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> Oh god, here goes Ottava again, Troll or psychopath, you be the judge
Vigilant
post Sat 27th August 2011, 6:28am
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He just can't seem to quit being a giant, throbbing {expletive deleted}.
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post Sat 27th August 2011, 8:56am
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QUOTE(Vigilant @ Sat 27th August 2011, 1:28am) *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_...rendum/en/Other

He just can't seem to quit being a giant, throbbing {expletive deleted}.

Perhaps, but somebody has to argue that position or it would just be an echo chamber in there, right? Assuming you're against filtering, wouldn't you rather the person be him, given his general unpopularity?

Also, are you referring to the whole page, or the argument with 178.201.100.215 in particular? It looks like you're referring to the whole page.

I actually think Ottava makes some fairly sensible points there. Just because you'll never get him to admit there's a slippery slope involved, doesn't mean he's completely wrong about everything else, does it? Unless it's his persistence alone that's bothersome... but y'know, it's Wikipedia, so you'll have that.
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post Sat 27th August 2011, 9:19am
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QUOTE(Somey @ Sat 27th August 2011, 4:56am) *

QUOTE(Vigilant @ Sat 27th August 2011, 1:28am) *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_...rendum/en/Other

He just can't seem to quit being a giant, throbbing {expletive deleted}.

Perhaps, but somebody has to argue that position or it would just be an echo chamber in there, right? Assuming you're against filtering, wouldn't you rather the person be him, given his general unpopularity?

Ottava's unique gift is to take an otherwise sensible position, blend it with a few hyperbolisms and paranoid rants, then spit it out in a way that makes the otherwise sensible position look at least as crazy as the otherwise nonsensical position he's arguing against. dry.gif
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Vigilant   Oh god, here goes Ottava again   Sat 27th August 2011, 6:28am
Milton Roe   Ottava's unique gift is to take an otherwise ...   Sat 27th August 2011, 4:04pm
Milton Roe   I actually think Ottava makes some fairly sensibl...   Sat 27th August 2011, 4:00pm
Kelly Martin   The fundamentalist mindset tends to be characteriz...   Sat 27th August 2011, 10:37pm
Herschelkrustofsky   The fundamentalist mindset tends to be characteri...   Sun 28th August 2011, 12:49am
communicat   I actually think Ottava makes some fairly sensib...   Sat 12th November 2011, 5:35pm
Abd   [quote name='Milton Roe' post='283806' date='Sat 2...   Sat 12th November 2011, 7:01pm
Vigilant   I am the great and powerful Ottava! You cannot...   Mon 29th August 2011, 3:37am
radek   I am the great and powerful Ottava! You canno...   Mon 29th August 2011, 8:27am
thekohser   Hmm. Take a look at the admin who originally bloc...   Mon 29th August 2011, 12:16pm
A Horse With No Name   Are you talking about this babe? :grin: :gr...   Mon 29th August 2011, 12:52pm
tarantino   [quote name='radek' post='283853' date='Mon 29th ...   Mon 7th November 2011, 10:09pm
SB_Johnny   ... Can everyone who isn't a 16-year-old boy p...   Mon 7th November 2011, 11:36pm
Abd   [quote name='tarantino' post='288010' date='Mon 7t...   Sat 12th November 2011, 1:30pm
Abd   [quote name='radek' post='283853' date='Mon 29th A...   Sat 12th November 2011, 1:56pm
A Horse With No Name   Her blogger profile pic is also quite lovely. Who ...   Sat 12th November 2011, 6:57pm
Abd   Her blogger profile pic is also quite lovely. Who ...   Sat 12th November 2011, 7:08pm
A Horse With No Name   Enjoy the ride! It will all be over soon enoug...   Mon 14th November 2011, 5:01pm
Abd   Enjoy the ride! It will all be over soon enoug...   Mon 14th November 2011, 6:08pm
lilburne   Hmm. Take a look at the admin who originally bloc...   Mon 29th August 2011, 7:42pm
Vigilant   Ottava is a strange bird. http://commons.wikimedi...   Tue 30th August 2011, 6:06pm
SB_Johnny   Ottava is a strange bird. http://commons.wikimed...   Wed 31st August 2011, 8:37pm
Abd   I can be grateful I'm blocked on meta at the m...   Sun 6th November 2011, 8:31pm
Abd   Hint: this is not about Poetlister. it's about...   Sun 6th November 2011, 9:16pm
EricBarbour   tl;dr (sorry Jeff)   Sun 6th November 2011, 9:46pm
SB_Johnny   tl;dr (sorry Jeff) Me too.   Sun 6th November 2011, 9:51pm
Abd   tl;dr (sorry Jeff) Me too.You fully deserve that ...   Sun 6th November 2011, 11:58pm


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