Topic: Why I am glad I have clowned around on this forum... (Read 5057 times)

Atlas has been trolling everyone for a while, except the forums all knew and troll him back.  But both sides know this right?  Everyone just has a lot of free time right?   I mean I know I do when I can semi keep up with this stuff.  Does Atlas still post on those scam forums that the Goons had linked to back in the day?

Yeah I don't think so either.... this guy has bad grammar, unlike Atlas, who had better grammar, albeit a terrible vocabulary.

It is nice to have slightly less trash to wade through when reading the forum

Hahaha

No, too reasonable, and not enough unilaterals and desires. 

I am about 95% certain sabiwabi is atlas: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/why-are-people-losing-faith-51322

Yeah, I've been trying to figure out the other 15.  wtf man, I guess he really can disguise himself?!
Or maybe the other 15 are just 0-post nobodies.

Atlas is still here. He's got to be. It's just too quiet. He's like Jason.

Sorry about that, my only experience with Ukraine is via the media, and a few Ukrainian-Americans who virtually never mentioned that country outside of "in my old country".

Edited to fix.

Seriously...I think the Atlas Identifier only has like, six of them pegged now?

21 alts?!  I was giving him shit because I thought he had four or five. 

I think it's because a lot of us grew up during the cold war when former soviet block borders were about as steady as a five year old's handwriting. They shouldn't take it personally.

As a Ukrainian, it's not "the Ukraine" any more than America is "the America"
I don't know why people started calling it that, but people of that nation find it weird and slightly degrading.
Also, totally agree about their comparatively shitty quality of medicine, life, crime, corruption etc.

I see a lot of myself (when much, much younger) in Atlas in certain ways.

What he needs to understand is that he doesn't know shit. I mean he really needs to understand it, not spew forth a bunch of wannabe-zen bullshit logic like "I unremorsefully admit that I know very little and am learning every day" while continuing to be a pretentious fuckwit everywhere he goes. I mean he really needs to get it.

He needs to quit talking "bootstraps", when you can tell just by his YouTube videos that given his upbringing he has a very skewed definition of what "bootstraps" actually means. He needs to understand that by virtue of his situation, no matter what menial achievement he reaches it will never be a case of "well if I can do it, everyone can."

Atlas, I heartily recommend travel, since your parents seem affluent enough to let you put yourself in a position to make it happen once high school is done. You once mentioned that because of the "free market" you could get a broken leg set and cast in Asia for $200USD. I would definitely insist that you go there, or maybe somewhere like Ukraine, and see how "Doctors" live when they work for those prices, and perhaps check out the quality of the work and the sterile environments too.

But mostly travel because it's fatal to ignorance, which you are absolutely pouring with right now. Going to school in Chicago won't do it, you can likely find a mob of objectivist upper-middle-class douchebags where you can fit right in with, you need to get completely out of your comfort zone and experience some shit.

Finally, and this was the hard-learned lesson for me, you really may consider talking less and listening more. I've found that you occasionally learn (or at least develop a better understanding) by explaining a useful concept to someone who doesn't get it (I had a massive "oh shit" moment regarding pointers in C many many years ago, while trying to articulate my ill-founded understanding to someone who was utterly clueless), but for the most part you don't learn anything by talking.

The day he was banned he admitted in a thread that he was off his meds, then proceeded to derail virtually every thread in general discussion (maybe other forums too I wasn't checking them).  The posts have since been deleted and cleaned up so it may seem like it wasn't warranted, but it was.  Luckily he was mostly being ignored, but it only takes one person taking the bait to ruin a thread.  


What SA trolls?  They don't care about this place anymore, they even closed their bitcoin thread because they got bored.  It looks like you are trying to spin this situation into something it isn't.  Atlas wasn't banned because of something someone else said or did, he was banned because he spent an entire day posting off topic and irrelevant replies and disrupting real discussion in every thread he showed up in.  Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen.  In this case it's Atlas being the troll. 

Thanks guys, the Reddit posts were hilarious.

NO GODS. NO MASTERS.

FUCK YOU, GOT MINE!

Really, I’m not sure if he has ever had any to begin with.

Atlas was banned for two days after I deleted this obviously off-topic chain of insults (cunicula was also banned for a few days):

Then he posted this and I extended the ban to 7 days:

Then he posted this and I made the ban permanent and also banned his alts (all 21 of them):

This all seems reasonable and fair to me. It is possible that he will be unbanned in the future (months from now, at least) if he regains his sanity.

I'm pretty sure Atlas himself posted that he'd been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome some years back.

Do you seriously believe that Atlas hasn't got a history of derailing threads with his off-topic posts (not to mention starting topics which don't belong in the Discussion forum there so that they'll get more exposure)?  It's one thing to argue that shitting up threads with off-topic posts shouldn't be a ban-able offence, but another entirely to claim that Atlas hasn't repeatedly done it.

Would you be happier if theymos introduced a rule banning alt. accounts so that Atlas was restricted to a single username which people could put on their ignore list?  Is there some reason why Atlas should be exempt from the rules which other posters are expected to follow?  Is your issue with the fact that someone got permabanned for trying to circumvent a temporary ban or is it because it was Atlas in particular who got banned?

No the kid is just trying to fit in. He thinks he has the perfect answers to all of life's problems, yet he doesn't understand that we as adults have already processed most of his flawed (yet hopeful) ideology. Regardless he doesn't deserve to be banned from this forum. He is a contributor, and contributors don't get banned from communities who use them on a daily basis... As far as him having "Asperger Syndrome" I call complete bullshit... Atlas may be off-base but he's definitely not "off topic"... It looks like the SA trolls are trying to hijack this entire situation, and trying to paint Atlas as the villain, when he's clearly not. Theymos may be pushing his power a bit to far in this situation...

I think it makes him feel superior or something.