Psycho Rusty Old Fool is a pathetic old homo

Blah blah blah! I must have hit bull's eye about you being a homo!
Psycho Rusty Old Fool, you pathetic old homo, most people here
including yourself know I am a Chinese guy from Taiwan, using photos
of a beautiful innocent Thai girl “Meichi” to flame me only shows how
pathetic you are! Why don’t you stay on the topic or apologize for
your false claim [BS].

Rusty Old Fool, I only ask you to back up your false claim [BS] that
Confucius teachings (impotence of education, family value, discipline,
etc) brought the downfall of China, Singapore. Japan, Korea, HK,
Taiwan... but you could not because you have never read Analects of
Confucius and you have no idea what Confucianism is...so you got mad,
you curse, talk dirty, isn't it sad?


Rusty Old Fool, you also defended Nazi's Holocaust. One netter said he
thinks you are more crazy than he had previously thought, then you
cursed that netter too. I think that netter was right! Show us that
you are really a man and not an ugly old woman dressed as a man!

I hope the California fires burn you out!


On May 7, 5:53 pm, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=19445651&im....

It Takes a Village Idiot: The Jerks of Online Forums
Discussion forums are magnets for some of the jerkiest people on the
"Interwebs." We profile a dozen of the most common and annoying forum
jerks -- from "The Antagonist" to "The Conspiracy Theorist."Next >
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Takes a Village Idiot: The Jerks of Online Forums
Illustrations by Mike Reed / © PC World
Who ARE these people?

Online comment forums create ample opportunity for behavior of such
extreme jerkitude that it can drive even the most patient Netizens
batty. You know what I'm talking about: the know-it-alls, fight-
starters and doctrinaire zealots who seem to frequent every message
board on the entire "Interwebs," using any and every topic as a
springboard for their sociopathic gratification. We've sifted through
pages of forum messages to find the most absolutely asinine tactics.
So get ready to cringe: On the pages that follow you'll meet our
nominees for the 12 biggest jerks of the Web's online forums.

 -- Illustrations by Mike Reed; Story by JR Raphael, PC World

For additional coverage of the jerky and embarrassing demimonde of the
Web, check out these stories:

"Jerks of the Web" by Erin Biba
"Top 10 Tech Embarrassments You'll Want to Avoid" by Dan Tynan
"The 13 Most Embarrassing Web Moments" by Christopher Null

1. The FIRST! Guy

Maybe we should have saved this character for last, but our first
offender is the FIRST! Guy -- the mental marsupial whose contribution
to the great discussions of our online times is to post the first
response to any given topic, consisting of the comment "FIRST!"
Clever? No. Original? No. Ironically self-mocking in a postmodern
deconstructionist kind of way? Uh, no. Puerile? Now you're getting
close. And yet there seem to be multiple FIRST! Guy clones lurking
around every forum, ready to share a very important message. Here's
hoping that all of these Net nuisances find another source of personal
pride by their 15th birthday.

2. The Self-Promoter

The Self-Promoter is a message board classic: This bore meanders
across the Web, leaving thinly disguised comments designed to pimp his
own project. Sometimes, he'll take a stab at making the promotion look
incidental: "Man, that new iPhone software does look rad! You should
check out my blog about Windows Mobile here!" But just as often, he'll
ditch the preamble and launch straight into the link without even
trying to tie it to the subject at hand.

Shameless self-promotion really is the worst -- especially when the
shill has to stretch like Elastigirl to come up with a semi-plausible
segue into the promo reference. The only thing that irks me more is
behavioral ad targeting, which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago
here.

3. The Sermonator

A close relative to the Self-Promoter, the Sermonator trolls various
comment forums to find some way to divert the conversation to his
favorite subject -- most often something related to morals, religion
or a particular political view. No discussion is too interesting and
no community too engaged for the Sermonator to subvert into a tedious
homily on his topic of choice. Let's head out to the showroom for some
real-world examples:

• Example #1: The author of a blog posting about an asteroid that came
close to Earth stated that the incident was "like God threw a snowball
at us and missed, but just barely." From this, a handful of commenters
began a discussion that degenerated into a three-page debate over
whether historical evidence could prove that Jesus was God.

• Example #2: A recent story of mine raised some privacy concerns
about Google Latitude, the company's new mobile location tracking
service. After concluding that my apprehensions stemmed from a general
problem of dishonesty, one forum user took to the pulpit and lectured
at great length about why the entire forum community should stop
uttering even the littlest white lies. I would tell you that everyone
found his contributions thought-provoking and useful, but that would
be a not-so-little white lie.

4. Mr. Credentials

"As someone who has managed Windows-based systems for 15 years," Mr.
Credentials weighs in with a predictable approach. First he encourages
everyone to focus on his superior curriculum vitae, rather than on the
objective reasonableness of his views. Then he'll launch into a 500-
word essay designed to show just how well-versed he is on the subject
at hand (or whatever subject he wants to talk about), overwhelming all
resistance with the sheer force and volume of his hot air.

And in case his own credentials might be called into question at some
point when he has paused to breathe, Mr. Credentials likes to cite his
authorities by the bushel -- quoting them at length, and often adding
further excerpts detailing his authorities' authorities. In fact, his
messages are frequently more heavily weighted toward text from famous
figures, user manuals or Wikipedia entries than toward his own
original thoughts or opinions.

5. The Antagonizer

Comment forums are made for divergent viewpoints and intelligent,
spirited debate. The Antagonizer, though, takes things to another,
more primitive level, resorting to personal attacks and insults in
what may be a nostalgic flashback to carefree bygone days as a third-
grade bully.

"Do I even have to explain how stupid of a name Stefan is for a man?"
one such person wrote on a popular tech blog's story about Apple's
touch-screens. He went on to close his remarks with this jab: "I bet
you shave your armpits." That's about as clever as the repartee gets
in Antagonizer Land; more often the insights run along the lines of
"You bleep!" "Bleep you!" "Bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep!" Proof
positive that, online, it isn't difficult for a person to be both loud
and boring.

6. The Moderator

Taking a slightly subtler approach to making visitors feel unwelcome,
the Moderator maintains an air of superiority as he bunkers down each
day on a particular site's comment section or message board for
another 16-hour stint as archivist-in-residence. He's the cool kid --
the site vet who's been around for a long time and knows what's what.
Leave a message that repeats something someone else said 16 months
ago, and he'll let you know about it within minutes.

"Um, yeah, Newbie0314, we talked about that back when
NeverTouchedAWoman24 brought the subject up last May. But thanks for
contributing, lol."

Treating the forum as his own private gated community, the (self-
appointed) Moderator seems to have adopted as his personal philosophy
the Pythonesque commandment "Every thread is precious." To keep each
discussion safe and pure, he will treat any commenter who has fewer
than 200 messages to his name as an undocumented invader who doesn't
deserve a spot on his beloved forum. All of this, we assume, from the
comfort of his parents' basement.

7. Peacekeeper

Another long-standing character common to forums is the Peacekeeper.
This guy has been a regular at a particular site as long as the
proprietor, but his goal as a participant has somehow devolved from
saying something interesting to keeping the peace -- and he has no
problem peppering every thread with his efforts to intervene as Mr.
Manners.

"Hey now, that's not appropriate," he may say. Or, "Let's watch the
language, OK?"

Though the Peacekeeper's intentions are good, his actions end up
clogging the forum with pages of useless and often long-winded
discussions of propriety that are every bit as annoying as the attacks
themselves. Worse, unlike the Antagonizer's antics, the Peacekeeper's
contributions can be virtually impossible to silence, even if you're
the site's moderator. After all, how do you tactfully tell a guy to
stop pacifying?

8. Smarty Pants

If the Peacekeeper is on a search-and-destroy mission against
offensive content, the Smarty Pants' goal is to find and expose
inaccuracies -- no matter how insignificant -- solely as a means to
demonstrate his intellectual superiority. A Smarty Pants constantly
runs a fine-toothed comb through both a site's original articles and
its comments in search of nits to pick: factual errors, grammatical
errors, typos -- it doesn't matter. The instant he finds one, he
pounces on the offending poster, thrashing him with the wet capellini
of his erudition.

Some of these hair-splitters will spend their days doing the spadework
necessary to prove a minor mistake in someone else's words. The most
obnoxious -- and yet most grimly satisfying -- kind of Smarty Pants,
though, is the one who bases his corrections on his own "infallible"
knowledge base. He might, for example, summon his Univac-like powers
of recall to dispute an author's mention of when a particular piece of
software came out.

"DOS 3.0 was not around in 1985," an actual comment from Digg reads,
referring to a story that mentioned various points of computer
history. "I bought my Tandy 1000 in 1987 and it came with DOS 2.11."

DOS 3.0 actually came out in 1984. This gomer, it would seem, simply
got ripped off late-'80s style. But as you introduce a Smarty Pants to
his richly deserved comeuppance, you can't help noticing that you have
just increased the online population of this particular scourge by
one.

9. Fanboy

The Fanboy defends a particular product under any circumstances, no
matter what the scenario. He is fervently aware that the Ford Pinto
was an excellent car as long you avoided rear-end collisions in it. He
also assumes that anyone who fails to praise said product to the skies
must be engaged in an irrational vendetta against it -- in effect, he
sees everyone who isn't a Fanboy as an Anti-Fanboy.

The most common Fanboy tendency is to worship either something (or
everything) Apple-related or something (or everything) Microsoft-
related. One unmistakable sign that you're dealing with a Fanboy of
this kind -- and not with just an enthusiast -- is that, even though
the object of his veneration is ultimately a product for sale, he
somehow manages to subordinate technological and monetary
considerations to moral imperatives.

10. The Conspiracy Theorist

This edgy fellow detects conspiracies (or the shadows of conspiracies)
in everything he reads, and he has no compunction about publicly
sharing his off-kilter suspicions. The Conspiracy Theorist is often
convinced that he's under constant surveillance by the government --
for some reason they've singled him out (and even more mysteriously,
they haven't bothered to terminate him yet, despite his constant
blabbing) -- and he sees signs of schemes in the strangest places. A
story about iPhones might inspire him to share how Apple is using "Q-
waves" to trace his thought patterns. A blog on the best browsers
could trigger a rant about the time he opened Internet Explorer and
saw a toxic waste symbol on his home page.

I don't pretend to understand how this quirky character's brain works.
I can only hope that the tin-foil hat he presumably wears most of the
time (though not shown here) helps prevent all those weird waves from
escaping his head as well as from entering it.

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