Having been told offline about some of this individuals more unpleasant characteristics, I hereby don my hair shirt and ask forgiveness for defending him.
What exactly did he do besides being a bit of an arse. I have never posted on any of his threads, but have read a few. They didn't seem that bad. Has he really been abusive outside of the forum? If so then good riddance to him.
will someone please let me know exactly what has been going on as i noticed from an earlier page that he had email notification for one of my threads and I rebuffed him a few weeks ago as i didn't want to speak to him
If someone receives nasty, abusive or threatening emails from an email address, stick a complaint into the ISP/email providers abuse people. The ISP has to take it seriously - if they don't they could be jointly culpable, and can remove the persons email address or ISP account.
Trolls are people who roam forums stirring up trouble - they are more prominent during school holidays. Most are obvious, some are clever. Ro was more than a troll.
If someone could forward me the e-mails that'd be good ).
seemed like a troll to me, not that amusing really, didn't see anything too offensive though but only really saw the thread or two he started himself. Just seemed a little weird really.
I suppose someone like this really should be pitied. Not felt sorry for, pitied. He clearly has mental problems and has probably suffered abuse as a child. Most likely he was bullied, probably worse and he sees this as a way to bolster his very low self esteem.
I'm sure a psychologist would easily pinpoint his many failings as a man that make him behave this way. It must be tough to have been emotionaly carstrated in the way he clearly has. None of which is an excuse for his behaviour but I think that instead of feeling angry about him people would be better to pity him. I know I do. For all the ill will I wish him, I pity him because he is pathetic. He probably trys to project that onto the people he upsets and exploits but all he's doing is reinforcing those things about himself and even if deep down he knows it he's too pathetic to actually do anything about it.
As Mr T once said (on numerous occasions) I pity the fool.
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sean
thankyou
you have my total support on this too
Sean I take back every word.
JJ hand me that bazooka will you.....
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(Scuse language been drinking Shels witches brew - elderberry)
Regarding the forum notifications, you may be making the same mistake that I made.
For some reason on the my forum page for somebody, RW have put your forum notifications on the bottom.
I am fairly certain we don't have stalkers who know what threads we want to be notified about.
Sean: if you have read this far, would you mind looking at my website bug regarding the removal of forum notification. Thanks in advance.
The person in question wasn't a troll they were something the term for which would not sit prettily on these pages.
Trolls are people who roam forums stirring up trouble - they are more prominent during school holidays. Most are obvious, some are clever. Ro was more than a troll.
C'mon - they can't all be teachers...
seemed like a troll to me, not that amusing really, didn't see anything too offensive though but only really saw the thread or two he started himself. Just seemed a little weird really.
Apparently he's gotten up to other stuff off the forums and it seems like a good decision was made.
Ro used to post a lot(!) on uk.rec.running. From what has been mentioned here this sounds too familiar, the approach, the themes, the stories, etc.
I'm sure a psychologist would easily pinpoint his many failings as a man that make him behave this way. It must be tough to have been emotionaly carstrated in the way he clearly has. None of which is an excuse for his behaviour but I think that instead of feeling angry about him people would be better to pity him. I know I do. For all the ill will I wish him, I pity him because he is pathetic. He probably trys to project that onto the people he upsets and exploits but all he's doing is reinforcing those things about himself and even if deep down he knows it he's too pathetic to actually do anything about it.
As Mr T once said (on numerous occasions) I pity the fool.
...and "You ain't getting me on no plane sucker."
Could someone send me the mails.
I remember asking on some other thread, but nobody told me anything...