CSB Reboot

[Crackpot]

Didn't/don't think it was him the handle isn't his style

[Gob]

Ok, guesses?

If it was Steve he was using a spell checker..

[Scooter]

Just because I like shooting at fish in barrels.

In comes this supposed newbie, who in his first post goes for both Jim and myself, who just happen to be two of Quad's three favourite targets. Completely coincidental, of course, is that, months after I have stopped posting at CSB, Quad is the only person who cannot seem to get past bringing my name into every conversation there.

There then followed the classic Quad misrepresentation (well, outright lie, actually) of what was said.

There then followed the classic Quad pathetic attempt to justify his lie by reference to posts which did not even come close to supporting the accusation he made.

Accompanied by, and here was the clincher, the classic Quad attempt at sarcasm:

This must be a different Scooter.

Any of this sound familiar?

Try here then, where Quad uses EXACTLY the same tactics trying to claim that Jim had said he had lost a bundle cashing in his 401(k)s. Right down to the same, pathetic attempt at sarcasm:

Oh yes, I can see now how you posting a number of years...were done by the FAKE LJ handle.

QED

Any of you still not convinced, I've got a great deal for you on the Brooklyn Bridge.

[Scooter]

The problems with most people using socks, as others have noted, is that they are morons. They have no clue that they have made no attempt to mask some of the most idiosyncratic characteristics of their posts. It would be like me creating a sock and making it say "waiting...waiting...waiting..."

[Scooter]

Oh yeah, and as for the IP thing...

I have two computers sitting on my desk that would return two COMPLETELY different IPs, without the use of any IP masking software. Simply because one is connected thru a VPN and would express outward from the IP for that server, whereas the other one would show an IP related to the ISP to which my home network is connected.

Of course I could also show two IP addresses from the same computer simply by using masking software.

[BoSoxGal]

I suppose it was only a matter of time before one of the nasty felt compelled to come over here and dump, but it still sucks . . .

And supposedly those of us who enjoy Plan B are the troublemaking shit-stirrers.

[Gob]

Well said BSG!

Wil the real person behind Karmakritic have the balls to stand up and absolve Quaddy? Or will Quady now have to take the rap for the disengenuous behaviour of one of his alleged compatriots from the other place.

Courage of your convictions? Belief in that which you wrote, most of which was untrue?

[Scooter]

You're buying it Gob? Ok, guess PT Barnum was right...

[Gob]

As Locatek pointed out, but some seem to have missed he did ask for our help and assistance, and yet the vast majority of us who post here and at the old CSB only seem to be able to tear him down and throw roadblocks in the way. I am so glad to be over here with a group of people that are so supportive of someone who has given us all a refuge and a place to express ourselves for so many years. Three cheers for us.

Nobody, has "torn him down", some, myself included, have offered criticism of the design of the site. That is what Gar asked for so he could tailor the site to be the most attractive/user friendly way it could be. I still think his banners make it look like a kindergarten site, and have no qualms about saying so.

Besides, it’s not as though Gar cares about what we think. He doesn’t share anything with us about what is going on with the CSB. It is obvious that he is only concerned with his own self-serving interests. IMO he should have never come back. All that he has done is caused more problems than he has settled. So far as I feel about it at this point he can shove Reboot-up- his arse.

Strawman, no one has ever claimed that.

Gar is a real piece of work! How thick headed does a person have to be before they get the picture. My DOG, you would think the guy would get the picture by now that we simply don’t like him or the CSB. Like Scooter said once before how can we trust this guy anymore? He’s shady, and no doubt has a hidden agenda that is not in fitting how we all think the CSB should be run. He claims that we have free speech over there and then he tries to say that the membership has to be responsible for their own posts. What kind of happy horseshit is that? Come on now lets be real. Free Speech is free speech and that means I can say everything that pops into my mind and flies out of my mouth. That is what free speech is end of story!

This lie has already been disproven, by you I believe.

You know I am just done with the CSB 100%. Gar is a fake and a fraud and doesn’t deserve the time of day to make that den of vipers and trolls any better than it is. It simply is not worth my time. Now as I look back over the years of time and effort I put into being a member over there I should probably kick myself in the a$$ for being such a fool as to ever think that Gar was anything other than self-interested, suck-up, no-balls kiss-ass, pundit and I hope he does remove my account from there and delete me from his contact lists as well.

Again, you make up imaginary beliefs about Gar, and ascribe them to the members here, in order to further your own hate filled interesting agenda.

And all that information we have to fill out over there. You know that he is going to make a list of all 50 or 60 of us and sell it to some coporation to be added on a spam mail list or something.

The only person claiming this is you.

Who is he trying to kid? The guy is only out to make a buck.

Now that was claimed often, by Steve.

You would think that with all the work that he has done to build the new CSB that he could at least get a freakin' space in the user names. It's not as though it is rocket science. The space bar is one every keyboard I have ever seen. How can it be so hard with everything else he has built.

Well that is a minor quibble of some here, and a fair one I believe.

Big deal he has a real job and has to spend his free time doing this. He says that like it is some burden and that we should feel sorry for him because he has to work AND fix the CSB too. Well at least he is lucky enough to have a job unlike many of the rest of the country. Why should we help him do anything?

That sounds very Steve like.

What do we get out ot it? Maybe he should pay us to help him. We shouldn't help him. We are not going to get a single dime out of the CSB, and he is too cheap to pay real programmers to do his website for him.

Well that's, again, something which has never been voiced here.

I bet if all of us here put our minds together for six months, we could easily put together a site that would be so killer kick ass that it would make the CSB look like the pile of vomit that it is. RB knows how to write programs. I mean she has this place running like a top.

I do not believe RB does write programs, but she certainly has made this "off the shelf" software run smoothly and we are all grateful to her for that. No one here has ever claimed to be able to develop or create any sort of original site.

We have the best of the CSB over here so why do we even care what happens to the CSB at all. Just let it go down the drain. It's evolution by example. Only the strong survive. So I say we all just stop going to the CSB at all and let Gar and Steve have their own little playground all to them selves. They like it that way.

It would apear so. Steve, Edi and Gwen (and latterly Quaddy) damn near destroyed the CSB.

It got so bad there that many of us were desperate something like the old CSB was before the triumvirate took over. Gwen was denying the membership any information on the board, its finaces and other opperational matters.

She was banning genuine new members and yet leaving Steve form as many new socks as he desired.

Edi was lying like a snake in grass, and creating fantasies about people creating sock puppets to get at him, when Steve was the only one with active sock puppets. The whole place was shambles and so we sought refuge, just like we had from the Darwin Forums.

Hence I created Plan B due to having some server space already paid for. Most here see it as a respite from Steve, some as a respite from Edi, some from Gwen, most of the members here are long standing CSB members, that speaks for itself.

If you ask them why they left/joined here, they will tell you.

[Lord Jim]

Excellent analysis Strop....

[quaddriver]

I mention you in every post Scooter? You might overstate your importance by a few orders of magnitude.

IIRC I mentioned you once, perhaps twice in noting that here, like there, you act the pedantic twat and get into a pissy match with every single poster. And I note you dont refute that.

However a simple fact remains this is my third post here under my only handle. And it is true a person can forge an IP. however after viewing your CV and nearly everything you have done in your life I state with full confidence that *you* cannot. Nor would you understand the process, regardless of the amount of googling your fingers can do. So unless you decided to pull a PhD in CS outta your butt in the last few years, knock it off.

suffice to say, I am confident I remain the only poster on all *3* sites who is fully open about who they are, where they are, and what they do. Since you claim to be reading the old CSB you also note my use of the phrase 'in real life'. the one with trees, jobs, oxygen. I, unlike you, do not hide nor have any reason to do so. If I wanted to point out your behaviour, I will and I will sign my name to it.

So, keeping that in mind, if you feel a need to think that poster is me, go ahead. But in the real world, you know, the one with trees, jobs, and oxygen....said belief makes you the dumbass. Run with it.

[BoSoxGal]

I am confident I remain the only poster on all *3* sites who is fully open about who they are, where they are, and what they do.

Well then, you are overconfident.

I've been fully open about who I am, where I am, and what I do - for the full five years I've been posting among these folks, on all three sites.

I'm pretty confident I have a pretty good idea who, what and where for most of the folks I've posted with, too.

[Lord Jim]

I tend to believe most people's representations about themselves... (maybe because I've had occasion to meet so many posters FTF over the years) I always begin by extending a presumption of truthfulness, and I only deviate from that in a few cases where the claims the poster made seemed wildly implausible....

Such as a white, radical objectivist waking up one morning to suddenly discover that he is in fact, a left wing black militant....

Or a guy who claimed to have a full time job where he's not allowed to go on the internet, but who regularly posted all throughout work hours at least a couple of days a week....

I also tend to disbelieve it if a poster who's posts indicate that they are of fairly limited intellect starts making claims about achievements that would require substantial intellectual prowess....

But in my experience, these sorts of things are very much the exception, not the rule.

[quaddriver]

I think Andrew put it best....and I slightly paraphrase:

You want something to be the case, therefore in your mind, it is the case. Regardless of reality.

I prolly owe him a coke or something now.

[Andrew D]

Didn't/don't think it was him the handle isn't his style

I agree.

[Daisy]

Ed ... is that you??

[oldr_n_wsr]

I ams who I ams and that's all who I ams.

[Miles]

I ams who I ams and that's all who I ams.

I agree oldr. I have such a poor memory that it would be next to impossible for me to construct a false persona. I have a severe case of CRS that drives my wife crazy.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I have a severe case of CRS that drives my wife crazy.

You and me both.

[Rick]

Preface: I don't know who it is and don't care.

The KKK reference is reminiscent of EGlide...