Don't encourage him. The best way to deal with a bully is to bitch slap him. Scratch a sadist and you find a masochist.
if you can build a computer like tikittrader i will pay for the parts. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=223072 this had to be one of the most informative threads on this board or any other board. what are you talking about?
You, sir, are now provisionally qualified to apply for denizenship in Tejas Norte. Based on your prior postings, I will stand for you that you are a gun owner. No state taxes. Easy concealed handgun lisence (or is that license?). Horny ugly women. Cold winters. Hot summers. Corn won't grow. Weeds proliferate. Bobcats in the back yard. Paradise on earth! Bad attitudes appreciated. Now taking applecations.
I have to agree on the problem, but not on the explanations. Trolls, pretenders and "gurus" appear on all other trader forums as well. They just have far less influence there and don't generate the majority of the posts. Here we have to wade through a swamp of insults and platitudes in every single thread. This is a problem for a commercial forum, as most potential users are driven away to competing trader forums when they notice the overall low standard and hostile atmosphere here. I can give many examples of threads where 10 trolls immediately react with insults on any user who posts or asks something useful. This is normally a sign of a dying forum. All this is a problem of ineffective moderation. On other forums, personal insults, off topic and troll posts are prohibited, and this is strictly enforced by the moderators. Such measures would raise the standard here a lot.