[quote=Rich Toscano][quote=bearishgurl]For whatever reason, flu, your animosity and bitterness (currently towards me) has been shining on high beam around here in recent weeks. I thinks its well past time that you block me so you aren’t bothered by my posts … especially during the business day when you are supposedly “working.” You’ve turned into the “Champion Thread Polluter” extraordinaire.[/quote]

Don’t worry bg, you’re still the reigning champ!

Well, I was going to just leave it at that, but it feels too snarky to just make a comment like that without explaining the grievance behind it.

Speaking not as the site owner here, but just an observer — a guy who reads the comments. I’m hard pressed to find any significant thread where you have not written epic length posts, a good proportion of which fall into one (or more!) of the following categories:

– barely relevant
– even less relevant than that
– not even understandable, really
– wild speculation presented as fact

And I’ll admit to some personal bias here, but it doesn’t help that so many of your novel-length comments these days are impassioned defenses of that goose-stepping canned ham who you inexplicably think would be a good president.

So, when you actually accuse someone else of being a Champion(!) Thread Polluter… boy, I just can’t sit back and watch that without saying something.

To end on a positive note, I do appreciate that you usually keep things polite and positive, and you are a good citizen in following the “no political threadjacks” rule. But with that said, if you think “Thread Pollution” is a problem… you should take a look at your own posts and consider how you might be contributing to it.[/quote]Well, Rich, I actually haven’t commented on why anyone would make a good president so I don’t know where you are seeing that. I’ve only commented on the process (delegate count, prediction thread, etc) and that I was a one-issue voter this year. That issue was to abolish the ACA. If anything, I have been attacked by others here and accused of being a “racist” and “woman-hater” because I posted that I changed my longtime voter registration from Dem to Rep back in April. Other longtime Piggs have also stated that they intended to vote Rep this year for President but quickly shut down and stopped posting after that, no doubt when they saw all the hateful comments directed at me.

I honestly don’t care if anyone reading my posts “believes” them or not. They are welcome to find out for themselves whether they are accurate, semi-accurate … or not accurate. In this particular case, I understand the geography of the area, I understand the demographics/culture of the area. I understand why the infrastructure around there is a bit “scanty” (even though CPW proposed to make more improvements around there). In this particular instance, I get it all, Rich. No one can take that away from me.

Every now and then, we get a prospective buyer on the forum that, based upon their posts and linked listings, they (and often their agent) appear to the reader to have absolutely no idea what it is that they are actually looking at. If I see the thread and I can offer any useful suggestions, I often do. They can take it or leave it.

Caveat emptor, as they say in real-estate speak!

Pigg flu has acted ridiculous in recent weeks, trolling around after my posts and not adding anything useful to the thread but instead taking every opportunity to insert a little barb or insult directed at me. Most of the time (if I see them), I just brush them off. In the past, he’s posted dozens of solid rows of “hieroglyphics” and other symbols to block others’ posts and even pulled this stunt to pollute his own thread (at least one). If you don’t mind your bandwidth used up in this manner, than neither do I. At the very least, it’s immature and detracts from the reading pleasure of this forum.

Rich, are you saying that you would rather read “tweets” from me? I type 85-90 wpm so typing a 4-paragraph post probably doesn’t take me as long as it would another Pigg to type one paragraph. In addition, I only visit this site when I am at my desk, on a desktop computer. I do not visit it from devices.