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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2004-06-20 10:37 pm
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Restraining Fist of Death.

The level of idiocy on the Traveller Mailing List is about to push me out the door.

People whinging about their favorite edition of Traveller not being supported, even though it ceased publication in 1987, people whinging about not wanted to have to do any work to use game books, personal insults, complaints about "too many words" in posts explaining complex scientific concepts!

That, and movie reviews, game reviews, and all sorts of Off-Topic crap. A hell of a lot of this can be traced to one idiot.

I'm this close to being off a list I've been on since the first day I had Internet access, about ten years ago.

What is going to happen is I'm pulling back for a while. And I may killfile two certain idiots (Certain idiots? Yes, I'm quite certain they're idiots...)

Going to go take my aggravation out on a brownie. Fear for it.
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[identity profile] aurictech.livejournal.com 2004-06-20 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Based on a comment you made at BayCon, I'm quite certain that I know who one of the miscreants is. I strongly suspect that the other is the recent target of certain "list etiquette" posts (pertaining to constant thread-name changing)....

In both cases, I'd say you're quite justified in plonking them. Please don't leave the TML, though. You remained despite C**f; I hope that you can stick around despite these two second-stringers.

[identity profile] isomeme.livejournal.com 2004-06-20 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes a list-vacation is just what the doctor ordered. Not forever, but long enough to let the raw-nerve annoyance level drop a little. Even elite troops need to be rotated off the front lines now and then. :)
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[personal profile] kengr 2004-06-21 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Wopuld that be the same person who I "called" on trying to tell me what all players had to be like after he'd accudsed me of the same?

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2004-06-21 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
The one and the same.

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2004-06-21 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Seeing as how I'm one of those who MADE a "hey, knock it off" post, I hope you know that I agree and you have my support.

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2004-06-23 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Also, his repeated statement that he refuses to pay "top dollar" (read: cover price) for new books that do not completely satisfy him has driven me to the brink of asking what does he expect, a blow job?

"If it has CT in it, I will buy it." Great. That's ONE SALE. I'm sure Steve Jackson is wetting himself over that vast untapped market.
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