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We're letting that little turd get to us. He's already sown the seeds of hate and discontent. Jay's Right, we need to welcome everyone with open arms. And the worst part is, we're turning on each other.
Let's just chill. I figured it was him, that's why I asked him to tell us a little about himself. I noticed there was no info in his profile and that made me suspicious, especially after he came back and we caught him the last time because he cut and pasted his profile from Scalpel to the new profile. The thing was WE brought this up in the post where we banned him. There are ways to be kind and polite and yet still get him to "out" himself. I don't think one of the admins on here deleted the thread, so I'm gonna assume Tomas did it. It may have been one comment out of 10 that was negative...or it may have been he was our little troll. I dunno.
I do have a little inside info, though. Just after I noticed the thread was deleted, I got a reply in my Gmail box to the email I sent to our little troll about not being mad, but being dissappointed and disgusted with him. In his reply he said he was sorry and was gonna say someting on JoeDios. Maybe that was it, and when he realized we were gonna "out" him again and didn't give a damn what he had to say, he decided to turn tail and run.
If someone else joins and introduces themselves, let's welcome them, ask them to tell us a little about themselves and wait. If it's him, he'll wait a few days and begin begging for a comic Pack Firefly, A BeachHead, a Dusty, some night creepers, ect, ad Nauseum! He CAN'T stay hidden for long. He'll IM you and beg. If he does, send him my way or ask him his address, which we should ALL be familiar with. Once you see it, just have GS ban him. Or if you're like me, Flourish and blow the trumpets in a loud, embarrasing post made to humiliate and degrade him for his lack of intelligence and protocol and then have GS ban him! But if he does come back and plays by the rules for a few months, why get blown out of shape? He's already screwed up 6 times....he'll out himself eventually.
What we DON'T need to do....is start yelling "TROLL" as soon as we suspect something. We may end up pushing new members away. We need to give them the benefit of the doubt until they prove us right or wrong. Ask them a little about themselves, show them around, and offer to help them. If it's not him, they'll feel welcome....if it IS him, he'll feel compelled to take advantage of our good nature and start begging then all we need is to say "ok, what's your mailing address".
POOF! Problem solved!
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