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Kishkumen wrote:Not only not nice, but not at all true.

Darth J is relentlessly moral, whereas Yahoo Bot is perhaps the most unprincipled brown shirt thug I have ever had the misfortune to encounter online.

I was referring to Bot, not Darth J, who is a mensch.

He is the sort of person who should give anyone with a conscience the willies.

That's my impression of Yahoo Bot--no conscience and no empathy. It ought to scare the crap out of people that he was a bishop.

Darth J can also read very well, and he is honest enough to call it as it is.

Agreed.

Yahoo Bot can read, but he makes sure that his representation of whatever he reads serves the purposes of his tribe and his sadistic pleasure.

Like I said, he's an ass.

Bob Loblaw wrote:Like I said, he's an ass.

And a highly intelligent one. He is not always wrong. I can agree with Bot at times, and I think he called the classic-FARMS implosion pretty well. He saw that the OMIDs were shooting themselves in the foot, and he had the wherewithal to speak his mind directly to them. So, maybe it is not the case that he has no principles.

He just has screwy ones, and if you are in his blind spot, he probably has almost no principles where you are concerned.

Or maybe not. Thinking about him makes me sick to my stomach.

He is quite intelligent. But a highly intelligent troll with no principles isn't someone I admire.

Bob Loblaw wrote:He is quite intelligent. But a highly intelligent troll with no principles isn't someone I admire.

Yes. Troll is the label that allows me to stomach seeing him here.

Kishkumen wrote:Yahoo Bot can read, but he makes sure that his representation of whatever he reads serves the purposes of his tribe and his sadistic pleasure.

Years ago when I first started reading Bob's stuff, he came across as reasonable and fairly civil. Then something happened, and he turned bitter, caustic, and, as you say, "sadistic." I don't know what brought about this change, but it clearly hasn't been healthy for him.

Rollo Tomasi wrote:Years ago when I first started reading Bob's stuff, he came across as reasonable and fairly civil. Then something happened, and he turned bitter, caustic, and, as you say, "sadistic." I don't know what brought about this change, but it clearly hasn't been healthy for him.

Maybe I should be glad I wasn't around when he was civil and reasonable because I would probably feel sad for what he is now. He doesn't seem very happy to me.

Bob Loblaw wrote:

Rollo Tomasi wrote:Years ago when I first started reading Bob's stuff, he came across as reasonable and fairly civil. Then something happened, and he turned bitter, caustic, and, as you say, "sadistic." I don't know what brought about this change, but it clearly hasn't been healthy for him.

Maybe I should be glad I wasn't around when he was civil and reasonable because I would probably feel sad for what he is now. He doesn't seem very happy to me.

It is sad. In the beginning he would engage in substantive discussion without name-calling or insults. At least in terms of posting on Mormon-themed bb's, Bob is a shell of his former self.

Rollo Tomasi wrote:It is sad. In the beginning he would engage in substantive discussion without name-calling or insults. At least in terms of posting on Mormon-themed bb's, Bob is a shell of his former self.

I wouldn't know about that. Most Mormons I know are reasonably happy so it must be something about his apologetic hobby that has made the difference. God knows I wouldn't be happy if I had to peddle the crap the apologists do.

I remember how Yahoo Bot stood up to those at MADB who refused to acknowledge and/or dismissed the despicable things Schryver had written on this board to and about women, as outlined in Ms. Jack's infamous thread. Bot was adamant that what Schryver had written was misogynistic, and completely inappropriate, and he took a lot of heat for that.

I don't agree with most of what he writes on this blog, and in fact, have a hard time reconciling a lot of what he writes here with the man who stood up to Schryver, et al. Regardless, I will always remember his positioned stance during that fiasco, and be grateful to him for taking it.

Elphaba

Two notes here:

1. There are 3 more blog posts after the "Stop Blogging" post

2. Prof Hamblin has a separate website for his photos - well worth a visit!!