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I thought at first it might have to do with being chastised by OSC (I didn't care much for that experience myself, though unlike KoM, I didn't deserve it. I left for a couple of months myself when that happened.) but I see from some quick searching that his last post was almost a week before that happened.
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Wasn't he planning to embark on a cross country trip? I hope he didn't drive into the Grand Canyon, a la Thelma and Louise.
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Ah, well, it was only a matter of time. Posting one of Mr. Card's pet peeves in a thread about his class is just inviting teh smackdown.
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As an aside, am I the only person on the forum who actually kinda likes him? I mean, when he's on, he's really very funny. And it's obvious that he's a total softie at heart, just ask about his girlfriend. Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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KoM is abrasive, sure, but the reaction of many here to him is way over the top. I've said it before and I'll say it again - Hatrackers are the most sensitive people I have ever met on the 'net.
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He can definately be a funny man. You can get away with murder in my books if you're funny enough.
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I don't mind him . I don't really know him that well enough to judge him based on a couple of posts.
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I think his style is counterproductive, but that doesn't make me dislike him. It makes me not want to debate stuff with him, but as it turns out we agree on a fair number of issues.
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I both like and hate his style. I've learned to look past his deliberate offensiveness and focus instead on the points he is trying to make, which are almost always very clear and articulate. I too feel that he could be a lot more productive if he changed his style. But at the same time, I don't really want him to change his style. I find myself laughing at his posts more often now, even when he's insulting me.
What can I say, his atypical charm is growing on me. In fact, I was even concerned about his recent problems with getting money from his home bank and going to California. Anyone have any updates?
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I like KoM and don't mind his style. It's kinda one of those things where you (well, I) go, "Oh, that's just KoM, don't take it personally, he's always this way." In that light, even at his most ascerbic, he is often very funny.
My personal favorite was the post where he mocked up a parent's note to God for their child to get out of making moral choices that day. Sometimes I think he's got a better idea of who God is than most Christians.
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I find him obnoxious. He may have a good point or two buried under there, but by and large, eh. I think he's really extraordinarily rude--which, to me, kind of trumps any other good aspects that he might otherwise possess.
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OSC defended KoM once too, something about KoM saying something bratty about America, and OSC agreed with him in a kind of funny way. It was on the other side, but I don't remember where, exactly.
The guy bugs me to no end, but I'm kinda with jeniwren. I've pretty much accepted that that is just the way he is.
It only really bothers me when people suggest that he tone it down a bit and he goes on about how he doesn't care what a group of people on the internet think of his style. If you don't care, leave! Go to some other internet forum where they approve of needless flamewarring! Jeez.
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FWIW, it was not my intention to put him down in this thread.
Now, since it has been brought up, I appreciate it when he makes an effort to not call theists idiots. I think it's unfortunate that it takes him so much effort.
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I like KoM and I usually agree with his viewpoint. He can be quite entertaining but he misses the bar in most discussions that require tact. I'd equate expecting tact from Kom on a sensitive subject to attempting to construct a ship in a bottle with a framing hammer.
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One other thing I appreciate about KoM is that although his posting style is often needlessly provocative, he actually participates in the thread he's posting in, as opposed to making useless comments that are essentially masturbatory and contribute nothing to the thread topic.
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I suppose so. I must have some feelings of inadequacy to begin with. My apologies for the persecution complex
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quote:Originally posted by Enigmatic: When KoM gets settled into California and back on Hatrack, I hope he finds this thread and rips into all of us for being so sentimental.
I see that you, like many others, have been suckered in by his prickly persona. I think he's secretly a fuzzy teddy bear at heart. Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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As I was the first to say , I like him. KoM was always the first to laugh at himself and one of the first to go along with a joke. I always looked at him as a kind of atheist Andy Kaufman, someone who parodied himself, his persona as a religion hater so well, that the real him was often overlooked.
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I don't think hatrack is the most sentimental place on the internet, I'm on a horse message board that gets upset when someone tells them that they did something at all wrong in a nice constructive way, there are about 20 people like that there out of 30, hatracks much better than that, we can embrace the funny at least.
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quote: Bears have claws, Twink. And big nasty sharp teeth. Also a penchant for viscious mauling.
I'm having this vision of Enigmatic, Mr. McGoo like, cuddling up with a teddy opossum every night. :lol:
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