Trolls

Dean - My understanding is that Rand took dishonesty very seriously and held numerous grudges throughout her life.

I do draw a distinction between criticism and dishonesty. MSK is free to crticisize me. He is not free to make up a bunch of junk to his readers that is contradicted by a plain reading of the record. Since he has asserted that I showed up at "his place" and "spat in his face," don't you think he should at least be able to produce some evidence to support that claim about me?

I have a somewhat public life in another venue and can assure you, Robert, people are just going to make crap up about you. I choose not to care, and live my life as if they don't matter because, honestly, they don't. 

Stop caring about what someone else thinks and says, and care more about what you do and say. It's the Objectivist way. 

Dean, are my posts being posted? just curious.

Robert, get a free blog at WordPress to vent your outrage to your heart's content.

By the way, your transport of Eva to OL was as brilliant as Scotty beaming the tribbles onto the Klingon ship in the famous Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles"!

So we should call this thread "The Trouble with Trolls"!

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 3/07, 3:16am)

Jules et al - Agreed. The point has been made, and I apologize you were all subjected to that unpleasantness. I had to teach The Master a little lesson in humility and social consequence. The self-described "adventurer" has spent too long lording over his peasants from behind a grease-crudded keyboard, sausage-like fingers cravingly hovering to enact his virtual judgement. When you drag somebody through the dirt - as he so relishes doing on OL - they may very well drag you along with them in the end. The banee is still "there" post-ban, so it's an action that shouldn't be taken frivolously. When MSK does next pry himself loose from his failing, Cheetos-stained computer chair to a DC-area Objectivist event, he's going to have to consider the possibility that I may also be in attendance. It's a small world after all.

(Edited by Robert Baratheon on 3/07, 7:43am)

Quick question - Does anyone on OL or RoR actually believe Eva is a 20-year-old female college student with no digital footprint outside of Objectivist forums? LOL.

Holy crap I thuohgt ym tpyos werre bda!! Hers are atrocious!! Consistently so bad that it detracts a lot from any credibility she may have.  If she is in such a rush to spew word salad that she cannot even spell it all correctly why should anyone give anything she has to say the time of day?

A variant of the troll is the sockpuppet:

A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The term—a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from a sock—originally referred to a false identity assumed by a member of an internet community who spoke to, or about, himself while pretending to be another person.[1] The term now includes other misleading uses of online identities, such as those created to praise, defend or support a person or organization,[2] or to circumvent a suspension or ban from a website. A significant difference between the use of a pseudonym[3] and the creation of a sockpuppet is that the sockpuppet poses as an independent third-party unaffiliated with the puppeteer. Many online communities attempt to block sockpuppets.

This sounds suspiciously familiar.

Yes, as a matter of fact, what is the digital footprint of Robert contra Eva?

Hm, well, in my book, being a wanna-be manipulating puppet master is worse than lying about whether you are a single female 20 year old college student.

Edit: I acknowledge that you are apparrently honest.

(Edited by Dean Michael Gores on 3/08, 4:23pm)