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I wonder if they realize that plutarch has taken the Readers Digest® concept and incorporated it here?

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EDIT: sorry--I deleted what I had written earlier; I had been thinking merely of R.'sD., and didn't take in until coming back this time that the opening post had mentioned a member by name. That was meaner than I want to be.

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did you read the thread about there being no rules.. (mind you, there are ROBberies.

Oh, yeah, and ROB is just another AKA for Plutarch..

i wonder if there is a word for being tortured by boring text.


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Overlords? We've got overlords? I thought this was an anarcho-syndicalist collective!


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> the opening post had mentioned a member by name

I'm not sure that it did the first time your read it...



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meaner than I want to be.

Mentioning plutarch by name is mean??? Well, strike me down for being a meany.

We've got overlords?

I'm sure that you ask this with irony, Faldage; and that's the way I used it too. (I can't believe the overlords let certain individuals run roughshod through these forums.)

I'm not sure that it did the first time your read it...

Huh?!? I'm not one to do stealth edits, although I know y'all are used to that sort of thing here.



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You said:

Huh?!? I'm not one to do stealth edits, although I know y'all are used to that sort of thing here.

No, though I am quite new here, I was taken aback in another thread when plutarch edited one of his screeds after I had posted a response, and the purpose of the edit appeared to have been to make me look a fool.

The sheer dishonesty of editing a post without including a caveat speaks ill of that person, and I will no longer post to a thread on which he has posted.

Nor will I read a thread which he has originated. I seem to be in very good company on that, judging from all the threads in which plutarch is talking to himself only.

At first I wondered why so many people appeared to be reading those threads, and then I realized that it must be plutarch himself who keeps reopening the threads to up his "click count", about which he has made at least two boasts in recent days. It would not surprise me to learn that he suffers from terminal callus of the clicking finger.

Actually, in thinking about it, I question whether I shall continue to participate here. There is great potential, but plutarch's evils have poisoned this venue perhaps beyond resuscitation.

Sadly,

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Curly, the one-in-many in question professes not to read this forum. Maybe it would be a good idea if you would repeat your post in one of the forums he/they do(es) read. Don't go away (edit: as so many others have done), just because of one troll. Or at least, stay in touch with me, please!


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I question whether I shall continue to participate here.


I'm in agreement with you, CPat. I'm leaving before I ever really got started. I guess I'm just not all that much of a Contrarian.

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or send a email to Anu.. let him know how Plutarch's behavior effects you, and your willingness to particapate here.

give specific examples, Churl, note your discomfort with the edit, or note his many 'ploys' (power posting --comment after comment) or hijacking (to spew forth on his personal "idea's) or MacGruffins'--post that look like they might be about words, that posters attempt to make about words, but the HE uses to just go on about 'the media cult' or other "issues' he has.

Make it clear, Plutarch is a disruptive influence and treats every one (not simple the "cabal of carpel's") rudely.


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