Khompewtur said:
I hope in the future that people will have a little more jurisprudence before telling someone to fuck off.
Oh for fuck's sake. Nobody told anyone to fuck off. The first snotty comment came from - surprise - *Dave*. Go back and READ the damn thread. Dachay made a very polite suggestion that Dave's posting was inappropriate. Dave responded sarcastically. I agreed with Dachay, but I gave Dave the benefit of the doubt right from the get go.
I said then and I say now THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DAVE. His post just prompted a discussion. That's it, folks. A discussion. Mostly civil. As dobro pointed out, every time Dave posted it was, seemingly, with the intent of stirring up trouble. The only hysteria here was on his side.
And yeah, once it became clear what a fucknut he was, I treated him as such. And once it became clear that his posting at this point amounts to the acts of a pathetic troll, I stopped responding to him at all.
I think you people who are raging about what a terrible reception your Golden Boy got might wanna go back and actually read the thread.
It tells a very different story than has been painted by Dave and his allies.
In case you've somehow still missed it, here it is again: the point was never whether Dave was "on the level" or not. The point was: do we want to have to discern whether every spammer is on the level or not, or should we just say no to spam, period, and risk losing the occasional chance at internet stardom.
The group has spoken and I accept that (it's not really THAT big a fucking deal), but fer chrissake, quit whining about what beasts we were to the fucking corporate shill. He was treated with way more respect initially than he deserved (or gave us).
Chris