Dear Friends:
I have made this offer many times before, and honored it faithfully each time, and I will once again now for the record.
Anyone who leaves me in peace will be left in peace in return.
There is no mean-spirited, abusive strategy that some of you people have not practiced on me, alone or in concert, including trying to intimidate me in my personal life by spreading lies, in the beginning in malacious PMs, and now even onscreen.
I cautioned some months ago that I will no longer absorb your abuse without answering back. As you know, I tried ignoring the warmongering of ASp and Of Troy by turning the other cheek for over three months, from December '04 through March '05, and it didn't work. My refusal to respond to their insults and innuendos only escalated the ferocity of their abuse.
While I will continue to defend myself when attacked without provocation, I will continue to do so honorably. I will not resort to the tactics which some of you employ against me - including the use of vulgarities, malacious PMs which include libels, contrived complaints about inoffensive posts, and constant harping and sermonizing and haranguing about real or imagined peccadillos, current or ancient.
Some of you don't like my limericks. Fine. I moved them into limerick threads in "Wordplay and Fun" to keep you happy.
I thought it best to quote this post in its entirety before you go back and change it.
As I recall (and my memory is faulty! I don't keep records), first you decided to polarize with tsuwm and Faldage. Now it's Helen and me. There may have been others in between.
The big picture is you exhibit all the traits of a troll; the main one in your case is the apparent need for this board to feed your ego. Your disruptions are driving away people, both oldtimers and newcomers, who want to discuss words and language by the dozens. Why stay at a party when no one wants you here? I've got an idea: start a blog and you can post to your heart's content and keep Paris Hilton happy at the same time.
