FYI on The Water Cooler

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TheStorm
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packgrad said:

I missed ernie night. I remember mountainwolf night though. That dude went off the rails big time.

Tick. Tock.
caryking
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TheStorm said:

I just laughed my f'n ass off that nutjob GP thinks he speaks for anybody here other than his crazy ass self... talk about a lack of self awareness, as if he's just "one of the normal guys" now, lol. *I only saw it because someone quoted him though, so indirectly at least, Old Souljier is right on the money about that ignore button.

Nothing warms my heart more than to see a stack of three names (yeah, and sometimes a stack of the same name 20 times) with no posts showing up under them in the morning.

And wow... I had forgotten all about ernie that one night, boy did that come completely out of left field?!? *But Glass handled it exactly like he should have...

I still come here to read on a regular basis, but I've "tried" not to post as much - but I have to admit that sometimes it's hard not to respond to some of the nonsense that gets posted here.

I support whatever the owners of the site decide they want / need to do regarding this board. Just hope it doesn't then permeate the sports boards instead though...

The thing about GP and Were that gets me…. it appears as if they think their doing Gods work by keeping us informed. Most of the time, they are posting things that project; rather than stating current events. Now, I say most of the time is… when I read their post, which is seldom. So, I could be off in my assessment..
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packgrad said:

I missed ernie night. I remember mountainwolf night though. That dude went off the rails big time.

Feel the same as you and ouldsouljer, it's the owners site. If they want to shut it down, it's their call. Hopefully it doesn't leak onto the sports boards. It's worse there than it is here. I have more on ignore there than here.

I must have missed mountainwolf night. Ernie was basically threatening to kill everyone including the POTUS. I believe there was serious consideration about contacting the FBI or Secret Service. He was seriously unhinged.
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Glasswolf said:

packgrad said:

I missed ernie night. I remember mountainwolf night though. That dude went off the rails big time.

Feel the same as you and ouldsouljer, it's the owners site. If they want to shut it down, it's their call. Hopefully it doesn't leak onto the sports boards. It's worse there than it is here. I have more on ignore there than here.

I must have missed mountainwolf night. Ernie was basically threatening to kill everyone including the POTUS. I believe there was serious consideration about contacting the FBI or Secret Service. He was seriously unhinged.


2/11/22. Only know because I still have his DMs. Similar to what it sounds like Ernie was doing, except his threats were limited to those posting on the board (edit to add, he also included spouses and mothers). Pretty sure it had to do with Covid, but not certain
TheStorm
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Glasswolf said:

packgrad said:

I missed ernie night. I remember mountainwolf night though. That dude went off the rails big time.

Feel the same as you and ouldsouljer, it's the owners site. If they want to shut it down, it's their call. Hopefully it doesn't leak onto the sports boards. It's worse there than it is here. I have more on ignore there than here.

I must have missed mountainwolf night. Ernie was basically threatening to kill everyone including the POTUS. I believe there was serious consideration about contacting the FBI or Secret Service. He was seriously unhinged.

You didn't miss it, you just don't remember it probably because it was much farther back. You got rid of him on the spot.
caryking
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Who are these people? Ernie and Mountain?
TheStorm
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packgrad said:

Glasswolf said:

packgrad said:

I missed ernie night. I remember mountainwolf night though. That dude went off the rails big time.

Feel the same as you and ouldsouljer, it's the owners site. If they want to shut it down, it's their call. Hopefully it doesn't leak onto the sports boards. It's worse there than it is here. I have more on ignore there than here.

I must have missed mountainwolf night. Ernie was basically threatening to kill everyone including the POTUS. I believe there was serious consideration about contacting the FBI or Secret Service. He was seriously unhinged.


2/11/22. Only know because I still have his DMs. Similar to what it sounds like Ernie was doing, except his threats were limited to those posting on the board (edit to add, he also included spouses and mothers). Pretty sure it had to do with Covid, but not certain

He was the one laughing at people because he said if you didn't get the vaccines and the boosters that society was going to shut them out from ever being able to enter any businesses, etc... and you would also soon be dead... when all that came crashing down around him, he basically got taunted for it and he didn't handle it well.

Here's my favorite DM from him that I received on 2/11/22:

Mountainman97
8:21p, 2/11/22

*********I wish I get my hands on you right now. I'm trying to find you right now. You better hope I don't.


Funniest part about it was that I don't think I was even on the boards when he had that meltdown that night, I only saw what had happened the next morning and then saw the 3-4 DM's he sent me... apparently he sent DM's out to a bunch of people that night. He was the epitome of the old saying, "you can dish it out but you can't take it"

He'd had a couple of short bans before that last one though, even had to come back under another user name one of those times at least... he was a maintenance supervisor or similar for DOT somewhere around Polk County if I remember correctly...

Tick. Tock.

Tick. Tock.

That was his favorite post representing the clock ticking on your life if you didn't keep taking the boosters...

His biggest problem was that he liked to post when he was heavily lubed up on the sauce, and it didn't take much to set him off into a complete rage... believe me, it didn't only happen once.

Then there was the guy in Charlotte that was in an absolute rush to get his 1, 3 and 5 year olds vaccinated, so they could "open up the schools again" and so that he could start going to movie theatres again. He was really obsessed about wanting to go to the movies again for some reason... he was hook, line and sinker all in on covid.

Ahh, the memories...

*Honestly, maybe bringing back the one-week, one-month, then permaban enforcements was better than no enforcement at all... the last person the owners of the site should be listening to is the one that thinks the term "free speech" means he can post whatever he wants on a message board created and owned by somebody else.

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TheStorm said:

packgrad said:

Glasswolf said:

packgrad said:

I missed ernie night. I remember mountainwolf night though. That dude went off the rails big time.

Feel the same as you and ouldsouljer, it's the owners site. If they want to shut it down, it's their call. Hopefully it doesn't leak onto the sports boards. It's worse there than it is here. I have more on ignore there than here.

I must have missed mountainwolf night. Ernie was basically threatening to kill everyone including the POTUS. I believe there was serious consideration about contacting the FBI or Secret Service. He was seriously unhinged.


2/11/22. Only know because I still have his DMs. Similar to what it sounds like Ernie was doing, except his threats were limited to those posting on the board (edit to add, he also included spouses and mothers). Pretty sure it had to do with Covid, but not certain

He was the one laughing at people because he said if you didn't get the vaccines and the boosters that society was going to shut them out from ever being able to enter any businesses, etc... and you would also soon be dead... when all that came crashing down around him, he basically got taunted for it and he didn't handle it well.

Here's my favorite DM from him that I received on 2/11/22:

Mountainman97
8:21p, 2/11/22

*********I wish I get my hands on you right now. I'm trying to find you right now. You better hope I don't.


Funniest part about it was that I don't think I was even on the boards when he had that meltdown that night, I only saw what had happened the next morning and then saw the 3-4 DM's he sent me... apparently he sent DM's out to a bunch of people that night. He was the epitome of the old saying, "you can dish it out but you can't take it"

He'd had a couple of short bans before that last one though, even had to come back under another user name one of those times at least... he was a maintenance supervisor or similar for DOT somewhere around Polk County if I remember correctly...

Tick. Tock.

Tick. Tock.

That was his favorite post representing the clock ticking on your life if you didn't keep taking the boosters...

His biggest problem was that he liked to post when he was heavily lubed up on the sauce, and it didn't take much to set him off into a complete rage... believe me, it didn't only happen once.

Then there was the guy in Charlotte that was in an absolute rush to get his 1, 3 and 5 year olds vaccinated, so they could "open up the schools again" and so that he could start going to movie theatres again. He was really obsessed about wanting to go to the movies again for some reason... he was hook, line and sinker all in on covid.

Ahh, the memories...

*Honestly, maybe bringing back the one-week, one-month, then permaban enforcements was better than no enforcement at all... the last person the owners of the site should be listening to is the one that thinks the term "free speech" means he can post whatever he wants on a message board created and owned by somebody else.



Lmao holy s, I'd forgotten about that lunatic.
Gulfstream4
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Was ernie the one who threaten to kill GP?
jkpackfan
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Gulfstream4 said:

Was ernie the one who threaten to kill GP?

Didn't he tell him he'd stick a gun down his throat?
TheStorm
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This gave me the perfect excuse to stroll back down memory lane in going through all my old DM's... not nearly as good as the previous one I posted (and man, I wished that the opening two words hadn't gotten starred out when I cut & pasted that, it was a glorious start to the message)...

I have an earlier DM from him where his username was Engineer97, so yeah, at least my memory was correct in that he had been banned at least once before that.

I also have DM's from three entirely different friendly / impartial posters that are simply entitled "Engineer"... from reading through them he apparently had a major liquor induced night time meltdown episode with CLT on the sports boards at one time as well - that may very well have been connected to the first ban in fact.
packgrad
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lol. He sent me similar. Dude was ripping off the DMs that night. He threatened to rape my wife and mother. He sent me his address to meet him. Haha. I considered sending it to local PD but felt confident it wasn't his real address.

Ahh... the sweet memories.
TheStorm
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I don't remember the specifics of what happened with ernie... someway, somehow I wasn't personally involved in any of it for once (that time anyway at least) .

What I do remember though was that it was just completely out of character with the way he normally posted here... I mean he was like most of us in that he was compelled to have to call somebody an idiot or whatever from time to time, but he wasn't a high volume poster by any means, and he usually said his piece in a post or two and then left... but yeah, he really came off the rails that one night for sure... and I only saw the little pieces of it that next morning that were left that Glass hadn't been forced to delete the night prior!

Mountain was definitely on his way to Durham to find packgrad that one night though... lol.
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Gulfstream4 said:

Was ernie the one who threaten to kill GP?

Pretty sure he wanted to kill everyone
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jkpackfan said:

TheStorm said:

packgrad said:

Glasswolf said:

packgrad said:

I missed ernie night. I remember mountainwolf night though. That dude went off the rails big time.

Feel the same as you and ouldsouljer, it's the owners site. If they want to shut it down, it's their call. Hopefully it doesn't leak onto the sports boards. It's worse there than it is here. I have more on ignore there than here.

I must have missed mountainwolf night. Ernie was basically threatening to kill everyone including the POTUS. I believe there was serious consideration about contacting the FBI or Secret Service. He was seriously unhinged.


2/11/22. Only know because I still have his DMs. Similar to what it sounds like Ernie was doing, except his threats were limited to those posting on the board (edit to add, he also included spouses and mothers). Pretty sure it had to do with Covid, but not certain

He was the one laughing at people because he said if you didn't get the vaccines and the boosters that society was going to shut them out from ever being able to enter any businesses, etc... and you would also soon be dead... when all that came crashing down around him, he basically got taunted for it and he didn't handle it well.

Here's my favorite DM from him that I received on 2/11/22:

Mountainman97
8:21p, 2/11/22

*********I wish I get my hands on you right now. I'm trying to find you right now. You better hope I don't.


Funniest part about it was that I don't think I was even on the boards when he had that meltdown that night, I only saw what had happened the next morning and then saw the 3-4 DM's he sent me... apparently he sent DM's out to a bunch of people that night. He was the epitome of the old saying, "you can dish it out but you can't take it"

He'd had a couple of short bans before that last one though, even had to come back under another user name one of those times at least... he was a maintenance supervisor or similar for DOT somewhere around Polk County if I remember correctly...

Tick. Tock.

Tick. Tock.

That was his favorite post representing the clock ticking on your life if you didn't keep taking the boosters...

His biggest problem was that he liked to post when he was heavily lubed up on the sauce, and it didn't take much to set him off into a complete rage... believe me, it didn't only happen once.

Then there was the guy in Charlotte that was in an absolute rush to get his 1, 3 and 5 year olds vaccinated, so they could "open up the schools again" and so that he could start going to movie theatres again. He was really obsessed about wanting to go to the movies again for some reason... he was hook, line and sinker all in on covid.

Ahh, the memories...

*Honestly, maybe bringing back the one-week, one-month, then permaban enforcements was better than no enforcement at all... the last person the owners of the site should be listening to is the one that thinks the term "free speech" means he can post whatever he wants on a message board created and owned by somebody else.



Lmao holy s, I'd forgotten about that lunatic.

Damn that was 3 years ago. BP did the dirty work on that one
Glasswolf
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TheStorm said:

Glasswolf said:

packgrad said:

I missed ernie night. I remember mountainwolf night though. That dude went off the rails big time.

Feel the same as you and ouldsouljer, it's the owners site. If they want to shut it down, it's their call. Hopefully it doesn't leak onto the sports boards. It's worse there than it is here. I have more on ignore there than here.

I must have missed mountainwolf night. Ernie was basically threatening to kill everyone including the POTUS. I believe there was serious consideration about contacting the FBI or Secret Service. He was seriously unhinged.

You didn't miss it, you just don't remember it probably because it was much farther back. You got rid of him on the spot.

BP Cox permabanned him
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jkpackfan said:

Gulfstream4 said:

Was ernie the one who threaten to kill GP?

Didn't he tell him he'd stick a gun down his throat?


Yup, that was him. Dude was a loon.
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Glasswolf said:

GuerrillaPack said:

Glasswolf said:

caryking said:

For a thread where IPS management stated they were considering shutting this place down, well… we sure have missed the mark.

We all tried to moderate the WC. But every time we did, we got accused of censorship. No matter which side was moderated. So eventually I just stopped. Wasn't worth it.


I think I speak for most of the right-leaning posters here when I say that we do not want any moderation. It is not needed...except for when literal spammers (guys from other websites trying to sell something) post new threads advertising their travel site or whatever.

It is overwhelmingly the Left that requests and wants heavy moderation of the site. Because Leftists want to use that heavy moderation to enact censorship of conservatives and right-leaning posters.

I believe that the "hands off' approach to moderation in The Water Cooler as it has been operating for the last few years has worked just fine. The only "problem", it seems, is that Leftist posters are just constantly whining and pestering the mods and site owners because they want more and more censorship...because that is the modus operandi of the Left, to censor their ideological opponents.

Just ignore all these Leftist whiners. That's the real problem here.

You sure about that. I've gotten more messages about Hokie, Civilized and Smapty than anyone.


LOLOLOL
Oldsouljer
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TheStorm said:

packgrad said:

Glasswolf said:

packgrad said:

I missed ernie night. I remember mountainwolf night though. That dude went off the rails big time.

Feel the same as you and ouldsouljer, it's the owners site. If they want to shut it down, it's their call. Hopefully it doesn't leak onto the sports boards. It's worse there than it is here. I have more on ignore there than here.

I must have missed mountainwolf night. Ernie was basically threatening to kill everyone including the POTUS. I believe there was serious consideration about contacting the FBI or Secret Service. He was seriously unhinged.


2/11/22. Only know because I still have his DMs. Similar to what it sounds like Ernie was doing, except his threats were limited to those posting on the board (edit to add, he also included spouses and mothers). Pretty sure it had to do with Covid, but not certain

He was the one laughing at people because he said if you didn't get the vaccines and the boosters that society was going to shut them out from ever being able to enter any businesses, etc... and you would also soon be dead... when all that came crashing down around him, he basically got taunted for it and he didn't handle it well.

Here's my favorite DM from him that I received on 2/11/22:

Mountainman97
8:21p, 2/11/22

*********I wish I get my hands on you right now. I'm trying to find you right now. You better hope I don't.


Funniest part about it was that I don't think I was even on the boards when he had that meltdown that night, I only saw what had happened the next morning and then saw the 3-4 DM's he sent me... apparently he sent DM's out to a bunch of people that night. He was the epitome of the old saying, "you can dish it out but you can't take it"

He'd had a couple of short bans before that last one though, even had to come back under another user name one of those times at least... he was a maintenance supervisor or similar for DOT somewhere around Polk County if I remember correctly...

Tick. Tock.

Tick. Tock.

That was his favorite post representing the clock ticking on your life if you didn't keep taking the boosters...

His biggest problem was that he liked to post when he was heavily lubed up on the sauce, and it didn't take much to set him off into a complete rage... believe me, it didn't only happen once.

Then there was the guy in Charlotte that was in an absolute rush to get his 1, 3 and 5 year olds vaccinated, so they could "open up the schools again" and so that he could start going to movie theatres again. He was really obsessed about wanting to go to the movies again for some reason... he was hook, line and sinker all in on covid.

Ahh, the memories...

*Honestly, maybe bringing back the one-week, one-month, then permaban enforcements was better than no enforcement at all... the last person the owners of the site should be listening to is the one that thinks the term "free speech" means he can post whatever he wants on a message board created and owned by somebody else.



I must be having senioritis, damned if I remember any of that.
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When I joined IPS I thought the WC was going to be like the old Brickyard (from way back) which was fun and random and mostly lighthearted, even with a little politics and weirdness. There were flashes with the WC, but it ended up just being whatever this is now.
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Sullivan908 said:

When I joined IPS I thought the WC was going to be like the old Brickyard (from way back) which was fun and random and mostly lighthearted, even with a little politics and weirdness. There were flashes with the WC, but it ended up just being whatever this is now.

Problem is there were a few that were globally banned by scout/247 that came over here and started the same mess
caryking
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Sullivan908 said:

When I joined IPS I thought the WC was going to be like the old Brickyard (from way back) which was fun and random and mostly lighthearted, even with a little politics and weirdness. There were flashes with the WC, but it ended up just being whatever this is now.

Come on now... The WC is no worse than the Sports Forums. I literally don't post much on the Sports Forums because of the lunacy.
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caryking said:

Sullivan908 said:

When I joined IPS I thought the WC was going to be like the old Brickyard (from way back) which was fun and random and mostly lighthearted, even with a little politics and weirdness. There were flashes with the WC, but it ended up just being whatever this is now.

Come on now... The WC is no worse than the Sports Forums. I literally don't post much on the Sports Forums because of the lunacy.

But I can edit a post or delete comments on the Football and Basketball forums and don't get bombarded with accusations of violating their free speech.
caryking
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Glasswolf said:

caryking said:

Sullivan908 said:

When I joined IPS I thought the WC was going to be like the old Brickyard (from way back) which was fun and random and mostly lighthearted, even with a little politics and weirdness. There were flashes with the WC, but it ended up just being whatever this is now.

Come on now... The WC is no worse than the Sports Forums. I literally don't post much on the Sports Forums because of the lunacy.

But I can edit a post or delete comments on the Football and Basketball forums and don't get bombarded with accusations of violating their free speech.

Fair enough...

 
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