Or should I get banned because I support my posts with lines of text in quotation marks? Three can play this silly game. I've been around long enough to know when people are posting just to upset the site. I started with Reggie way back when. If I'm not wanted here I'll just leave. I don't like being on thin ice by proud assholes. Solitary AKA Kiang---a wild ass.
Don't know what the specifics are on this, but think of it this way. You getting banned is a victory for them. So kick back and have a cool one and do what I do, which is mostly ignore them. Let the mods deal with it.
This is a message I got from proudass: For your general knowledge PM's are not accessible by mods or administrators, they are truly private messages. PM's are considered private and not to be published. Remember that PM's are at the consideration of the receiver, abuse of the PM system can be as simple as refusing to stop correspondence when asked by the receiver. That is considered harassment. Harassment or threats may be brought to the council's attention and action will be taken. I never published a PM, but sent it to administration because I feel I am being harassed by proudass. I've been at the infidel forum atheistsforums since it started with Reggie. If I have to I will get my lawyer on this. This is all because Phattmatt with a picture of him, and his girlfriend on the computer, and I claimed they were trolling the site. Then I was accused of trolling by copy and pasting a wall of text to provide information and to support my original posts. Am I the only one that realizes this? Solitary.
Yes, but it isn't about right or wrong, it is about who walks away from the fight. Righteous indignation i understand. You may be totally right, but this is a fight that you don't need to be involved in. They are not worth the angst, Sol. I like you and I value your posts, to not have you here would diminish the forum. Take the long view, my friend. They are not worth it.
This is what I received on my email:
Bull shit! He shows a picture of his girl friend on the computer with him standing next to him, if she wants to respond she can. Him and her are getting a big kick out of upsetting the forum which is trolling, and you are too cowardly to banned them after they say this about you: "fat hairy fuck with a furrowed scrotum!" . Solitary
First of all: it's not up to you to decide if and when someone must be banned or not.
Second: you don't know if that girl is in fact even aware of Matt's posting on here.
Third: posting wall of text copied and pasted from other sources without ever providing a link to the original text, like you always do, can also be considered as trolling.
Be careful Solitary, you're skating on thin ice.
I've been mostly mia for a couple days. Who is fatmat's girlfriend?
Quote from: PickelledEggs on May 23, 2014, 07:15:39 PM
I've been mostly mia for a couple days. Who is fatmat's girlfriend?
The one looking at a computer monitor with him looking silly along side her he put on for an avatar. Solitary.
I'm kind of with you solitary. This fuckwit seems to enjoy creating infighting and there seems to be a few to many here to eager to defend it. I damned sure don't need it. Use the ignore feature and leave this asswipe out of your life.
Yeah, but I'll just keep repeating what i said. Wind down and take a break. I think of you as a friend and I don't want you banned from here.
Practically by his request, I gave him pointers how to not seem like a spamming moron. He didn't take the hint and now he recruited more spamming morons?
Fuck. They're multiplying.
Sent via your mom.
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on May 23, 2014, 07:17:53 PM
I'm kind of with you solitary. This fuckwit seems to enjoy creating infighting and there seems to be a few to many here to eager to defend it. I damned sure don't need it. Use the ignore feature and leave this asswipe out of your life.
^This. Let the mods deal with it. Use the "ignore" button, or whatever.
It's hard for me to do when he has friends on the staff like proudass that threaten me with emails and personal messages. I don't suffer fools gladly! Solitary
Thanks guys for your support! It means a lot to this old man. I have never backed down from a fight and I never will. Solitary
Honestly I didn't even know he was still spamming, let alone he recruited a spamming girlfriend. If it's true, I've been too busy to notice or care
Sent via your mom.
*Mod hat on.
You are a valuable member of the forum, Solitary. No one wants to ban you. However, the staff has asked all the members of the forum including you to include sources whenever they quote something they did not personally write. There are valid reasons for this including copy write infringement concerns. Posting a private message on the other hand is a violation of the rules. Long time members are given a great deal of leeway most of the time, but they are not immune to the rules. Continued violation of the rules or repeatedly doing something you have been asked by the staff to not do could eventually get you banned. As far as PM'ing the staff I haven't received any PM's from anyone lately. Nor do I read every post on the forum. If you have a concern about another member PM the staff of your concerns.
Yeah, but pick your battles. This one you can avoid.
Solitary, I started taking his bullshit personal having been homeless, but over a short time realized he's not one bit different from the asswipes in every shelter who think they're "special" and it's always someone else's fault and everyone there owes them something.
Use the ignore funtion, ignore any and all PM's he might send you and just automatically forward them to staff. I wouldn't bother reading them.
I damn sure don't want you to leave, but I can certainly understand the frustration.
Please don't get banned Solitary, you're universally liked and this place would be lesser without you, just ignore them like I do. Embrace the paragon path man!
Wow, universally liked.. Even jesus couldn't accomplish universal likedness. :eek: :lol:
Solitary is the new jesus, except better, he likes alien chicks
Now we're getting weird..... :eek:
What? Grin getting weird? :eek: NO WAY DUDE! :lol:
I've been weird, you should have realized that by now
Only because of friends like you I'm not leaving.
I think it is ridiculous that a person comes here obviously being a troll and all they can see are my posts and not the troll or trolls. Here is what they don't know and I do: Fidel_Castronaut is an old friend from the forums that saw through his BS.
From Phattmatt:
RE: May I request a maximum one year ban? Sound familiar?
From Fidel:
Fuck me, what a fucking nut job he turned out to be (how sad do you have to be to create that many sock accounts)?
Good riddance.
Phatt Matt s Wrote: Is it that much of a chore for you to say, matt, this post irritates me, don't make another like it, ok? Same old crap like we get, while the mods get all in a tither about no references regarding quotes.
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659185
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659213
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659235
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659238
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659243
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659248
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659251
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659255
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659259
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659267
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659274
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25711-po...#pid659276
And that's just from this thread alone.
(That last one is especially interesting. I should take that guy's advice, if no-one else's.)
To say I'm upset is an understatement. It wouldn't bother me so much if PhattMatt got the same attention I get from A staff member that threatens me, and it was just explained to me I was breaking a rule about not posting resources. I thought by showing it was a quote from the internet was all that was required. If something is on the internet and can be copied it can't be an infringement as far as I know. I'll find out from my lawyer. In all the years I have been at forums I have never seen an obvious troll upset a forum like this and get away with it! I sure as hell don't like my internet address used for making threats to me, benign or other wise! Especially by some one who is a proud ass. I think he is an ass, and it includes the hole. :fU: Solitary
PhattMatt has been a topic of discussion in the tower since he joined. He was told to tone it down, and as far as I can tell he did. I say as far as I can tell because I don't bother to read most of his posts. I am well aware of his brief foray on the .org site though. Your posts I do try to read though. If he threatened you with violence in a PM forward the PM to me, and I'll ban his ass right now.
Quote from: Solitary on May 23, 2014, 08:47:50 PM
He was talking about my alien girlfriend: (http://i.imgur.com/o0seIBt.jpg) (http://imgur.com/o0seIBt) Solitary
Hey! I'm the blue-alien lover here, you get Jack remember? That's part of our treaty dammit!
Liara is awesome btw
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on May 23, 2014, 08:42:58 PM
PhattMatt has been a topic of discussion in the tower since he joined. He was told to tone it down, and as far as I can tell he did. I say as far as I can tell because I don't bother to read most of his posts. I am well aware of his brief foray on the .org site though. Your posts I do try to read though. If he threatened you with violence in a PM forward the PM to me, and I'll ban his ass right now.
He is not the one that goes by proudass on his avatar. And I don't accuse people of plagiarism just because they don't give a source for what is in quotes that makes it obvious it isn't. I don't have to prove my knowledge of biology, mathematics, or physics to anyone, and to be accused of plagiarism when it is my word unless it has quotation marks is infuriating after all the hard work I did learning about the subjects. I got tons of flaming because of what I first posted here on physics, and when I used the internet to show I was correct is not plagiarism whether anyone believes it or not. I have to leave know because I'm getting madder as I post and am just about ready to go to another forum where PhattMatt got banned, and a friend I had here is there now. Too many punks here for me anymore. I need a break!
Good to hear :), I'll take Liara, and maybe Tali. Surprised neither of us went for Miranda.
Don't leave us though, we'd miss you. Might I recommend shooting some Cerberus guys to vent?
hot damn, she almost makes me want to go back to humans
Quote from: GrinningYMIR on May 23, 2014, 09:20:48 PM
hot damn, she almost makes me want to go back to humans
Her personality though... she is even more annoying the Kaiden.
Quote from: Solitary on May 23, 2014, 07:09:01 PM
This is a message I got from proudass: For your general knowledge PM's are not accessible by mods or administrators, they are truly private messages. PM's are considered private and not to be published. Remember that PM's are at the consideration of the receiver, abuse of the PM system can be as simple as refusing to stop correspondence when asked by the receiver. That is considered harassment. Harassment or threats may be brought to the council's attention and action will be taken. I never published a PM, but sent it to administration because I feel I am being harassed by proudass. I've been at the infidel forum atheistsforums since it started with Reggie. If I have to I will get my lawyer on this. This is all because Phattmatt with a picture of him, and his girlfriend on the computer, and I claimed they were trolling the site. Then I was accused of trolling by copy and pasting a wall of text to provide information and to support my original posts. Am I the only one that realizes this? Solitary.
Wrong. You published it in the thread "message from staff" in the Introduction section. That's why I closed that thread, deleted the content of your post and left there the link to the forum's rules.
Holy Asgard. PhattMatt has made another site all about him. He must be a truly fat and happy troll after all this.
I couldn't understand how he lasted as long as he did at af.org, nor do I understand how he has managed to stick here as long as he has. He has a single agenda to bring all topics of conversation around to him. Too bad The Pope isn't here to resurrect his "This Week in Trolling" thread. Then Matt would get so much attention that even his ego would finally feel stroked.
Whatever you feel about this recent...thing...doesn't really matter. I mean well when I say that. I haven't paid much attention to this particular phenomenon, but I've seen enough to decide I don't like it. That being said, I, like many others see it as an attention whore, so I ignore it for the most part. IIRC I only made two other post about it and that was asking a question about the ramifications of calling it, and telling it that if it had to ask if it needs to be banned that it probably needs to be banned. I feel like this thing is best dealt with by denying it the attention it seeks. Once we ignore it all the mods need to do is mop up the mess.
Ok, so let me get this straight.. You guys are in relationships with fake, virtual women from some game world?
Oh yeah. I'm the weird one around here no doubt. I actually talk to real live flesh and blood women...except the one with the African customs thing, but that's ALL in the past now so let's not talk about that anymore. You guys are WEIRD! :lol:
I had about 2 conversations with the clown. That was all I needed to see before he went to the ol ignore list. He'll fuck up enough to alert the Internet "authorities"... tic....toc..tic....toc
I don't understand the problem, but then I don't even open threads he starts. I read a few of his posts early on, and decided he had nothing to offer but nonsense. The sad part is that he's taking up time and space. There has been a drop in new interesting threads because everyone's energy has been used up confronting him. This is what he wants. He's taking control of the forum. And the forum suffers for it.
If I were a newbie stopping by to lurk and saw people spending so much time discussing his bullshit, I'd move on and write this place off as a pointless forum devoted mostly to threads of petty crap. Forum activity has been low since the meltdown, but I'd prefer an atmosphere of not much happening to an atmosphere of petty communication. We should welcome newcomers looking to engage in thoughtful communication and discourage or ban the trolls in a timely fashion before they wreck the joint.
I hope to stop posting nonsense and become a contributing member of the forum who doesnt provoke or offend anyone or break the rules. Thank you for letting me know how offensive I am. Believe it or not, I'm surprised.
I want to change
He's not worth the trouble of all the broohaha. Use ignore folks. It's pretty simple. Pull up your forum profile till you get to 'modify profile' where you can add this turd to your ignore list then every post he makes will simply say, 'You are ignoring this member' and gives you the option to view the post if you want to.
if mods want to keep hiding behind "I don't read every post" even after repeated complaints then perhaps they need to drop the staff status and stop pretending to give a shit about the well being of the forum. I understand the need for leeway and appreciate it as do most of us, but when the leeway is used to manipulate this forum maybe it's time to change the leeway rules.
If I get banned for breaching rules I can live with it, but letting someone consistently breach it till there are entire threads dedicated to complaints about one individual and staff ignores it then to me it seems it's time to find new staff.
I can hardly believe what I'm reading.
It feels like a bad dream but I dont think I is
Okay, I don't usually feel the need to ban someone like this guy... but with all of this drama and on top of the fact that I can't get over the feeling like this guy is a hardcore troll... seriously. I banned his ass.
Seriously tired of this attention whoring shit that I've been reading. I sincerely apologize to those that had to deal with him. I was up visiting my grandma for the last week and have been super busy.
Solitary, you are a extremely valued member of this forum and I would hate to see you go over this ordeal. I know that the request to add sources upsets you a bit, but the request wasn't intended to accuse you of plagiarism. It is a general request from me and the other staff to make sure that sources are credited properly and it shouldn't be a tough task to copy-paste the source.
Anyways.... fuck, seriously... that dude needs help.
He's gone and all 50 ips he posted from (that is also suspicious)
Quote from: wolf39us on May 24, 2014, 08:09:58 AM
He's gone and all 50 ips he posted from (that is also suspicious)
Ha, I think you just blocked half of the public libraries in the Twin Cities.
haha probably... but if it keeps him out.
THANK YOU, WOLF.
Good. I'm glad he's banned, but he'll likely find another way in. Fucking moron.
He will find a way to sock puppet the fuck out of this forum just like he did the last one.
By the time I get to read this thread, the troll is already banned... oh well, missed on the fun :wall:
What the hell are you guys talking about?
Quote from: drunkenshoe on May 24, 2014, 10:39:54 AM
Thanks for the line above, Wolf. (Besides all the bullshit.)
lol not sure I follow... thanks?
I'm not sure if that's supposed to be sarcasm or something.
You know what would be cool? All new members have an ignore button by their name for their first month so if they're jerks, roly holers, trolls, etc., we don't have to make the long, lonely walk to our ignore lists by ourselves.
I have to occasionally go clear mine out just to remind myself I don't hate everyone. :think:
I just ignore twats the old-fashioned way.
Holy shit. 50 IPs?
Sent via your mom.
Quote from: PickelledEggs on May 24, 2014, 04:52:20 PM
Holy shit. 50 IPs?
Sent via your mom.
Im guessing because he was homeless that most of those were from coffee shops, McDonald's, and other such things. A lot of places these days offer free wifi or have unsecured wifi, so it's not implausible that he used over 50 IPs over his short time here.
Quote from: The Skeletal Atheist on May 25, 2014, 02:51:18 AM
Im guessing because he was homeless that most of those were from coffee shops, McDonald's, and other such things. A lot of places these days offer free wifi or have unsecured wifi, so it's not implausible that he used over 50 IPs over his short time here.
Oh I thought he was only thinking about choosing to be homeless...
That would make sense though.
Sent via your mom.
Quote from: The Skeletal Atheist on May 25, 2014, 02:51:18 AM
Im guessing because he was homeless that most of those were from coffee shops, McDonald's, and other such things. A lot of places these days offer free wifi or have unsecured wifi, so it's not implausible that he used over 50 IPs over his short time here.
Yeah. I've been doing that myself lately and it totally sucks. I can't post in my underpants with my dick in my hand anymore. They actually complained.
Quote from: the_antithesis on May 25, 2014, 12:55:28 PM
Yeah. I've been doing that myself lately and it totally sucks. I can't post in my underpants with my dick in my hand anymore. They actually complained.
They complained? Jerks!!!
Quote from: The Skeletal Atheist on May 25, 2014, 02:51:18 AM
Im guessing because he was homeless that most of those were from coffee shops, McDonald's, and other such things. A lot of places these days offer free wifi or have unsecured wifi, so it's not implausible that he used over 50 IPs over his short time here.
Him being homeless is/was most certainly a lie.
I wouldn't have taken anything that idiot said personally or at face value.
AF.com is much better now that he's gone, and nobody should feel guilty about confronting that lunatic about it.
Anyway, my advice, if anyone cares, is to put this whole clusterfuck behind them and forget him completely. In a week, you'll forget he even existed.
HIYA FIDEL!! You old so and so. Who you talking about? Good to see you again.
Quote from: Fidel_Castronaut on May 28, 2014, 09:17:53 AM
Him being homeless is/was most certainly a lie.
I wouldn't have taken anything that idiot said personally or at face value.
AF.com is much better now that he's gone, and nobody should feel guilty about confronting that lunatic about it.
Anyway, my advice, if anyone cares, is to put this whole clusterfuck behind them and forget him completely. In a week, you'll forget he even existed.
Thanks for the advice Fidel! I didn't realize you were still at this forum, I thought you left. Anyway I still remember you from the original with Reggie. Solitary AKA Kiang.
Quote from: aitm on May 28, 2014, 10:02:52 AM
HIYA FIDEL!! You old so and so. Who you talking about? Good to see you again.
Precisely.
I'm doing alright aitm, yourself?
I'm still about. I lurk here quite often believe it or not. But (un)fortunately I'm now a mod over at AF.org which takes a lot of my 'interwebz' time. I'm also in the process of setting up a wedding for me and my fiancé for next year which is becoming stressful!
Anyway, I'll hopefully be posting every now and again :)
Quote from: Solitary on May 28, 2014, 10:20:55 AM
Thanks for the advice Fidel! I didn't realize you were still at this forum, I thought you left. Anyway I still remember you from the original with Reggie. Solitary AKA Kiang.
Hey Sol, Of course I remember you :) I haven't been gone that long!
Reading through this thread, I'm glad you stayed. You've been on AF.com as long as I can remember and it would have been a massive detriment had you left.
You're just saying that because it's true. :wink2: :flowers: :biggrin2: Solitary now.
Quote from: Fidel_Castronaut on May 28, 2014, 09:17:53 AM
Him being homeless is/was most certainly a lie.
I wouldn't have taken anything that idiot said personally or at face value.
AF.com is much better now that he's gone, and nobody should feel guilty about confronting that lunatic about it.
Anyway, my advice, if anyone cares, is to put this whole clusterfuck behind them and forget him completely. In a week, you'll forget he even existed.
Who?
I don't think he is homeless either, but very well may have been trying to set people up to send him money. A few people offered to help me, but I've never asked and never accepted it here though I do appreciate the gestures.
Yup, we have out happy little home back and there ought to be much rejoicing.
matts girlfriends in on it now. You're funny!
Are you having any fun like I am?
OK, now the twat has been banned for good.
Topic locked.