Who here knows Mal Grande?
 

I come from another forum (go-gaia.com.) and the dude's in a fit of depression because Clevinger dissed him. I thought his sadness was worth linking to this forum. You know, in case you want to mock him or whatever. I myself don't care for him much, hence me doing my small part to e-humiliate him.

keep this shit out of the discussion forum. and oru forums here altogether, please. we're not going to go aorund "dissing" people or mockign peopel or engaging in forum wars.

Forum wars? Oh mah groin, did you think I was trying to instigate a cyber conflict? Geez, it just sounded like the guy was well known in this forum (Discussion in particular). If that's the case, then wouldn't the link be most relevant here? Sorry, should I have added something about President Bush+War on Terror= Me providing political commentary I'm in no way qualified to be giving? There's a post a ways down about the manliest video game character. If you can discuss that, then you can discuss this one guy.

Not that I care much anyway, since I've already gotten my amusemet from the situation and I hardly care enough about 8-bit or Clevinger to post here again. If you want to have a mod delete this thread or whatever, be my guest.

That was redirected. Anyways, General is where topics like this go. Discussion is for serious discussion, usually political, news, whatever.

that post was moved OUT of the discussion forum (just like this one)

and this is also the second post abotu Mal Grande postd form your fourm in the past few minutes. I don't want to see a flood of people going "wtf? why did you insult my friend??" or whatever from another forum. We had a "conflict" with another board on TWC a while back. it was retarded. i'd hate to see it again.

go gaia has tens of thousands of members. so don't be surprized if you see several more

Hence the announcement.

Lord. I love being yanked out of a deep sleep by my dumb-ass cat, then coming online to find something like this going on.

Okay, Go-Gaia posters -- here's the story:

Mal Grande comes to these forums and seems to be the average Black Mage-obsessed fanboy poster. Unfortunately he then heads to the Discussion section of the forums and goes on to make some really asinine remarks in a discussion about homosexuality. I'm already annoyed enough by this to call "troll", but I point it out to Brian to see what he thinks about it. He's also annoyed, but being a much nicer person than I am, posts:
(Post here: http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpo...9&postcount=59)

Mal either doesn't see this or doesn't care and goes on to make this post in the Discussion section: http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?t=3346

I'm genuinely sorry if that was his actual intent, but I really don't buy that he only meant for it to be "funny and thought-provoking". The overall tone of our discussion section is left-leaning enough that he had to know beforehand the kind of reaction the post was going to provoke, and that's plenty troll enough for me. I asked Brian beforehand -- as I do with almost every decision I make as a mod -- if banning him was okay. He said it was, so I did.

I admit that my original reply to that thread, as quoted in the post Robos A Go Go linked to, is excessively harsh, and for that I also apologize to Mal Grande. I've cut it down since then, but I'm glad that he posted the original content so that it doesn't look like he's villainizing me unnecessarily.

It's hard to feel very sympathetic toward a person who's upset that someone he admires thinks he's a douchebag when he readily admits to acting like one, though. I'm sorry his feelings were hurt, but maybe this will teach him that carrying on like a jackass leads to people treating you accordingly. I'm also sorry that he says he feels depressed so much of the time, since that doesn't excuse the way he behaves but goes a long way toward explaining it.

It's interesting that he says that he used to post here before, though, since I thought he might've been someone we had to ban a long time ago, and since his host name is very similar to that person's. If Mal Grande and Whitemage are the same person, I have to wonder why he thought he could come back and do exactly the same things that got him banned last time without experiencing exactly the same consequences.

This is why you should make me a mod, I'd weed out the idiots in under an hour. I'd call the plan my "Final Solution" and the forums would finally be interesting and fun to go to

the Final Solution. isn't that the number you put in the box as your answer for math tests?