Upon the advisement of the moderation, I am here reposting my report of Serious Paul's post in the thread about the #rpgnet channel.

QuoteCan we just ban this useless little shit-stirrer already?  He doesn't  even give a shit about any of us, or the topic of conversation at hand at any given moment, he's just got to stir the pot.  Jumps into any random conversation and frequently starts attacking both sides, which ever  will give him the best results.

This is just a perfect example of his trolling.  He has never once, to my knowledge, logged on to the #rpgnet channel once in the half dozen years I've been chatting there, he knows nothing about the channel, the situation, or any of the people involved, has no stake in the conversation whatsoever, yet he has to try and stir the shit as much as he can anyway.

You wanna ban someone for being disruptive, well here you go.  Between  this, his Animalball spamming, the pathetic attempt at fomenting a board war, and his general tendency to do nothing but fan the flames and drama of any given discussion, he's proven himself time and again to do nothing whatsoever but stir shit.

His actual RPG posts usually amount to token efforts, seemingly culled from a script, which mostly seem to involve shilling Shadowrun and bragging about how many copies of it he owns.  The rest is just more shitstirring, just on RPG topics instead of forum politics.  For the record, I apologize for my part in this, as this attempt at token RPG discussion involvement seems to have primarily inspired by the last time I called him out publicly for his behavior.

Regardless, while I am generally in support of the hands-off nature of the moderation here, I must nevertheless state that this poster seems in every way fitting in the category of disruptive, perhaps more so than any of the posters previously addressed on a moderation level by right if it's insidiousness.

While the post in the #rpgnet thread may seem small, it is part of a pattern of his presence here thatseems to be purely about disrupting as much as humanly possible.  Consider it sort of a "last straw" moment.  If you want a more salient example, look at his and the rest of his Animalball buddies pathetic attempt at fomenting a board war with the recent thread related to their podcast.  Past behaviors indicate a pattern of chasing any potential drama he can exploit and further incite for his own amusement and that of his audience at Animalball, often then disappearing for weeks at a time until some new crest of flamage, and in some cases just scattershot attacking both sides of a given debate, simply to piss everyone off.

As far as I'm concerned, he's a damn troll, and the forum would miss him no more than it misses Dominus Nox.

He's been on my ignore list for a long time. If you think his posts are worthless, why haven't you put him on yours?  As for me, it's the same whether he posts or not.

I too find his posts to be almost entirely devoid of content, and pretty much agree with your initial analysis. There's nothing worse than a failed comedian who thinks he's still funny.

That said I'm with hgjs. It's better just to ignore him. I don't see him as anywhere near the kind of toxic presence that Nox was, and would prefer it the site didn't make a habit of banning every wanker who can string a sentence together.

I'm flattered Jenny, you care! A shame you're so afraid of me you have to try and resort to this sort of draconian measures. Feel free to ban me-I'd laugh my ass off, all the way.

That said this is really just Jenny's problem, and no one else's, so I suspect she'll just be told to cope with her difficulties, and to stop being such a sissy. (Of course I've been wrong before.)

This is going to come as a surprise, but I'm with J Arcane on this one.  Enough is enough, can't you just ban him already?  The only thing he accomplishes on this site is: (1) to post up about games with opinions others don't agree with and (2) highly entertain people who aren't the subject of his jokes.

Quite frankly, I think the RPG site is spreading Paul too thin.  Do us a favor and ban him for whatever reasons you want to create so I don't have to share him with you anymore.

Or I suppose you could take the website away for another four days and hope he forgets about it.  But that didn't work last time.

I don't see any grounds for banning, or even talking about it, really.

Here we go again...

Why don't you just put him on your damn ignore list?


TGA

The reall question we should be asking is: does he weigh more than a duck?

Quote from: James McMurrayThe real question we should be asking is: does he weigh more than a duck?

Unfortunately in my current injured reserve status I weigh the exact same amount as the duck I have. However, were you to have a different duck I'm sure we could get a better estimate!

Now was that an African duck, or a European duck? Just for measurement purposes!

European of course. You know, the 4' tall kind.

Stuff and nonsense. You know what you're going to get with Serious Paul (there's a misnomer if ever there was one!) and the other animalball guys. Lighten up.

I have a question for you though J. From reading your posts recently, do you even like anybody or anything about this place? Apart from your excellent posts on the gaming forum, you're beginning to sound like that other ray of sunshine Kiero. 'Nah, don't like that, don't like him, could have been done better.' As i said before, lighten up mate! There's room for fun on the boards isn't there? (even if what some people find funny ain't) If the fun or irrelevant stuff stays off the actual top 4 sub-forums of the page, what's the damage? Indeed, the odd fun thread on any forum is a break. For example, James McMurrays two threads on the old d&d cartoons. They're pretty irrelevant to the forum they are posted in. But it's supposed to be fun. Haven't seen any complaints about those.

Quote from: One Horse TownSerious Paul (there's a misnomer if ever there was one!)

True story: My name was given to me by a secretive group of Tibetan Monkey Priests who worship an infernal god, who's name can not be muttered.

Also I'm allergic to Goulash.

Quote from: One Horse TownFor example, James McMurrays two threads on the old d&d cartoons. They're pretty irrelevant to the forum they are posted in. But it's supposed to be fun. Haven't seen any complaints about those.

I'm complaining. . .  Complaining that Shadow Demon got no votes and a buncha goobers voted with their animated panty sniffing fetishes.

Quote from: One Horse TownStuff and nonsense. You know what you're going to get with Serious Paul (there's a misnomer if ever there was one!) and the other animalball guys. Lighten up.

I have a question for you though J. From reading your posts recently, do you even like anybody or anything about this place? Apart from your excellent posts on the gaming forum, you're beginning to sound like that other ray of sunshine Kiero. 'Nah, don't like that, don't like him, could have been done better.' As i said before, lighten up mate! There's room for fun on the boards isn't there? (even if what some people find funny ain't) If the fun or irrelevant stuff stays off the actual top 4 sub-forums of the page, what's the damage? Indeed, the odd fun thread on any forum is a break. For example, James McMurrays two threads on the old d&d cartoons. They're pretty irrelevant to the forum they are posted in. But it's supposed to be fun. Haven't seen any complaints about those.

seconded.  if bugs you that bad, IL him.

and, 4' tall ducks?  wtf?  so, there are runequest duck midgets in europe, then?  that would explain a lot.  now off to that panty-vending machine. . . .

I will always be in support of letting people be utter boobs here as long as they don't play one trick ponies with general flamebait (like a certain Nox), and I have an ignore list to shut them up when it gets overwhelming.