@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:This is why i call Hileman a troll--and Quahog and Thumby, too. They don't know, and won't admit that they don't know, and won't accept reasonable explanations from those who do know. In the end, they just want the attention.
Actually, they are different types. You have just described Hileman perfectly. He doesn't understand, will never admit it, and will never do any real work to learn.
Thumby has an agenda. The closest I could state it is that the world is "classical," including the rule of God. Maybe that's not a completely correct description, but it's something like that. He will ignore any amount of evidence that he's wrong or that you're right, ignore any number of requests that he support his beliefs, misrepresent what you've said, and ask you to prove things that you've clearly proven before. He will not adhere to the standards to which he holds others. I don't mean that he just forgets. He has no intention of adhering to the standards to which he holds others. His behavior would have to be called dishonest. He is one of only two people on the board whom I have ever put on ignore.
Q is something else and something worse. To my way of thinking, he's like a disease that the board caught. Like Thumby, he has an agenda and is dishonest. He appears to want to assert things that no one believes and that don't hold up to scrutiny for an instant. Like Thumby, he's dishonest, but unlike Thumby, there isn't a speck of honesty in him. Like Thumby, he's insulting, but unlike Thumby, he's completely insulting the instant he encounters any opposition. He is the only one of the three whom I would say is here entirely or almost entirely to seek attention by provoking a negative reaction. Of the three of them, he is the only one I would expel and I think that the decision to allow him to continue to post is merely stupid. He's not a real poster in any meaningful sense.
