G. Morgan wrote:
> Dustin wrote:
>
>>> Should I drag up some posts that have writing about you threatening
>>> to kill or cause harm to BD, and a 'visit' to Jenn?
>>
>> Do you think I care what you do? You've been caught with trollish
>> manuevers,
>
> Switching follow-ups to other groups was not a troll move, it was an
> intelligence test. You failed.

It's trolling.

It was funny the first time someone did it, but lo these many years
later, it's just a pain in the ass.

Heinlein offers a good explanation of the "funny once" concept in /The
Moon is a Harsh Mistress/. Unfortunately, 99% of humans are nowhere near
as smart as a baby AI with the emotional maturity of a 5 year old.

> Meatplow responded to one of the 'preloaded' ones, and he managed to
> fix it before hitting "Send".

MP is a long-time poster in auk, where no one understands "funny once."
In other words, trolling of all kinds is an everyday event in the armpit
of usenet, but that doesn't make it okay to do it in any group with a
pretense to utility.

> Heh, what's wrong? Embarrassed? You should be.

Setting follow-ups without noting them in the body of the post is just
lame. "Lame" is the ultimate embarrassment in a text medium.

>> threatened me, say.. what happens if I make you angry,
>> ****wit? you going to kick my ass or something? Laugh laugh.
>
> I didn't threaten you, slimeball.
>
> Don't you dare play the victim. Your history is filled with Usenet
> death threats, assault threats, and "drop the docs" threats. It's
> recent history too, post your self-proclaimed "reform".

Dustin is full of bluster, but he's not the total dirtbag you're making
him out to be. For that, you need to look to BD. With Dustin, what you
see is what you get--he's not a sneak, even when he isn't doing quite
the right thing. Note that not doing quite the right thing is not quite
the same as doing something outright wrong.

> Would you care to threaten me? I doubt you're that stupid, but there
> is always hope. I would love nothing more than to see your ass
> locked-up with the rest of the sociopath's before you really do
> physically harm someone.

The person who needs to be locked up is BD, not Dustin. At worst, Dustin
would now and again benefit if a friend would endeavor to duct-tape his
fingers together long enough to give him time to think it through before
he types. Nonetheless, he doesn't sit around plotting about how he's
going to drag someone through the mud. In other words, he's a little
impulsive, but he isn't evil. BD, on the other hand, is a manipulative,
conniving sociopath.

FYI, I have not followed any of this--I have bigger fish to fry right
now--but I had a free moment this evening, and I thought this post worth
commenting on.

And no, Dustin is not my favorite person in the world by any stretch of
the imagination, but fair is fair. And your assessment of him is simply
not fair.