For brain bleach, can someone Nilly the night of Nilly comes to America goes from an idle thought to reality?

I'm pretty sure it is in one of the archived .zip files.

eta: Yep, the first Minearverse thread. [link]

Post 4576

That's the night I joined the board! Happy all around.

That's my favorite part of Allyson's awesome book.

Allyson - post 4728 - Your generosity sparkles and dances. When fit hits the shan around here, remember this. This sort of connection with the world is what the 'net is for.

I'm in favor of sharing the info with them. It may shed more light on the whole issue over there. His behavior to us was public (in that this is a public board) and there is nothing wrong with sharing that public behavior with others. Besides, he's a tool.

I'm in favor of sharing the info with them. It may shed more light on the whole issue over there. His behavior to us was public (in that this is a public board) and there is nothing wrong with sharing that public behavior with others. Besides, he's a tool.

I agree with Scrappy on this, for the record.

Of course, I'd also be wanting to put a registration-by-request system in for, say 3 months after taking the information wider, but that's possibly overkill.

I agree with Scrappy on this, for the record.

Of course, I'd also be wanting to put a registration-by-request system in for, say 3 months after taking the information wider, but that's possibly overkill.

I agree with Plei and Scrappy on this.

Does anyone see him doing there, what he did, here?

In my head, he committed Buffista pseudicide to keep his wiki's reputation safe from all the tall tales he spun, over here. I have no facts to support that opinion. It is just how I've made sense of it, over the years.

Now, his wiki has reputation problems of its own, but they seem (from a cursory glance) to be caused by poor management decisions and moderation, rather than by being a fabulist. Is our experience relevant to anything going on at the wiki? What will/can sharing it accomplish? What will the fallout be, for this community? Will we be courting the ire of a bunch of people, some of whom post really despicable garbage?

I think "Gus" was smart, funny, creative -- and with us, he was also dishonest, and ultimately cruel. But, until his dramatic exit, he never caused problems on our board. I know, at first glance, that could read like, "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" My point is that, given how non-trollish he was for the 3 or 4 years he was on the board, I fInd it hard to believe in my heart that he meant to be cruel. And, speaking personally, even if he did, I forgave him long ago.

I think someone who spins elaborate fables for years, as I believe he did, must have a mental illness. I also think that site is probably his livelihood. And I think it's likely he has some physical ailment, too. He never tried to scam us out of money (although I'm not sure what his intent was with tommyrot and the car, "Gus" aborted the caper). I haven't read anything that leads me to believe he's scamming his own community.

The eyes of the Internet are already on him for what he is doing on the wiki. The Something Awful forum has so far had five huge threads about the wiki. It's an ongoing thing for them, like natter is for us. I couldn't give them a thorough read, because their focus is on the gross conversations that happen on the wiki. From what I gleaned though, he seems guilty of inept yet capricious moderation, but appears to be addressing (or trying to address) the issue, now that it has gotten press.

I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do. I know, these days, I'm not really a Buffista, so I'm just speaking as a Friend of Buffistas. This FoB made peace with this, as soon as I was confident that this community wasn't mourning someone I didn't and don't believe died. I forgave him and let it go. All I ask is this, please consider how much good and how much harm sharing our story might do, and to whom?

I fInd it hard to believe in my heart that he meant to be cruel

This? Does not salve the wound. I was casually a fucking prick, I didn't mean to be a fucking prick, just switches around some of the qualifiers on what flavour of fucking prick he was.

The prickness is still up front and centre.

I don't think there's anything about this situation that would be fixed by revealing the public story (security by obscurity--gotta love it), but then again, there's honesty, and I quite like that. Even if it's a case of volunteering the info, instead of being asked.