On 10/16/2015 1:42 PM, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
rickman wrote:
On 10/16/2015 12:19 PM, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
rickman wrote:
On 10/16/2015 3:42 AM, AndyW wrote:
On 16/10/2015 01:17, Sal M. O'Nella wrote:

"rickman" wrote in message ...

Why is it so difficult to resist turning this group into a cacophony of
babbling? It is hard to get more than a small handful in a conversation
that help many of us learn, but one idiot posts some garbage and gets a
dozen replies.

I know people have talked about how they successfully ignored the idiot
and shooed him away. Why can't we do that in this group too? Just
resist responding to him no matter what he says. Then if anyone does
respond to the idiot, consider those posts to be from idiots too and
ignore them as well.

In URA we just all just agreed not to respond to his posts and it all
went quiet. Occasionally people slipped and were reminded by the group.
Unfortunately it did seem to push him into other NGs..... sorry about
that chaps.

The thing is, in the past I have found him helpful and informative but
of late it is all abuse, faux indignation and starting threads with
innocent inquiries as titles and then turning them into arguements.
He saw me as the instigator of 'Project Shun' and so completely ignores
me now so I will just have to live without the nasty personal abuse
which he keeps denying but it is all archived.

He is on a roll this morning. I sure wish we could do a project shun in
all the groups he posts to. But there are a number of posters who seem
to live for arguing with him. I have to admit his BS is so bad sometimes
I respond to him even when I know I shouldn't.

So why don't we do a "project shun"?

The Project Shun we ran in ukra was a great success, he spent a short time
in full-blown hysterics over being ignored before buggering off. Sadly, for
you guys, he buggered off to rra.* in search of fresh meat. But yes, I
think a new Project Shun is in order, it's time we drove this mentally
defective clown out of groups where us good and decent folk are.

I don't know about the "good and decent folk" part, but yes, I'm ready
for project shun. Maybe it would be easiest if I just quit this group?

That would be a shame, as then Gareth would have achieved what he wanted
and what he set out to do in fouling yet another newsgroup.

You are as big a problem as Gareth is and I don't recall any useful
content from you. I have added Gareth to my kill file and now I am
adding you as well. I will also add those who post abusive replies to
Gareth or anyone else. If that doesn't improve this group I'm just
going to leave.

--

Rick

rickman wrote:
On 10/16/2015 1:42 PM, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
rickman wrote:
On 10/16/2015 12:19 PM, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
rickman wrote:
On 10/16/2015 3:42 AM, AndyW wrote:
On 16/10/2015 01:17, Sal M. O'Nella wrote:

"rickman" wrote in message ...

Why is it so difficult to resist turning this group into a cacophony of
babbling? It is hard to get more than a small handful in a conversation
that help many of us learn, but one idiot posts some garbage and gets a
dozen replies.

I know people have talked about how they successfully ignored the idiot
and shooed him away. Why can't we do that in this group too? Just
resist responding to him no matter what he says. Then if anyone does
respond to the idiot, consider those posts to be from idiots too and
ignore them as well.

In URA we just all just agreed not to respond to his posts and it all
went quiet. Occasionally people slipped and were reminded by the group.
Unfortunately it did seem to push him into other NGs..... sorry about
that chaps.

The thing is, in the past I have found him helpful and informative but
of late it is all abuse, faux indignation and starting threads with
innocent inquiries as titles and then turning them into arguements.
He saw me as the instigator of 'Project Shun' and so completely ignores
me now so I will just have to live without the nasty personal abuse
which he keeps denying but it is all archived.

He is on a roll this morning. I sure wish we could do a project shun in
all the groups he posts to. But there are a number of posters who seem
to live for arguing with him. I have to admit his BS is so bad sometimes
I respond to him even when I know I shouldn't.

So why don't we do a "project shun"?

The Project Shun we ran in ukra was a great success, he spent a short time
in full-blown hysterics over being ignored before buggering off. Sadly, for
you guys, he buggered off to rra.* in search of fresh meat. But yes, I
think a new Project Shun is in order, it's time we drove this mentally
defective clown out of groups where us good and decent folk are.

I don't know about the "good and decent folk" part, but yes, I'm ready
for project shun. Maybe it would be easiest if I just quit this group?

That would be a shame, as then Gareth would have achieved what he wanted
and what he set out to do in fouling yet another newsgroup.

You are as big a problem as Gareth is and I don't recall any useful
content from you. I have added Gareth to my kill file and now I am
adding you as well. I will also add those who post abusive replies to
Gareth or anyone else. If that doesn't improve this group I'm just going to leave.

Gareth Alun Evans G4SDW wins again. A sad state of affairs.

--
STC // M0TEY // twitter.com/ukradioamateur

On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 1:47:19 PM UTC-5, rickman wrote:

You are as big a problem as Gareth is and I don't recall any useful
content from you. I have added Gareth to my kill file and now I am
adding you as well. I will also add those who post abusive replies to
Gareth or anyone else. If that doesn't improve this group I'm just
going to leave.

--

Rick

You can add me to your file also. And if you feel like leaving, don't
let the door spank you in the ass on the way out.

On 10/16/2015 5:31 PM, wrote:
On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 1:47:19 PM UTC-5, rickman wrote:

You are as big a problem as Gareth is and I don't recall any useful
content from you. I have added Gareth to my kill file and now I am
adding you as well. I will also add those who post abusive replies to
Gareth or anyone else. If that doesn't improve this group I'm just
going to leave.

--

Rick

You can add me to your file also. And if you feel like leaving, don't
let the door spank you in the ass on the way out.

Can't recall you contributing to much here. I guess your welcoming me
to leave is a bit disingenuous.

--

Rick

On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 7:03:05 PM UTC-5, rickman wrote:
On 10/16/2015 5:31 PM, wrote:
On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 1:47:19 PM UTC-5, rickman wrote:

You are as big a problem as Gareth is and I don't recall any useful
content from you. I have added Gareth to my kill file and now I am
adding you as well. I will also add those who post abusive replies to
Gareth or anyone else. If that doesn't improve this group I'm just
going to leave.

--

Rick

You can add me to your file also. And if you feel like leaving, don't
let the door spank you in the ass on the way out.

Can't recall you contributing to much here. I guess your welcoming me
to leave is a bit disingenuous.

--

Rick

I could care less what you do. I don't try to control who should be
allowed to post here, or who should be allowed to be responded to, like
you have done pretty much since you first came along.
I've been here since the late 90's, and google shows 3000+ posts by me
under just this email address alone going back to 2000.

You likely don't recall too much of me, as I prefer to talk about real
antennas, and trying to determine the number of nits that can fit on the
head of a pin doesn't interest me too much. I tend to ignore those threads
as they bore me to tears.

Feel free to carry on.

"rickman" wrote in message ...

snip

I have added Gareth to my kill file and now I am
adding you as well. I will also add those who post abusive replies to
Gareth or anyone else. If that doesn't improve this group I'm just
going to leave.

--

Rick
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My newsreader allows blocking posters selectively but it can’t filter out
quote-backs in posts that answer the troublemaker(s). Much of the
contamination isn't eliminated. *sigh*

"Sal"/John

On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 3:52:32 PM UTC-5, Sal M. O'Nella wrote:

My newsreader allows blocking posters selectively but it can't filter out
quote-backs in posts that answer the troublemaker(s). Much of the
contamination isn't eliminated. *sigh*

"Sal"/John

I've never used a kill file in my life. Always saw it as an act of weakness.
And not to mention that most true trouble makers will nym shift with every
change of the wind direction, so it ends up a silly game of tail chasing.
If I notice certain posters who consistently act silly and bark at the moon,
I just ignore them.
The only time I respond to any around here is if they try to pawn off
conjured up bafflegab as fact, which does a disservice to any newbies that
are actually trying to learn something.

On 10/18/2015 8:03 PM, wrote:
On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 3:52:32 PM UTC-5, Sal M. O'Nella wrote:

My newsreader allows blocking posters selectively but it can't filter out
contamination isn't eliminated. *sigh*

"Sal"/John

I've never used a kill file in my life. Always saw it as an act of weakness.
And not to mention that most true trouble makers will nym shift with every
change of the wind direction, so it ends up a silly game of tail chasing.
If I notice certain posters who consistently act silly and bark at the moon,
I just ignore them.
The only time I respond to any around here is if they try to pawn off
conjured up bafflegab as fact, which does a disservice to any newbies that
are actually trying to learn something.

I don't use a kill file here. However, there are newsgroups where it is
necessary. I am talking about newsgroups that are constantly plastered
with religious garbage in hopes of converting us all to Islam or some
sort of Vegan Christian cult. You just need to eliminate that stuff so
you can find real posts more easily.

I do find reading the troll's rants sometimes funny. I don't respond. It
is sad that some among us have no other way to get attention except from
this screen. They seem mostly to be angry old single men. I suspect they
have been abandoned by their family or drove them away. It is sad in any
case.

wrote in message
...

On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 3:52:32 PM UTC-5, Sal M. O'Nella wrote:

My newsreader allows blocking posters selectively but it can't filter out
quote-backs in posts that answer the troublemaker(s). Much of the
contamination isn't eliminated. *sigh*

"Sal"/John

I've never used a kill file in my life. Always saw it as an act of weakness.
And not to mention that most true trouble makers will nym shift with every
change of the wind direction, so it ends up a silly game of tail chasing.
If I notice certain posters who consistently act silly and bark at the moon,
I just ignore them.
The only time I respond to any around here is if they try to pawn off
conjured up bafflegab as fact, which does a disservice to any newbies that
are actually trying to learn something.

================================================== ====

I understand and I don't really disagree. I just wish that useful
discussions weren't so annoying to read because of so much junk requiring a
mental filter. I don't mean to be a whiner but I'm in the middle of some
extended medical treatment that already leaves me fuzzy-headed (more than
usual) and will for some months more. I somewhat resent any extra
brain-work.

I like the word "bafflegab," by the way. :-)

"Sal"/John
(KD6VKW, San Diego)