🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:33:06 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
<always.look@message.header> wrote:

>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote: 
>
>> "Chuck" <chuck....@comcast.net> wrote: 
>>>"Rin Stowleigh"  wrote: 
>>>> John Doe <always.look@message.header> wrote: 
>
>>>>> If I were nym-shifting, my ID would not include 
>>>>> "always.look@message.header". 
>>>>>
>>>>> This one needs a brand-new tinfoil cap, an upgrade isn't enough. 
>>>>
>>>> That's pretty funny.  Even though I shitcanned spud boy timmy a long
>>>> time ago, his relentless commitment to stupidity still sometimes 
>>>> manifests in ways I can still reap occasional entertainment from
>>>> him. 
>>>>
>>>> A few months back, there was a similar incident where someone else I
>>>> had kill filed (who exactly escapes me) was accusing some other 
>>>> relatively sparse-posting user (forgot who the victim was too) of 
>>>> being a sock puppet account of mine (which I've never had, by the 
>>>> way).  At some point it becomes a huge compliment that so many
>>>> people believe me to be often imitated but never duplicated. ;) 
>>>
>>> That sounds like me.  Xxoycl, spelling might be incorrect, accused me
>>> of being your sock puppet.  And he should definitely be kill filed. 
>
>> LOL.  Yep, I remember now, thanks for the clarification.  Do you 
>> happen remember what it was by any chance that inspired him to make 
>> the accusation?  
>> 
>> And the x-douche was kill filed years ago, although just like spudboy 
>> timmy, I get occasional residual bleeder posts which I guess are 
>> Usenet's way of reminding me why I shitcanned them in the first place.
>
>Preventing yourself from seeing someone else's posts is 
>counterproductive. The only effective filter on UseNet is Ignore 
>SubThread that includes the whole thread if taken from the top. 
>
>Mutual blocking as implemented on YouTube is the only real way to shake 
>trolls. You can't see their posts but they can't see your posts either. 
>Will be great when major Internet discussion forums adopt mutual 
>blocking. 
>
>Mutual blocking is also implemented on Facebook, but that's less of a 
>discussion forum than YouTube. 
>
>YouTube has become my hands-down favorite for discussion thanks to 
>mutual blocking. On UseNet, contentious issues are impossible without 
>floods of interference. On YouTube, you can discuss anything no matter 
>how controversial without it turning into a pissing contest and without 
>picking up relentless stalkers.

Understood / agreed on most of what you've said, except I strongly
disagree that selective kill filing is counter-productive.

First of all, it takes A LOT for me to kill file someone.  There has
been only a handful of folks is Usenet that I've had to do this with,
and they are truly bottom-of-the-barrel pieces of work who proved over
a period of months that they were beyond rehabilitation.

I don't kill file people just because I disagree with them, or because
they are assholes, etc.  I kill file them only when the following
conditions are true:

1) They've demonstrated a weird obsession with me (i.e. they will
engage me at every possible opportunity, excited that I even respond
to them but at the same time fundamentally realizing that they are
wasting my time.  They know I have nothing to learn from them, they
have everything to learn from me, but instead of trying to coexist
they choose to try to make everything a keyboard battleground, then
failing to admit defeat when they fall, rinse and repeat).  For
example timo had this bizarre obsession with my penis, he would find a
way to bring it into discussion several times per month (that was a
separate issue from his relentless stupidity).  Xoccyl would simply
make it a point to be a part of ANY thread I was a part of, and would
actively seek out an opposing view, and defend his views poorly and
with self-contradictory logic, never becoming any wiser.

2)  They are clearly making an exerted effort, going out of their way
to be a first-order cunt, and do so consistently/ on an ongoing basis.
Maybe this should be number one, because it's important.  I don't mind
if someone is a cunt without meaning to be, and I don't even mind if
they go out of their way to be a cunt occasionally.  But the people in
my kill file list earned their spot because being a first-order cunt
forms the very basis of who they are.  They will never be able to
change.  

3)  Their behavior persists even after I warn them they are close to
getting shitcanned (I never just kill file someone on a whim and move
on).

So, because my nature tends to be that of a problem solver / fixer of
things, if I see someone being an idiot, my first instinct is to try
to fix them.  There are of course too many idiots on the 'Net, and
frankly some of them just cannot be fixed.  Selectively shitcanning a
user here and there has a huge benefit to my Usenet productivity, even
with the broken sub-threads and such, because it prevents me from
having to make a judgement call on whether to try to participate and
help the poor fuck based on my instinct or not.  They become mostly
out of sight, out of mind.