I don't consider myself the Nutjob Police. If you're going to read internet boards, you have to accept that it's not going to self-police very well and that it's the Wild West. Plus the fact that none of us can exactly claim moral high ground for our choice of hobbies: it just seems to work out best if one stays with the "no harm, no foul" philosophy.But ML seems to stick out, even in a Wild West context. I don't understand why he's carpet-bombing the board. What can he possibly be getting out of getting up at 5AM to post three consecutive new threads on exactly the same topic, as he did yesterday? If I'm gonna do something just to piss someone off, I don't do it at 5AM. I do it at some much more convenient time to myself. I'm quite sure he isn't as clueless as he makes himself out to be, but I also think he's got some sort of compulsive disorder which compels him to continuously express himself, repetitively, yearningly (and nauseatingly, cloyingly). I can envision him awake at 4AM composing his next couple of posts in his head.
Hey, we're all a little "off" here. I don't happen to like his posts any longer, but so what. SF is the city of tolerance. I only wish ML could control himself better, and if he needs to write a lot, just re-use an existing thread. By my quick count he's got 24 open threads with a last posting date of January alone, all on a) talking to dancers, b) his Vegas trip, and c) girls' heighth. He's drowning out everyone else, and that's just not cool. This is like trying to navigate the internet a couple of years ago when there were all those horrible pop-up ads.
If his objective really is to piss most everyone off, there's not much to do about it other than just quit reading RB entirely until he blows himself out. If he's the OCD adopting a persona of "bottom" buffoon so as to curry pity and attention, as I think he is, fine - just be a mensch and do it with a much smaller footprint.
Veni Vidi Vici
The Mandarin