What pinged back in the day was that he always talked at people rather than to them. I found it odd and offputing, so I never tried interacting with him (as much as I interacted in those days, which was more than I do now).

Don't know if I'm making an equation

I don't see any more link between a liar like Gus and Loki than I do between Gus and Aphrodite, is what I'm saying.

By the time Gus established the slightest rep for not following through (i.e. the second time, and that's including his coding efforts), I was actively pissed at him. We still don't have decent tag closing code, and I'm too traumatised to start thinking about fixing it.

I meant what I said earlier -- when I realized everyone took the weremonkey bite thing seriously, I just backed off the whole thing. I didn't know him, hadn't really interacted with him, but that was too much for me. That said, I figured if everyone believed it, there had to be something to it? So I just ignored it, and him, and then he, you know, died. Or WHATEVER.

Can I suggest that we create a "morbid curiosity" (or something like that) group on FB, and take the Gus stuff over there? It makes me feel weird in ways that I can't quite verbalize adequately to talk about it at length here.

My issue with discussing it here is that I think, if he is lurking, talking about his is probably making him very happy and only encouraging him. Not that I am telling anyone to stop; it is just my own issues with feeding energy demons.

Can I suggest that we create a "morbid curiosity" (or something like that) group on FB, and take the Gus stuff over there?

So those of us that don't FB, but do Buffista don't get to see? He blanket friended Buffistas. If he didn't want to be talked about on, say, buffistas.org, he should have thought through his plan better.

I assumed he was drunk last night and sent out all the friend requests.

Yeah, I think drunk is a pretty good guess.

If he didn't want to be talked about on, say, buffistas.org, he should have thought through his plan better.

I think his plan may have been was to be talked about (as sj just said).

"It's better to be talked about than not be talked about."

The other thing is, all he does is lurk, everywhere. There's nothing on his FB page, and there's nothing on his Google+ page, or his LinkedIn, aside from references to The Site That Shall Not Be Named.

My feeling is he's never going to interact, and if he is lurking, his takeaway from me can be, get help, man. And if not, enjoy your whacko life as another stupid interwebs curiosity.

Infamy's not as good as fame but it's heaps better than obscurity.

He needs a hobby. I mean, other than whatever this little routine he's going through on the internet.