On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:11:22 -0600, Dan Nelson
 wrote:

>"Mad Hatter�" wrote:
>> 
>
>> Actually it was a blind estimate.  With your group snippage it's hard
>> to give an accurate number.  I think we started off with about ten.
>> Shall I add them back in for you, or was there some specific reason
>> you didn't want them there?

>Never snipped a group in this thread.  I rarely do, unless it's looking
>like I could get TOS'd over it, which is unlikely in any event, because
>I'm smart enough to cover tracks when being...mischievious.

Very good response, a lot of people would be jumping up and down and
screaming "NO I DIDN'T!" right about now.  `, )

>> >Quantity != quality.  And I seem to see the real Mad Hatter post fairly
>> >often yet, albeit not under that nym.
 
>> No, he doesn't post anymore actually.  If you think he does, you're an
>> idiot.

>We must be talking about different people.

I assume you're talking about the d00d who was in wired magazine.

>> >Probably because some cretin
>> >decided to destroy its mystique.  
 
>> Actually I'm increasing it.  Most would consider me to be the most
>> lethal and devastating troll in Usenet history.  No one can invoke the
>> kind of chaos and destruction I can.  I mean hell as we speak I have
>> nearly 22 people trying to flame against me and this has been a pretty
>> slow month cause I took a week off.  When I post into a group people
>> shut the fuck up and listen.  Take the Lego groups, when they found
>> out I was the Mad Hatter all hell broke loose.  They were so fuckin
>> paranoid they banned me off all their private news servers and sent
>> out hundreds of warning messages to all their members.  Or that e-book
>> newsgroup when I just sorta idly mentioned a way I could completely
>> destroy their online existence.  I mean you'd think I opened Pandora's
>> box or something.  YEESH, I can't remember a time when I had so many
>> complaints to Supernews.  In response Super kindly asked me not to
>> obliterate their pathetic little group, at which point I pointed out
>> that their charter was shit and they had no FAQ, thus, no rules.  So
>> you see, at this point I don't even need to DO anything.  I simply
>> need to show up and then just idly talk about doing something and
>> that's enough to send people tearing off into the streets in a panic.

>So you're the king of legos & e-books.  May I be the first to bow, your
>majesty?

So you're the king of shortsightedness.  Really Stupid, do you expect
me to go into details over every troll I've done?  I mean there are
literally hundreds to choose from.  Maybe you'd like to hear a few
tales about the vampire community, or perhaps some of the work I did
in the emulation communities (now THERE were some flame wars), or how
about my specialty, religious organizations?

>> >Nyms mean nothing,
 
>> You're right, they don't.  There have been lots of trolls who have
>> attempted forgeries in order to try and use my nyme as a means of
>> causing disruption.  And you know what?  It never seems to work for
>> them.  They never seem to create more than one or two posts.  Where as
>> when I make a post it has the likihood to spawn literally hundreds of
>> followups and dozens of thread offshoots.

>In the unlikely event your claim here is accurate, then you *have* seen
>some success trolling.

I spawned a 50,000 post flame war in the span of a single month,
single handedly throwing AHM and AUK into a year long flame war
against each other.  Nyme something you've seen that can even come
close to comparing to that.  BTW those 50,000 posts are only the posts
that directly focused around me and they also do not include the
garbage attack floods.

>> I'm more of just an interesting guy too....but not to you.  I have no
>> interests in sharing anything of relevance with you, to me you are
>> nothing but a part of the collective whole that's trying so
>> desperately to try and get back at the mean ol Hatter for fuckin up
>> various parts of Usenet.

>You are correct, you're not particularly interesting to me.  But it's a
>slow day in the Flonk.  

He invented the Flonk you know.  `, )

>>  And
>> actually you're wrong, a good flamer can break a person so badly they
>> will leave Usenet permanently or become a hopeless obsessive forever
>> following up your posts with post edits, fuckheadness, and desperate
>> claims of SPNAK.

>All because they feel dumb, which is what I said.

Oh I think it's more than that, I think a lot of them truly feel hurt
by what I say.  What was it that someone called it, my "mirror trick"
I believe.  The way I turn an opponents words into them and make them
attack themselves rather than me.

>> to get under peoples skin.  A lot of what I say hits a little too
>> close to home in my opponents.

>Well, a lot of what you say is about as useful as a waterproof sponge,
>too, but I won't hold that against you.

Usefulness doesn't come in bright box with a shiny bow across it and
instructions for people with learning disabilities like yourself.
Usefulness is attained through necessity and desire.  Neither of which
a dullard like you possesses.

>> You forgot to include critical thinking.  Logistical analysis can come
>> in handy.

>I suppose.

Not that anything you suppose is of any consequence.  You'll be dead
in less than 50 years, and when you die, no one will remember you for
anything.  Just be sure you think of me when your God kills you.  `, )

BTW I expanded the newsgroup line, we wouldn't want to keep this fun
between ourselves, now would we?  I think if I put in the right effort
I can have this thread of mine up to 2 or 3 hundred posts by the end
of next week.

-Mad Hatter