Re: Opening a Lounge/Club
If DIDI does think that Zover is in fact the victim here (not totally certain, as she quoted him - so it's a bit unclear who's she's referring to), she might want to review the toxic pattern of harassment and bullying that his posting history and regular abusive patterns he's shown towards others - going so far to see himself as some kind of spiteful, self-appointed mod. Check his posting history under his multiple aliases if you can stomach it and check out how often he's been negative or even outright abusive to other members and demanded respect from everyone, even though he wouldn't reciprocate. His justification; he had a high postcount in a short amount of time - solid reasoning there. As I said before, he couldn't take what he liked to dish out to others on a regular basis. As for the "owning" part - it pushed his buttons and I fully admit I went to town on him, knowing it pissed him off. I don't have much sympathy for a bully and a coward, so no quarter comes from me, and I got as much fun as I could out of it..
And really, having multiple aliases is actually something that undermines the integrity of the board - it's not a good thing - even if she sees that as "contributing". All it does is transforms a spot on the internet where people can exchange ideas and instead it undermines it by giving the illusion of consensus (when its one person posting) and prevents any trust people can have in each other, causing people to second guess if they're actually talking to another individual or a variation of a single individual masquerading as someone else. If she believes the opposite, please feel free to explain why. For all the talk about how MS isn't what it used to be, how it's in decline and even how it's approaching it's end - it's because this behavior has been accepted and part of the status quo that's partly at fault. Not many people are going to want to contribute to an environment that is so insular that they tolerate that kind of bullshit, and it doesn't really encourage much in the way of new membership, which is what will keep any message board alive.
But hey, if this is the case where she thinks that Zover was a great contributor to the board, that's her opinion. I doubt that we'd have much to talk about anyways, with her supporting someone like that.
And to address the subject of the thread - who cares if he's going to open a club or not? If he does - awesome, and good luck. If he doesn't there are other people who might be able to put to use the knowledge that was being offered, instead of reading how Zover had some stupid vendetta against FL and has taken every opportunity he could to post it in any other thread. If you look through his contributions - you'll see someone just shitting on another member of the board and others just standing by and accepting it.