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Is there any way to stop a completely unhinged person from messaging me?
Vorpal is doing my head in.
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#2

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And can I just say that Vorpal is so off the mark it's untrue.
Fuck it..
My comedy lives on.
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#3

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Go to your user CP and scroll down the left side until you see the buddy/ignore list, and set him to ignore. He won't be able to message you, and his posts will be hidden in threads.
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I would say go to your user CP and scroll down on the left. You'll see the "buddy/ignore" list. Set him to ignore. His posts will be hidden in threads and he won't be able to message you.
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Totally weird thread. Any messaging between us was over hours ago. Like drama much?

But, go to your user CP and scroll down on the left. You'll see the "buddy/ignore" list. Set him to ignore.
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#6

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Yeah, he tried that shit with me when he first got here. Creeeeepy. I blocked him for about a year, then did my usual "give 'im a second chance", and he blew it, so he's blocked again, this time for good. He'll then try to troll you using reputation, by putting in passive-aggressive comments.

Put him on ignore, he won't be able to PM you. Just pinch his nostrils.
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Thump is a whole different story. Basically a good guy who cannot tolerate being bested in debate.
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#9

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I have several simps on ignore. Simple test for them is to try and PM me.
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(01-17-2025, 01:59 AM)Vorpal Wrote: Thump is a whole different story. Basically a good guy who cannot tolerate being bested in debate.

When did you ever best Thump in a debate?!? Dodgy
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(01-18-2025, 01:06 AM)TheGentlemanBastard Wrote:
(01-17-2025, 01:59 AM)Vorpal Wrote: Thump is a whole different story. Basically a good guy who cannot tolerate being bested in debate.

When did you ever best Thump in a debate?!? Dodgy

Well, since you asked one of the first times was about the legal definition of sexual assault.  He claimed the law was one thing and showed a university's guidlelines as proof. I simply let him know his "proof" did not support his claim. He wasn't happy.

The second major contention involved calling him on his all-or-none interpretation of something.  I showed him the continuum.  He resented that and periodically after that accused me of such thinking.

The third event involved a discussion of the usefulness of trend information. When I started to win, he accused me of lying and refused to continue unless I provided him proof of a tangential issue.  He then blocked me swearing never to speak to me again.

Finally, and this was recent and I forget the actual issue, but he demanded that I answer a series of questions saying that he would never communicate with me again if I didn't.  I answered all his questions but he still decided to block me again anyway.   I will have to go look that up to see what that was all about.

Otherwise, he was quite a nice chap.
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(01-17-2025, 01:25 AM)Vorpal Wrote: Totally weird thread. Any messaging between us was over hours ago.  Like drama much?

But,  go to your user CP and scroll down on the left. You'll see the "buddy/ignore" list. Set him to ignore.

"Hours ago"? I need a year of annoyance to put someone on "ignore". I can just not pay attention to some theist-loonies for the weeks before they go away on their own frustrated at their failure to convert us to some theism or another.
38 years ago here, I could see The Milky Way. Then only the stars and planets. And now I can barely see the brightest planets sometimes.
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(01-18-2025, 01:06 AM)TheGentlemanBastard Wrote:
(01-17-2025, 01:59 AM)Vorpal Wrote: Thump is a whole different story. Basically a good guy who cannot tolerate being bested in debate.

When did you ever best Thump in a debate?!? Dodgy

Which only shows how dull Vorpal is.

1) I don't debate, I discuss. But he's buggered to know any difference.

2) I don't see such discussions as zero-sum. He's projecting his own insecurities onto me.

3) The reason I don't interact with him is because he's a cunt and doesn't deserve anyone's attention.
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I've taken the advice and blocked him.
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(01-18-2025, 01:40 AM)Vorpal Wrote:
(01-18-2025, 01:06 AM)TheGentlemanBastard Wrote: When did you ever best Thump in a debate?!? Dodgy

Finally, and this was recent and I forget the actual issue, but he demanded that I answer a series of questions saying that he would never communicate with me again if I didn't.  I answered all his questions but he still decided to block me again anyway.   I will have to go look that up to see what that was all about.

I reviewed the relevant threads. What happened was after answering all his questions upon his demand, I asked him questions which he tried to dodge and finally refused to continue then blocked me. He was a bit of a hypocrite in that instance, and it was a minor point about grammar.


Does a discussion or a does a debate have formal rules?  I used an anecdote I read about as a hypothetical. Then, he cried bloody murder and denied the anecdote was true claiming that a source was required to maintain intellectual integrity.  Similarly, he demanded I anwer his questions directly and in a form he found acceptable. Our discussions often let to contentious debates. He fled when he saw he could not win the point.
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(01-18-2025, 02:39 PM)KingEric Wrote: I've taken the advice and blocked him.

Vorpal is the common sort who thinks himself more intelligent and accomplished than he actually is. Avoiding such people is likely the best solution.


“Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.   The same applies when you are stupid.”  
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Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ.
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.


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(01-18-2025, 04:37 PM)Dānu Wrote:  Vorpal is the common sort who thinks himself more intelligent and accomplished than he actually is.  Avoiding such people is likely the best solution.
Danu is of an uncommon variety -- the opposite of me.  She is extremely intelligent and creative, yet she lives off the government dime and sells her plasma to buy things she doesn't need at Walmart. Please do what you can to help her.
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(01-18-2025, 04:49 PM)Vorpal Wrote: Danu is of an uncommon variety -- the opposite of me.  She is extremely intelligent and creative, yet she lives off the government dime and sells her plasma to buy things she doesn't need at Walmart. Please do what you can to help her.

Mate... this is an offensive, unfounded denigration
of another member's private and personal life.

BTW, Dânu has added far, far more meaningful comment
to this forum then you ever have.  Might be time for you
to look in a mirror before criticising other people?

     Just sayin'.
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I'm really sorry that I started this thread. In hindsight I should not have mentioned Vorpal by name and should have just blocked him after advice.
I'm sorry to any other members that he spits poison at because of this.
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(01-19-2025, 12:29 PM)KingEric Wrote: I'm really sorry that I started this thread. In hindsight I should not have mentioned Vorpal by name and should have just blocked him after advice.
I'm sorry to any other members that he spits poison at because of this.

He only singles out people that make him feel insecure and he's all about not appearing insecure, look up his user name.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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(01-19-2025, 12:29 PM)KingEric Wrote: I'm really sorry that I started this thread. In hindsight I should not have mentioned Vorpal by name and should have just blocked him after advice.
I'm sorry to any other members that he spits poison at because of this.

Mate...  I wouldn't stress yourself over this (starting the thread).
There's been far worse stuff—relatively speaking—posted on this
forum over the years—so there's no need to apologise.

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(01-19-2025, 12:29 PM)KingEric Wrote: I'm really sorry that I started this thread. In hindsight I should not have mentioned Vorpal by name and should have just blocked him after advice.
I'm sorry to any other members that he spits poison at because of this.

Don't let it trouble you.
Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ.
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.


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(01-19-2025, 10:17 AM)SYZ Wrote:
(01-18-2025, 04:49 PM)Vorpal Wrote: Danu is of an uncommon variety -- the opposite of me.  She is extremely intelligent and creative, yet she lives off the government dime and sells her plasma to buy things she doesn't need at Walmart. Please do what you can to help her.

Mate... this is an offensive, unfounded denigration
of another member's private and personal life. 

No, it's not.  It is rather a nice compliment and a statement of fact.  Save the specificity of the retailer it is entirely factual sourced by the poster's self-report. 

Danu suffers from a mental illness, and kudos to her for managing it, in part,  through participation in virtual communities and online postings of her daily activities etc. However,  Danu is also quite a sadistic online bully. I have seen it on this forum and the other multiple times. She is unnecessarily self-engrandising and vicious.  She lives in a glass house and she needs some stones launched at her.

Quote:BTW, Dânu has added far, far more meaningful comment
to this forum then you ever have.  Might be time for you
to look in a mirror before criticising other people?

WTF?  Have you read carefully what went on here?  Why are you touting her valuable contributions as if I have not acknowledged that she has some talent already? I did this despite the fact that she pipes in with a very one sided negative comments about me. The point is she has made characterological statements about me when she has not looked in the mirror.  Are you trolling me?
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(01-19-2025, 12:29 PM)KingEric Wrote: I'm really sorry that I started this thread. In hindsight I should not have mentioned Vorpal by name and should have just blocked him after advice.
I'm sorry to any other members that he spits poison at because of this.

I will accept an apology when you admit your role in this fully. I sent you one private message as a probe to see if you might be an Incubus sock. Your initial responnse was not suspicious so I sent you an apology with a caveat that if you are a sock I will be watching.  You ginned up controversy in the forum at large by posting about it publically and lied about me making a threat. THAT is suspicious.  Making this thread is suspicious. Making this purportedly apologetic post is suspicious. You might not be Incubus. You might not be Jamie, (but you probably are.)   You have been disingenuous here that is for certain.
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(01-19-2025, 12:29 PM)KingEric Wrote: I'm really sorry that I started this thread. In hindsight I should not have mentioned Vorpal by name and should have just blocked him after advice.
I'm sorry to any other members that he spits poison at because of this.

It's not yours to apologize for his defects of character, bud.
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