did you cross post your reply?

"HARRY POTTER" wrote in message
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wrote:
So pathetic as to make excuses for the behaviour of an ass?

Do you blame rape victims for the crime too? How about leaving your
car parked outside overnight? Is that 'asking' some lowlife dirtball
to come along and vandalize it? Where does personal accountability
fit into your world view?

Since when is saying mean things on the internet a crime equal to rape?


It's folks with your mindset that create a society of immediate
gratification at the cost of long term good, i.e., if I want it then I
should have it...if I want to slam someone in a cowardly fashion, I
should do that too.

uh wut


And he never said he couldn't take it.

Then why did he feel the need to bring up, knowing it would derail the
thread into a pity party for him.

Good luck Harry, but you are arguing with one of Bertie's sock puppets.

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:11:39 -0400, Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries droned:
Maxwell Isn't Smart wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:55:56 +0000, Bertie the Bunyip droned:
"Maxwell" wrote:
"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote...
Dudley Henriques wrote:

He's still around, BTW. if you feel the need to push his buttons. He
was even more entertaining than Maxie!

Even got his own honorary group.
alt.fan.beavis-and-basshole

Glad you could stop by Bertie, and firm up the working relationship
between you and Dudley for all to see. Now is a good time to advertise
that you BOTH like to make sport of deliberately pushing someone's
buttons.

Well, I do, Dudley can speak for himself.

Cool! But then all the smart ones already knew it. Nice reminder, very
timely.

Yes. BTW, you got more buttons than an old adding machine.

He's got more buttons than a freakin' magpie!...

Based on one of his earlier posts to Dudley, I'd say he's less innocuous
than you make him out to be.

I must be slipping.

Dudley Henriques was thinking very hard :

The truth is that BOTH Usenet and moderated forums can be useful...

EOT

Jim Logajan wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Sparring? You're kidding, right? Some people play solitaire while
they're idling away on th enet, I whack k00ks!

Kind of like hunting rocks in a forest using repeated use of herbicides.
Kills the forest but the rocks are never eradicated.


You're obviously unfamiliar with my loon mallet.

Bertie

"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in
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"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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I'm really at a total loss as to how to answer this question from
you. If I thought you actually cared about our loss and wanted to
know I would gladly discuss my son with you. I'm sorry but the
trust just isn't there between us for me to take the chance.

--
Dudley Henriques

How old was he Dudley, and when did he pass? Hardly a discussion.

I wonder why you wouldn't want anyone to know?

Um, why is this irrelevant bit of information so important to you?


Please help me to understand what loss have you suffered that
requires this
sort of constant and incredibly insensitive attack?


What is irrelevant and insensitive about asking his age, and how long
since he had passed?


Fjukkktard.

Bertie

"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in
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"romeomike" wrote in message
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Unfortunately, killfiling Maxwell hasn't totally wiped him from my
view, though it sure has cleaned up my downloaded posts :-)
Bertie, why spar with someone who obviously has "issues"? He's not
just in it for the sport. The nature of his comments suggests some
sort of pathology involved. It makes it almost sad to respond to his
posts. It's like taunting a staggering drunk. Please give it up. You
don't need the last word on this one.

What kind of issues Mike, and why did you cross post your reply?



He menas he thinks you're an idiot.


Alles klar?


bertie

"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in :


"HARRY POTTER" wrote in message
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wrote:
So pathetic as to make excuses for the behaviour of an ass?

Do you blame rape victims for the crime too? How about leaving your
car parked outside overnight? Is that 'asking' some lowlife dirtball
to come along and vandalize it? Where does personal accountability
fit into your world view?

Since when is saying mean things on the internet a crime equal to rape?


It's folks with your mindset that create a society of immediate
gratification at the cost of long term good, i.e., if I want it then I
should have it...if I want to slam someone in a cowardly fashion, I
should do that too.

uh wut


And he never said he couldn't take it.

Then why did he feel the need to bring up, knowing it would derail the
thread into a pity party for him.

Good luck Harry, but you are arguing with one of Bertie's sock puppets.





Wow! How did I not know that?

Bertie

HARRY POTTER wrote in
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Jim Logajan wrote:

That's sort of fine - but you make a mistake in presuming everyone
must have the same motivations. Or that only your motivations are
valid. There is also a certain unfortunate, if not absurdist, aspect
in watching asocial and antisocial people make posts to Usenet -
which is an inherently _socializing_ mechanism.


It has to be one or the other, because it can't be both. This group
can either be a place where people put aside their personal social
ambitions and just discuss aviation, or a pilot chit-chat club where
everyone just pats each other on the back. Personally, if I wanted the
latter, I'd persue it in a non-internet setting.

This place has kind of settled on a half-way point. If MX were to make
a post saying the sky is blue, he'd get 100 responses saying he's an
idiot. If someone like Bob Hoover made a post saying the sky is pink
and green polka dotted (not that he'd ever do that necessarily), he
may get one or two responses politely suggesting the premise of his
post may very well be possibly incorrect, if any.

People's social ambitions cause them to want to be "e-friends" with
the "big hitters" of this group, so they get a pass when they post
dumb ****. No one particularity needs the friendship of an unpopular
posters like MX (or even myself), so those posters get the the
ridicule they deserve and then some.

Theres this one internet forum I go to where everyone posts with a
pseudoname. The membership is in the 100,000's of thousands of
members. Because of this, no one ever tried to rise above to become an
"internet superstar", so discussions are very rarely self-serving. You
don't see people "bullying" weakly accepted posters for acceptance,
because it's a pipe dream to think you could achieve such a thing.

When I first started reading usenet, the first thing I noticed was how
people seemed to jump into discussions with self-serving reasons,
rather than discussion-serving reasons I'm used to seeing on internet
forums. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but it seemed like I saw
a lot of people jumping into a discussion to post their opinion when
it didn't really seem to fit into the discussion very well. A usenet
thread read like a collection of individual personal opinion
broadcasts that didn't really go anywhere as a whole. It was very
common to see 20 replies where the same thing was being said, the only
difference being the poster's real name in the header, and that
poster's "cred" material in the signature. Whereas on internet forums,
I was used to seeing a particular point being made once, with
subsequent posters building upon that point.

Also, since
aviation is so small, its a lot more easy to get yourself noticed,
which I'm guessing is the reason many here post with their real
name. They hope some reputation they earn here will carry over to
real life. Either that, of they hope that their real life reputation
will carry over online. Either way, to me it's just sad and
pathetic.

It appears that in your last paragraph you crossed the line from not
being here to making friends to using your anonymity to make a
sweeping generalization against every person who ever used their real
names. A classic flame or troll. The irony is that you claim in the
same post how you don't see anonymous posters as agents of chaos.

Just because I'm saying something you don't agree with doesn't mean
I'm "trolling".



TROLL!


Bertie

"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in message
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What is irrelevant and insensitive about asking his age, and how long
since he had passed?




Not to mention his refusal to answer it.