^REPORTED

I'm amazed this one survived as long as it did. His previous sock, RealityCheck71, only lasted a month.

ETA: I forgot Crunched_Frog, which lasted a mere three days. There are probably others I am unaware of.

If they wanted to be successful with a new sock, there would already be an account that's a year or so old with a posting history that will start to be more active.

Oh, totally. All I'd have to do is register at the derp and then turn into a loudmouthed hyper-opinionated dickswinging jackass for a year or two. Just one tiny toe over the line and they give you the bum's rush! Its a mine field out there.

6 warnings and 2 suspensions. He was closing in on BigT numbers.

A Doper liked my book!

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-...gestion/940990

I only got 5 warnings and 1 suspension. I'm pissed at the leeway they give all those 'old-timers' like BigTurd and the Fig... oh, wait...

You know if you're gonna make a sock to promote your book try not to be so spammy.

Just kidding. :hug:

It's in my queue on my tablet, I swear I'll get around to it!

I just bought it from B&N for the Nook. I'll read it after I finish The Expanse.

Thanks to both of you and I hope you enjoy the book!

And I swear it's not a sock!

Wait, so you're a multi-fameless author?

My good man, how would you know that if it wasn't your sock?

Hey! He's got RealityChuck beat! People are saying they like it, instead of posting reviews pointing out all the ridiculous plot-holes he forgot to fill...

Jim_B has a food strong.

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wh...rey-tea/941081

also lissener is not happy with his grocs.

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wh...n-minis/941075

But but ... Claussen minis, man!!

4 1/2 stars on goodreads!

:D

I kind of feel his pain. I whinged in a Quarantine thread about since the pandemic the eggs I get from my local Aldi are smaller than the specifications should allow. You can actually feel the difference in your hand, or at least I can, and when I check them on my scale they are sure enough undersize, sometimes substantially., so now I gotta sort the eggs and use the undersized ones for omelets and the regular ones for baking. First world problems, amirite?

New VPN? The dope doesn't block registrations under VPNs period? Oh? ;)

That would work in theory, but trolls need instant gratification!

I use a VPN 24/7 and the Durp does not seem to notice. Once in a great while a specific server might cough up a notice if I'm logging in but I just change to a different one and all is well.

I think there was a discussion a while back about banning VPNs, and the decision was that there were too many people who might have a legit reason for using one, so they are allowed.

Wowzers!

The PTB still think VPNs are only for troublemakers? Aren't they pretty much standard nowadays?

The PTB say "WTF? VPNs are NFG and DOA", but I think they're NBD. LOL.

Ok, I don't know what all the abbreviations mean, but yeah, generally speaking everyone and their grandma (if assisted by their millennial grandkids) has a VPN these days.

They don't need to ban all VPN users—just the ones who sound exactly like CarnalK.

The vast majority of users post from home or from their mobile device. Some also post from work or school. Very few legitimate users (not zero, but not many) post from a VPN.

The vast majority of VPN registrations are from spammers. A small number are from socks. Legitimate users almost never register from a VPN.

So no, definitely nowhere near standard these days, at least among doper registrations.

Yes but isn't the average Doper 187 years old and is still learning how to use the wheel? :lawn:

Wheel? I can carry everything I need with a travois and my old mule Compound. You can keep that hifalutin wheel stuff.

Travois? Mule? Kids these days. Lazy as hell. If I can't carry it in my hands, I don't need it.
:lawn:

Hands? Pah. A pseudopod was good enough for my dad and it's good enough for me! :rant:

Air breathers... :rolleyes:

At least I breathe something, vacuum boy.

You fancy kids with your molecules and matter... In my day we had no existence other than a screaming black void in which nothing could escape!

Why are voids always black?

John Oliver's is white. Check it out, every Sunday on HBO.

You and your fancy pseudopods. If I want to take something with me, I just flow around it and assimilate it.

WOULD YOU NERDS CUT IT OUT AND POST SOME SNARK ALREADY :boom:

SOME SNARK

H e said somewhere--I forget where--that people tell him he looks like Kyle Gass from Tenacious D, so you are in the right ballpark.

I was going to post about BigT buying Stax by the case, but that's kind of lame, so I won't.

There's also a shampoo thread, and I've been expecting somebody to brag about never washing their hair, but so far it's a bust. I got my hopes up when jjakucyk said that you don't really need to wash your hair once it reaches "equilibrium," but then he chickened out and said he doesn't actually do that.

Are we in a snark drought? :( Maybe I'm not looking in the right threads.

Ah, okay, I remember that now. I don't recall if I got the Melman idea before or after that, but I always did visualize him as gnomish.

What with the moderator's reduced tolerance of tedious people and most snark targets having moved on, this will probably be ongoing (the irony of lamenting a lack of snark being at odds with a better message board culture not lost on me...).

Holy crap! That's awful!! Can't they release some stored snark from a reservoir or something?

One to watch: DrDerp's dad (or friend, or whatever) bought a coke in nineteen dickety something and it tasted watered down, so McDonald's must have a nationwide policy of watering down the coke.

There isn't any. Snark is highly perishable.
RetroSnark is made by a process that no one has been able to reproduce or even understand how it works.

The point is that he’s doing he same shit again. Hijacking a thread about the ice cream machines and derailing it with the coke bullshit. Two days after he promised to try harder.

And as a bonus, he writes "sez" for "says" and then defends it against criticism as a totally legit (recognized by Cecil!) alternate spelling.

Black Voids Matter.