Thanks. I wish I could put a little copyright sign in my usertitle. :)

HA! And this lamp, I need this lamp.

Here you go. Copy and paste it. ©

Sweet! Thanks. :)

But you're complaining about their behavior in the politics forum, where Redux is orders of magnitude better than Merc.Redux's volume is almost uniformly responses to other posts. Why doesn't Merc get a +20?

I think it's fairly obvious that TheMercenary is generally trolling in the politics forum, and more explicitly trolling Redux. I don't think that the usual prescription of ignoring trolls until they go away would work, because, as you say, Merc participates in other forums, and isn't likely to be ignored there.

If anyone else wanted to engage TheMercenary in the politics forum (and I did), he would be just as trollish to them. If anyone else engaged Redux, they would get a well researched and thoughtful response. I don't see how a response to monster's questionnaire affects that.

Totally agree. I like Merc, I get along just fine with him, but not if we discuss politics. As soon as it is even vageuly related to politics he turns into a total troll. I pretty much never see redux start this shit. I see him respond an awful lot. Maybe sometimes he could refrain from responding. But it still seems grotesquely unfair to target him because he can't refrain from fighting back, instead of the person who keeps provoking him.



[eta] not everyone wants to share their personal life. Some people just want to come and discuss stuff. Clearly the main focus of Redux's interests lies in political discussion. It is really not his fault that the only area he wants to be in is home to the resident troll.

I agree with HM and Dana. :twocents:

[eta] and I agree with Dana's eta. :)

I agree.
My opinion is based on volume. While redux and Cman seem to sit here all day long bickering, a week or more goes by between Mercs trolling.
More specifically, every current even topic turns into a redux/Cman argument, then a few days later Merc comes along and bumps every thread they've been fighting in with a popcorn smilie or a stupid remark about democrats - highlighting (annoyingly) all the threads they've already fucked up.

One must excise. Cancer itself is rampant cellular division and unorganized growth.

Redux and Bruce don't always agree, but they seem to do just fine when talking about the things they don't agree upon. *shrugs*

• Current Politics thread: "I am right, you are wrong. Moreover, you are a bad person for being wrong." Repeat.
• Desired Politics thread: "Hey, what does everyone think of this development?" "Well, from my POV, it looks like this. How about you?"

Please stop trying to convince the other guy. You'll never win, and the rest of us will be collateral damage. You're not sticking up for your mom's honor, ffs. You're not a bad person for letting someone else believe something that you think is incorrect.

This is you, now:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png


Can you see how ridiculous it is?

That. ^

I love that one.

If you ever see me engaged in that kind of internet argument, it is because there is something bothering me in my real life that I don't want to think about. I can't speak for everybody but I think this is more like a distraction/addiction than an actual desire to do any type of communication.

The following is my own opinion and does not represent an official position or opinion of the management, unless UT says so:

Okay. I've read through this, and I see calls for the Moderators to do something we are not here to do ... censor content.

The Cellar is what it is ... a community. Communities have their ups and downs, arguments, making-ups, conservatives, liberals, swingers, people being supportive, divisive, rarely just plain not caring, why would we show up here otherwise.

The administrator and moderators are not here to be the graphite to your uranium. There is a reason "insufferably annoying" is not further defined.

Go back about your business of posting. Nothing to see here, move along.

Amen. That right there is why we are The Cellar.