Guys that threw me under the bus...

[RogueScholar]

RS, to your credit, you are an incredible bullshitter. I guess everyone will think twice before believing another stiff story.

Thanks Robyn, I actually find that to be very high praise. I've been dealing with various law enforcement officials since I was 13, so I picked up early on just how much detail needs to be included in a story to get the listener to buy it. I realize that maybe I made the story sound a little too good, but I expected a far more skeptical audience on an Internet forum. To see how seriously everyone took this matter without taking time to evaluate the elements was shocking.

The notion that it was humor based is a head-scratcher for me. I don't see the humor. I feel it was more attention-based. RS would be far from the first person on this forum to do something for that reason. In fact it is (regrettably) a foundation principle of this forum.

I suppose you could make a case that the whole thing was edgy social commentary. RS was a victim of some much more vile, false accusations awhile back when someone accused him of posting pedo porn. It was an ugly thing, both for RS personally, and for those of us who consider Child porn to be a serious issue and don't like it to be casually tossed around as a tool in a hate agenda.

Based only on the random accusations of someone with a well-known agenda, a lynch mob - which included SBR mods - formed and convicted RS. It was very similar to what happened with this AAO thing. So you could chalk this new episode up to edgy social commentary. It was actually pretty on-the-nose. This forum is pretty idiotic sometimes.

I suppose it's easy to misconstrue my intentions as attention-seeking, but really the whole thread was just an attempt to inject some drama into Players Talk since it'd become bogged down with sports talk. I thought the whole arc of my charade was priceless humor, but I guess it only seemed that way to people who share my reasons for being here. I figured that everyone took what was said on SBR as lightly as I did, but I learned otherwise through this experience. But you hit the edgy social commentary part on the head. While I was amusing myself, I presumed that the end-result should be an "awakening" as to the nature of internet forums and the level of scrutiny that they should receive.

I'm sorry if I traded on my credibility with you, Mudcat. You've always been a gentleman to me, and one of my favorite posters. You and I sit on opposite sides of the stiff debate, as to whether or not the behavior is reprehensible, but everytime you join a debate you never fail to elevate the intelligence of the discussion. Thanks for not adding me to your Ignore list. Yours is one I'd particularly care to avoid.

At the end of the day (hate that saying), Scholar got just what he wanted out of this.

A huge rise from the posters and mods.

But he never makes any qualms about what he is here for.

1. Entertainment
2. Social circles
3. Sports gambling

So you know what you get with him. He does seem 50-50 with his fan base/haters here. I can emphasize with both sides, as I've been on both sides.

But do yourself a favor and either embrace him or ignore him, cuz he ain't going anywhere. And he's actually a pretty decent guy once you get past the BS.

As usual Bread, you break things down to the brass tacks. I can't argue with a single thing you said here. I'm sorry I ended up piling negative attention on you and your lovely wife when I first came here, I can't think of any people that I've misjudged more grievously than the two of you. You're both outstanding people and I'm glad we've been able to patch things up since those days.

It's true, I traded on my credibility on this forum because it seemed less valuable than a day filled with laughs. I'm just here to pass the slow months between growing seasons, and so I really just mess around here without realizing that some people do genuine community-building here. I'll leave it to others to comment on whether or not that's even healthy, but I wanted to acknowledge my oversight on that issue. In the future, I'll let the people that want to build little LEGO houses and be virtual neighbors in SBRville a wider berth. It's scary to see those people riled up...

In closing, I'm happy to be back from sunny San Francisco and here in my favorite playground with you guys. Let's have some fun and enjoy the college hoops action.

[Bread]

[sickler]

macho man here

Same here.

RJ, you're the only one who posted the results but I bet everyone checked just to make sure.

[sickler]

Did AAO get the lifetime ban or did he become permanently soured from working as a bubblegum agent for a bubblegum bookie?

[pavyracer]

Did AAO get the lifetime ban or did he become permanently soured from working as a bubblegum agent for a bubblegum bookie?

He is around under another name. Sometimes in life you reach a point where your doucheness reaches a point of no return and you have to change names to save face. See onthewhat.

[Extra Innings]

He is around under another name. Sometimes in life you reach a point where your doucheness reaches a point of no return and you have to change names to save face. See onthewhat.

Thanks for forgetting to or consciously keeping me out of that post.

[Deuce]

AAO come back, pal.

[jstblaze]

I dont see it as poor taste...

I just consider the guy who spent his free time making up such a story to be an absolute loser. Not quite sure how it can be taken any other way.

[Chandler]

never seen a guy disappear like AAO has from the forums. hope he is okay