Winckle wrote:Karl wrote:paging
Hey Karl, can you check whether fisher is an alt of shyguy64, and ban as appropriate? TIA.
Fisher is not (at least detectably) an alt. The posts don't appear to be automated, queued, or automatically generated. They post using a normal browser.
As far as I can tell they are just a weird person, like some bizzaro-world SONM equivalent of RogueLeader.
I doubt that the person behind that keyboard is trying to frustrate you all. Maybe they are legitimately strange, maybe they are adopting a strange persona for fun.
Probably it's the latter, but I've seen plenty of people online over the years who are just straight-up the former. Either way, is that bannable?
I don't see this as some kind of "2016-era Politics Thread" situation, where a member is deliberately making the thread all about them in a way that makes it difficult to have other discourse. They are just... posting. I read this thread religiously and it doesn't bother me at all. What actually derails the thread is the 20 posts worth of follow-ups and parodies, but that's a choice you are all making as a subcommunity.
I think it would be pretty sad if I had to thread ban someone to stop you all from rounding on them. I think that would be an indictment of our community, which I would have hoped could live and let live, or at least use the ignore function.