*From:* "jedi_sp...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To flood the forum like a huge dump truck is clearly
malicious intent.
I think he's gone totally nuts.
>
On 9/3/2014 3:52 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
For those whose brains are so atrophied from the practice of TM that
they cannot do math, so far this week Richard Williams has managed to
make almost *30% of all posts* made to Fairfield Life.
>
You spent what, two or three hours tabulating my messages, but you
didn't even realize that they almost all start with RE: Now, that's
really funny!
>
* So far this week: 177 posts out of 600 - 29.5% of all posts made
to FFL
* Week ending Aug 30: 209 posts out of 1129 - 18.5% of all posts made
to FFL
* Week ending Aug 23: 258 posts out of 943 - 27.4% of all posts made
to FFL
* Week ending Aug 16: 146 posts out of 681 - 23.4% of all posts made
to FFL
* Week ending Aug 09: 152 posts out of 741 - 20.5% of all posts made
to FFL
* Week ending Aug 02: 112 posts out of 518 - 21.6% of all posts made
to FFL
* Week ending Jul 26: 104 posts out of 439 - 23.6% of all posts made
to FFL
* Week ending Jul 19: 149 posts out of 541 - 27.5% of all posts made
to FFL
* Week ending Jul 12: 166 posts out of 720 - 23.1% of all posts made
to FFL
* Week ending Jul 05: 167 posts out of 660 - 25.3% of all posts made
to FFL
If that's not "flooding the forum" and "malicious intent," I don't
know what is. NO ONE was this malicious in their overposting back when
Posting Limits were first instituted -- not Judy, not Lawson, not
Shemp. The only reason Richard's percentage of total posts was so low
during the week ending August 30 is that Dan Friedman tried to emulate
Richard's "Net terrorist" approach and made 252 posts of his own,
increasing the noise but decreasing Richard's noise ratio. If Dan
hadn't been posting, Richard's percentage would have been 23.8%.
There is no sanity left there to appeal to in a person who posts this
compulsively, and this consistently compulsively. Nuke this guy so we
can forget him entirely, as if he had never existed.
--- <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
A friend who used to post here sent this short reaction to dropping by
FFL for a look today to me in email. I thought it was worth sharing
with the forum:
No wonder I never bother looking in. Tex is outta control! Or maybe
it’s just that there is no “there” there anymore. Tex’s eruptions are
just the death rattle of a dead site.
177 'Richard J. Williams' punditster
46 danfriedman2002
39 steve.sundur
39 salyavin808
30 jr_esq
30 fleetwood_macncheese
30 Share Long sharelong60
29 Michael Jackson mjackson74
28 nablusoss1008
28 awoelflebater
28 Bhairitu noozguru
12 s3raphita
10 emilymaenot
9 dmevans365
9 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb
6 emptybill
I think that "death rattle of a dead site" kinda nails it.
And IMO it's clearly Rick's fault. As many have pointed out, he
*could* do something to remove a person who has said outright that his
only reason for posting so much is to fuck with people he doesn't like
and ruin their site. But he doesn't. Clearly Rick doesn't read his own
forum enough to even CARE what Richard Williams has turned the
experience of reading it into.
If it were me, given his history and how he's resisted any attempts to
get him to lighten up for years now, I'd ban Richard for at least a
year. With two conditions. First, if he attempts to create other IDs
so he can post anyway, nuke each of the new IDs as they appear and
make the ban permanent for life. Second, offer anyone still around on
FFL after a year a vote to see if they want to allow him back. Post a
few links back to this recent period in which he's been making 500+
posts a month to help them decide how to vote.
No muss, no fuss, no maintenance, and maybe the forum would become a
pleasant place to have a discussion again. Maybe.
