Member Commentary on announcements and staff logs thread

[zwanzig]

Aw, dang it. I was just about to say @BrianSoddingBoru4 regarding shit and run posts. It's very frustrating because lately, I'm finding these are topics and declarations I would like to see answers to the challenges presented, you know? I mean, we can be an intimidating lot, I get that. But the questions we ask are mostly reasonable and I'd prefer the theists presenting the claims to respond and engage in a bit of back and forth. We might never reach a satisfactory conclusion but I prefer it to having a thread full of interesting, unanswered questions. Which I suppose it's best that the entire thread was vanished anyway. ^^;;

Is this what they mean when they say they want to emulate God/Jesus? Post something vague and condescending, and then vanish for all clarification and challenges to it.

**In this particular instance, I guess since they were spamming, it doesn't matter. But it was a frustrating post that I wish they'd stuck around to engage on, even if they were plagiarizing themselves elsewhere.

[zwanzig]

Ahh, good call. It just got to be in bad faith after a while.

[brewer]

Where did Mashmont cross the line?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Where did Mashmont cross the line?

He was warned formally and informally to stop trolling, but continued to do so.

Boru

[The Architect Of Fate]

Ah, I can already smell the reek of his bullshit dissipating.

[brewer]

No chew toy, no, stop it,.... bad chew toy, bad.......



(I see that he was doing the dance in threads I had abanded)

[Abaddon_ire]

Did I miss an important Drich subplot?

Was it an invention?

At one stage Drich (apropos of nothing and totally off topic, it was in the thread where WinterHold was claiming he was being discriminated against because we weren't repping him or kudosing his posts) claimed that he invented this amazing new power converter.  Ranjr asked him about it and it quickly transpired that Drich was full of shit. To keep digging further Drich claimed that he had a patent for his invention but he couldn't reveal the patent number because he sold his idea and "commercial confidentialit".  He then said he would reveal the patent via PM, Abbadon_Ire took him up whereupon Drich PMed Abbadon with a large number of intrusive and offensive questions about Abbadon's personal life.  At his banning Drich was still claiming his patent and promising to reveal the patent number to members who pmed him their emails and whom he thought passed his personal threshold of trustworthyness.

The End.

Just to be clear on this, I used a burner email because I knew up front that it would be bonkers. Patents are public domain. Drich had NO reason to conceal any patent he may have had or sold to anyone. Any such patent would remain public domain regardless of whoever he might have sold it to. Having been through the process myself, I knew he was talking a big load of bollocks. The whole point of patents is to be public about whatever idea is patented. That makes nonsense of his NDA claim. Nobody can NDA a patent. Ever. The whole point of a patent is to be public. I posted one of mine up thread.

I guess he thought (and possibly got away with elsewhere) that he could claim an NDA meant he could not reveal his claimed patent. That claim might fly on crank websites. But it is utterly false. A patent is intended to be public for obvious reasons. If I or anyone wants to patent anything at all, I or anyone would need to check if it is already patented by somebody else already. 

Patents are necessarily public domain.

[Ravenshire]

Where did Mashmont cross the line?

When he came out from under his bridge.

[Deesse23]

Where did Mashmont cross the line?

When he came out from under his bridge.

Utterly dishonest from the get go.

[Foxaèr]

What if I have something to say about the hijab?