Farewell

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by 4Para

My thoughts were to bring a little spice to add, to the (sometimes) bland soup.

Never bland.

Originally Posted by 4Para

This is my last post thank you all, 4 para, steven, out.

You're welcome.

Originally Posted by robbo180265

To me, there appears to be an element of the "pack mentality" about this whole thing.

The only time more than one person posted about 4Para was when 4Para tried to claim that his mock style was proper grammar, to which multiple people took exception to. This is entirely to be expected.

Originally Posted by Webster

from what i am aware he sometimes had as much trouble properly understanding us as we had following his wording choices but i never saw any sign he wanted to cause any trouble.

4Para never had any problems understanding anyone else at all. He is not a secondary speaker of English and understood perfectly everything posed to him. He takes delight in bending the written word to his own ends, but has no trouble understanding anything in English. Granted, his communication was poor, so you may be forgiven for sometimes inferring that he didn't understand due to his woolly response, but there is no reason for him not to have understood. He is a native English speaker.

Originally Posted by JU_88

Absolutley JS, in fact 4Para's last login was:
Last Activity: 09-01-2010 01:25 AM (the time this thread was posted)

Lets check this again in 24 hours shall we?
That will be ultimate test to see if he is for real or not.

Last Activity: 09-01-2010 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

He was never rude, condecending or any other variation of nasty. Despite all of that, nasty is precisely what he got in return, and all because people didn't approve of his syntax. If that isn't juvenile, then I do not know what juvenile is.

You seem to be forgetting all the snipes he made at Sailor Steve for no other reason that Sailor Steve once made the mistake of commenting on 4Para's grammar. From that moment on, it was as if 4Para had the green light to constantly pick on whatever Sailor Steve said. He was always brusing for a fight. If not a direct one with Sailor Steve, he'd often 'insert' himself into an argument between two other people (or preferably between Sailor Steve and someone else), by commenting on what one of them had said to try to get a response. You can say that all he got was nasty in return, but that's not true. He got many messages of support, saying that people enjoyed his style of posting. But as well, to say that he was always sweetness and light is to wear rose tinted spectacles, I'm afraid.

He was, as I recall very rude to Sailor Steve. Sailor Steve is of course well known as a pillar of the community, so to have someone attack him was quite jarring and particularly notable, as it takes a 'special kind' of person to hold a grudge against the affable Sailor Steve.

As I have posted before, as 4Para chose to post in an unusual way (chose as in it was a concious choice and not a result of a stroke), then he must like the drama attached to the deliberate mock style he chose. Therefore, as I also stated, he must like it when people respond to him, as it gives him the chance to respond. It seems he is always trying to 'get a response' so that he can post 'more of the same'.

Therefore, when he posts his argumentative interjections, he is simply seeking a response, to which he can respond to, so a response is what he wants, so all the people responding to him are just giving him what he wants, which is all good. The only other alternative is to just ignore him? That surely would be the cruelest option for such an attention seeker?

To 4Para, come about man and keep your powder dry from your tears. No good can come from the wettening of munitions, so steer yourself true man.

EDIT: Bottom line: Someone rage quits* the forums because they were drunk and it's now the community's fault? (* Last log on time indicates quittage has not occurred)