Chad (NP-b24) wrote in news:sd7al6997a3ah0rdk7g4eiij5nurouml74@4ax.com:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:32:15 -0500, Doc NP-f31 wrote:
>
>>Dear Fort Members,
>>
>>Enough confusion, mayhem and hurt feelings have been caused recently
>>by a single individual that I am moved to speak out. Many of you,
>>especially those of you who are newbies and lurkers, have been
>>confused by the multitude of posts by a dizzying array of 'characters'
>>who show a particularly nasty streak. It is usually easy to see that
>>in most cases the individual is trolling and tends to seek out Fort
>>members as targets. What is really confusing is that SOME of these
>>'characters' appear to be boylovers.
>>
>>The poster who most frequently and lately calls himself:
>>
>>Pig Castrator Hatchet Mus.cled George
>>Fort Kittens (Registered, #1, #2 and #3)
>>
>>has been in The Fort almost since the beginning. Originally known as
>>Oden, he was in those days an entirely evil entity. Since then he has
>>gone away and returned on a fairly regular basis. The names often
>>change and include the following:
>>
>>Abdul
>>human talking ROVER
>>Fort Reporter
>>newUSER
>>**_fact_**
>>Choirboy Helper
>>
>>there are many others.
>>
>>His posts are easy to spot because they are almost always angry attack
>>posts, they tend to be repeated almost obsessively and they seldom
>>make any sense.
>>
>>You may have noticed that he really hates me, a deceased poster called
>>Y-Not and now Victor Victorian, who least of all people in usenet
>>deserves any scorn. The implication is that Y-Not is me, I am
>>apparently dead and Victor Victorian is Y-Not. The genesis of this
>>idea goes back many years and is not worth dredging up. Very recently
>>George's posts have been extremely nasty and completely untrue attack
>>ads aimed at Victor Victorian. So offensive are these attacks that
>>they have genuinely hurt the feelings of Victor. What hurts him the
>>most is that not one of his many friends in The Fort has stood up for
>>him. Including me, until now. I can sympathize with Victor, I have
>>been in the same exact place. I have helped hundreds of you over the
>>years and when I was attacked about a year ago I felt abandoned by my
>>friends and I do have friends here. I came to realize that the
>>majority of Fort members either have George kill filtered or totally
>>ignore him. That makes sense, but sometimes, as our friends in Egypt
>>are teaching us, it is time to stand up to the bully.
>>
>>I want you all to think about this:
>>
>>George picks on Victor and no one complains - what if Victor goes away
>>and stops posting? George picks on Insane For Boys all the time, what
>>if IFB follows Victor out the door? What would keep Dexter from being
>>next? Or jimmy? Or Cosmos? Do you see what is at risk?
>>
>>Here is the question you need to ask yourself: would The Fort be
>>better off without Victor or without George? Because Victor won't
>>stick around if he isn't appreciated. If Victor isn't here, then I
>>don't want to be here. In my mind, Victor embodies everything that is
>>good about The Fort.
>>
>>Two weeks from today The Fort will turn 13 years old. A teenager!
>>There is a core of people, including me, who have worked hard the past
>>few years to keep The Fort going through the group being banned by
>>some news service providers and apathy after The Great Unpleasantness.
>>Victor is one of these folks and you can tell who the others are if
>>you don't know.
>>
>>George has no problem with flaming anyone who crosses him. He does it
>>mercilessly until he goes into one of his 3-4 month quiet cycles.
>>(These are the times when I suspect he has been hospitalized because
>>he is a danger to himself and others). What if we shout him down? What
>>if we ALL shout him down? Why don't we tell him to play nice or leave?
>>Why don't we act like this is OUR group and demand that he behave?
>>We've chased out trolls before, we've chased out criminals who
>>attempted to prey on boys in The Fort. We can at the very east let
>>George know that his disruption and lies are not welcome.
>>
>>Join me or not. But if things don't change soon, The Fort will atrophy
>>because those who make it work will leave.
>>
>>Doc
>>NP-f31
>
> Dearest Doc,
>
> Please forgive my apparent lack of support for VV. The fact is, I have
> Pig George etc in my kill filter and as such was only vaguely aware of
> his inane rants by virtue of his posts being quoted in someone else's
> reply. Cancelling that plonk is not something I really want to do for
> the simple fact that receiving George's posts is essentially a waste
> of bandwidth. Responding to his posts is even more wasted bandwidth,
> and even though I have virtually unlimited bandwidth to work with, I
> also consider it a waste of time.
>
> I do have the utmost respect for VV, and for you for that matter, and
> would 'take a bullet' for either of you. If you deem it helpful, I
> will un-plonk George and jump into the fray. But, as you've already
> alluded to, his level of insanity seems to make any kind of
> confrontation with him a worthless endeavor.
>
> I typically recommend against feeding the trolls, but if you want me
> to, I'll get my slingshot back out and start firing biscuits at it.
>
> I stand (well, sit actually) at the ready.
>
> Chad (NP-b24)
I've been frequenting this group for I'll bet 10 years at least. I've
seen it almost die and then flourish again. I've never killfiled anyone.
I just skip over those posts. I would seem to me that if absolutely
NOBODY would respond to those posts, those posters would give up. In
other words, don't feed them.
Speaking of old times, does anyone know what became of PM (Powder
Monkey)? Is he gone or did he just switch nicks?
And what about Lil' Stinker (:darkshadows:)? I fear maybe he got in
trouble because he was there one day and gone the next never to return.
And may Memphi rest in peace
I'm not mentioning you old timers who are still here from way back!
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