If that’s the worst you can find, I’ll take that as a compliment. Notice there’s no name-calling and not even so much as an all caps shout. Your record (what hasn’t been deleted) is more problematic:
Xarax, you are a charlatan and also a nuisance. It is still not acceptable to take someone else’s image and post it as though it were yours.
I never threatened you, I didn’t call you names, but you are constantly answering with profanity, namecalling and ethnically derogatory remarks when you are caught pants down with your stupidity. The reason for respecting the rights of other people of course is that we should be civil in the forum, and that also requires respecting each other’s rights. I won’t take anyone to court for copying my images save cases where there would be an economic outcome. But I will still scorn anyone, who, unable to make a decent image himself, nicks those that someone else put down the effort to make.
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In plain English, most of the time you’re a PITA, and largely you do not contribute in a constructive way. Maybe the best way to react to your profanity would be blowing you raspberries at the computer screen, so childish has the forum become at your grace.
I think the ban is way overdue. It was like wathing a bad instant replay, the same thing over and over and over, but when the violence indicator in the way of a veiled threat of harm with the comments of guns and killing people came into play, it should have been stopped right then and there. JMO
With all due respect, I suggest that you better reflect on both the actual
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Then, beyond all this, there was the repeated posting of the
xarax:
i]“knots solve some problems, not in serious , life threatening situations any more…”major problem, they are not useful in any serious situation.”critical situations -(like the situations addressed by Heraklas, at 100 AD, read the reference in the relevant thread )”crucial every day problems ? No !”u [/u] applications as tools is an art that belongs to the past.”[/i]
??? I recently read a case where a climber applied a Prusik Hitch somehow to save the life a climbing buddy. (He called it a Prusik hitch anyway.) Apparently, all the other tools on the rope had failed. The climber buddy was slipping to his death, and the climber needed to apply a knot then and there QUICKLY. This case isn’t the only one of it’s kind that happens regularly. I won’t bother to find the case because you’ll dismiss it somehow. So, I don’t want to waste my time.
Further, in average rock and tree climbing, application of properly tied knots is a life or death matter. It doesn’t get anymore critical and serious than that. No, the stimulation you get from analyzing knots as structures is NOT as important, sorry.
xarax:
Most people, knot tyers included, believe that a knot is a means to an end rather than an end in itself. […]mob - perhaps because established religious fundamentalists can not tolerate heretics !
xarax:
Personally, I do not accept ANY advice, from Moderators who allow members to have THIS as their “signature” :
Who would be upset about instructions on blocking a troll? It sounds like an admission of guilt if there ever was one.
xarax:
Climbers are sooo poor knot tyers ! They know only a very small number of knots ( and they even naively believe that these knots are the only ones, and the best possible ones, suitable for them, simply because they do not know anything else…), they do not know ( and they do not want to learn ) how those knots “work”, they do not know ( and they do not want to try to figure out ) how to improve them, and, last but not least, they just do not care about knots !
xarax your conceited garbage gets moderated once (I think it was twice actually in this thread but it’s all running together so I’m not sure now) and you post it back up? Mods, I will refrain once, but this is absurd. He would be banned anywhere else. …
Since I believe most know what an internet troll is, I will start by saying that to allow consistently argumentative, unfair, out of context, disruptive, provocative, deluded, offensive, harassing and inflammatory posts against other forum members is to ask for trouble. Yes, the conventional wisdom is “to not feed the troll”. In the case when one’s posts are continually the target of trolling, this is easier said than done. It is unfortunate that so many threads have either been ruined or highly tainted by trolling. Removing the affected threads is probably a good idea, but, it is an unfortunate loss and addresses the symptoms and not the causes. The root cause remains a threat.