Letter From mrskippy
 

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=108381

Its merry christmas... damn you holiday!!!

why is my question?

Make him go by Subby if he comes back.

I can't believe how much people care about a message board. I mean, I enjoy my time here, but if I was forced to leave for whatever reason, I wouldn't emote all over the place in grandiose fashion.

well, earlier I agreed with JIMG, so I guess lightning can strike twice.

it's a freaking message board. relax.

Mrs kippy...shaping the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

::shudder::

With the title "super-duper-gay."

My reaction exactly: mrskippy is a teacher? Whatever happened to abuse of children? :horror:

Bring him back..Or will he not accept that?


Seriously though, what's the worst that could happen?

He could post more pictures of himself in nurses shoes.....

Not that I would write a letter like mrskippy wrote, but I have made some friends here I never would have if it wasn't for FOFC... so to me it's a little bit more than your normal run of the will message board. To each his own I guess.

hey lets not all knock the guy for expressing regret and apologizing for the way he acted. takes a real man to do that.

Yeah, a real super duper gay man, according to JohnGalt. :D

didn't this already happen? do we have to go back...to the future?

again

He did do and say some stupid things, but really, how many chances did HM get? Letting him come back won't bother me at all. He already knows he would have to take a lot of shit just for coming back. If he is serious it shouldn't be an issue. If not, easy solution.

i agree. i'm all for second chances. hell, i think we should give Sui a second chance too. but then again he was hilarious. if not, the solution is quite easy.

in 2006, every jackass should get a chance to redeem themselves. If they act like a douchebag again, just fucking re-ban their ass.

that would make for an amusing week.

Takes even bigger men to forgive...

That sort of letter is exactly what that sort of person would write.

2 things to remember:

1. No matter what lucy or charlie would say or do, lucy would always pull the football away at the last moment.

2. Read up on the scorpion and the frog.

Yes
Suicane

No
HM
Mrs Kippy
Happy29

Who the hell else am I forgetting about that got a perma-ban?

Wig
Wignifty(the real troll of the family)

He had me at "open".

The only way for him to ever be respected here is to retire mrskippy and start with a new username. Sorry.

I agree because I still am not sure if it is Mr. Skippy or Mrs. Kippy. :D

Problem is, that has already been tried. He botched that one, too.

The thread about the board ownership and this one convince me that there's some serious revisionist thinking going on around here. He was given TWO second-chances, one with a new name (with my blessing/knowledge), and another as mrskippy. He went over the top and got himself banned both times, and he also created and posted under at least two new accounts while under suspension/banning. He's done more to justify a perma-ban-without-reconsideration than anyone I've dealt with. Further, I don't read anywhere in his post that he explicitly is asking to be reinstated, anyway. Still, I find myself actually considering it. Sheesh. Why, you ask? Read on.

The fact is that I genuinely feel sorry for the guy. I'm convinced that Horns/wigs/druez types chooseto behave the way they do on the boards. I'm sure those four in particular are perfectly capable of being "normal" members, but they seem to get a kick out of controversy, and for that I don't particularly begrudge them, but look-at-me posters create more problems than whatever entertainment value they bring, and that's why they're gone. On the other hand, from what I could tell, mrskippy wasn't acting like a jerk just to be a jerk. He truly seemed completely incapable of avoiding it. That's the sad part to me. IF I can be convinced that he's truly changed and IF he explicitly were to ask for a reinstatement, I'd consider it, but it wouldn't be in the next few days/weeks, and it would unquestionably be under a new and unrelated screen name. It would have to be a situation like Braggadocious, where he just shows up as a new poster, doesn't post 40-something times in one day (Yes, mrskippy did that under his new name the first time), and flies under the radar for an extended period of time.

I understand him on some way, I would really hate to be banned from FOFC as i have good virtual friends here, i enjoy a lot talking about games, or having fun with jokes, or learning other countries cultures and traditions. I have the board always open in an IE session as i work from home so that way i feel i'm not alone, it's like working in a big room where you can raise your eyes from your computer screen to talk about something with any of your work mates to relax a bit from the work. Then after 10 minutes of talking, i go back to my screen to work. Else probably i would get burned so fast from working alone from home.

I also think that some ppl here takes other board members words too seriously. I agree banning board spammers, trolls that only do damage on every post with racist or illegal writing, or that keep posting the same crap in every thread not related, but i don't have a problem with the usual board trolls as i can always ignore them or even have a fight from time to time to send out part of your daily stress in real life, that is the only that matters. I could even get something positive on arguing with a Nazi in a board for example, to know about his reasons to think that way etc. If the thread starts to have more insults than positive discussion then i just leave it and read another one. The only thing that could want me that Nazi banned is if he posted his Nazi crap every time in a FOF strategy thread for example, but if it's into a political thread, well, everybody has a voice even if i don't like what they say.

There are some guys in all the message boards that really anyone me, because they look so stupid or always looking for a fight, sometimes i engage in the fight and most of the times i just ignore them. As i have said before, nothing a guy can say in a message board can really offend me to the point of wanting him banned. If i'm called stupid, probably i'll do it back, but apart from that, what is the real problem? What happens if somebody doesn't agree with me and we start a virtual fight? it's virtual, we can't hit each other so no any possible damage can be done to me. What could be the worst, to be called son of a bitch in a message board? well i'm 30 years old, i don't care what anybody in a message board can say about my loved mother when they don't really know me or her.

Maybe it's because i have been working in internet for 8 years already and have been part tons of different virtual communities full of trolls, but i can fully separate the real and virtual worlds and i don't react the same to the same things on each one.

I would end saying that i would give most the banned members a second, third, whatever chance if they ask forgiving. If they act like a troll again, then just ban them again, it takes seconds to click on the ban/unban button.

fixed it for ya

I really don't want to find out. Really. Please don't.

don't do it. it will end badly, and there are children at risk.

It is just a message board. Most likely he is already posting here under a new name anyway.

So are you saying he wouldn't accept an unbanning? ;)

SI

He's a public school teacher. In the land of stupid lawsuits, I'm surprised they can even say that now.

SI

You mean like... hmm... 47-post astrosfan64? ;)

SI

I'm torn between wanting him back to make fun of him for being so self-serious and melodramatic and not wanting him back because that letter is a sure sign of a ticking time bomb.

I vote for reinstatement of Bragggadocioussssssss..I need my fill of hitler pictures.

Hahaha

New name or old, he is still a racist homophobic douche in my book. Sieg heil!

This doesn't help...

http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum...ad.php?t=10075

Honestly. Who cares?

I do, because I'd really like to see some signs of improvement.

That isn't even the best thread on this matter:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=108965

Just wow.

Today, 03:40 PM	#74
mrskippy Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Northern California Posts: 326 Warnings: 2	Perhaps if someone can recommend something besides FOF that will suit my desire for a pro football game right now. I'm know I'm fuming. I'll suck up to the fact that I'll never own TPF. But, if I could at least get my other licenses back, a hearty recommendation for another game to buy, and perhaps some acknowledgement from the Rahns I would be happy. __________________ iMix -- All Hit Radio All the best hits from the Golden Oldies to Today. A fine mix of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and Now ... iMix is on.

I told myself that I wasn't going to post in either of his threads, but I must admit that I really, really, really want to direct him to Maximum Football right about now.

Better watch out scott, you could get banned around here for saying that. ;)

BTW, this isn't the first time he's done this. Remember his raving about Jim releasing his game on a sunday and how he couldn't buy it since he was at church and had to wait until the initial order backlog were sent out to get his copy?

That there is all the info you need.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...8&postcount=11


:D

That item is remarkable. Just remarkable. I should post the emails he sent me when he wanted to come back here and felt that I personally was violating his rights because he couldn't enjoy FOFC, but that would be wrong.

Suffice to say, I had to quit responding. And every support email with any kind of question gets a response here. I'm sure Farrah does the same. I can only imagine the email trail on that one.

No, that was someone else. And the person who did that calmed down very quickly and is actually quite a nice person. Something else was just bugging him that day.

Ugh. He copied me on many of those.

Well, and when you also add in his public borderline stalking of her, I wouldn't blame her for one second for never, ever opening an e-mail from him if she chose to go that route.

First candidate for 2006 Insightful Post Of The Year.

treedom All Star Starter Join Date: May 2002 Location: Transylvania Posts: 1,684	Quote: Originally Posted by mrskippy I mean, the least Farrah could do is respond, offer some consolation, and show me that I'm valued as a customer. Yeah, but what if you're not? You sound more like a whiny troublemaker to me than a valued customer. __________________ You got a dictionary kicking around? Look up the immigrant...immigrant...immigrant punk.

How does this guy function in real life?

And it's closed. FWIW to my knowledge Farrah doesn't do the tech support, so seeing an email from him given the history may not have seemed a support request, while an email to the support address probably would have already gotten a response with his order IDs.

I'll admit it. I contacted Kuffrey. Sorry for the loss of the continued UIC in that thread, but really the guy doesn't need to embarrass himself any further. Sometimes you need to save people from themselves. :(

Was a good idea to close it. We couldn't have him banned from another forum would we? He had more than enough time to get the game purchased, and admitted he didn't do everything in his power to buy the game.

Complain all he wishes, but I never received any notes for a game license release from the .400 support email, as I handle those. The only notification he was trying to buy another game was asking me to forward the message to Farrah about him wanting to purchase the game.

No official request was made before December 31st, although there was movement today, much past the oft-discussed publicized deadline.

FWIW after the thread was closed, I got a PM from him. Via Tech contacted him and got him, his missing licenses and I dug up as many links as I could to get him the games.

He should be all set... best to let the matter die now (IMO).

I wonder if now he'll rave about you the way he does about Joe Stallings. You may have a new stalker, Scott.

Highly unlikely. :p

I kinda wish that you would also dig up some viruses that would not only wipe out everything on his PC - permanently - but also wipe out everything he has ever done in the realm of the internet.

I was having a crappy day, up until TC forwarded me an email from mrskippy contacting Joe Stallings...asking him if it was ok to buy TPF today. Joe was very gracious, and referred skippy back this way.

But I still had to laugh. The guy PM'ed me at every message board he's aware I'm a member of (except here, thanks SD for making this my skippy free zone), sent me emails to my .400 email, my personal email and my blog email....the lengths skippy is going to get this game is really really frightening.

Dola - Thanks Scott for getting him up and running. You're the best.

Triple Dola - Thanks TC for running interference for me. You're the greatest.

Just wait until he digs up your rose bushes and you wake up to find the head of Wilbur Wildcat in the bed between you and Arlie.

Not five minutes after my last post did I get an email from the OOTP boards...I have another skippy PM waiting for me. Do I dare check it?

I think I'm going to bed instead. I've had a really rough day.

I think it's safe to say that regarding the "letter", I call BS.

Not really much to it. He copied me on it, too.

Ok, now that is just plain weird. It seems to me that he has copied you because he knows he will be the topic of discussion on a number of boards. For whatever reason, he likes being the center of controversy.

The word "douchebag" comes to mind.

And you would limit this wish to the internet because ??? What, you've got something against the offline world?


This comment by She-Rahn actually led to my biggest laugh in the whole thread.
Doesn't it seem virtually inevitable that once he gets the game that he'll absolutely hate it & drive himself (and others) batty complaining about it?

I'm in this one too. Yippee. I was hoping for a respite when he said on the OOTP boards that he was tired of TCY and FOF. But no, I've got mail, too.

If he gets TPF, and spots as much as one typo in the documentation, watch for a 40-page treatise on how Farrah herself is legally obligated to come to his house and personally correct it.

Today.....

After doing piss all about it for the past 30 months.

Tool.

Just read it, and you're right. I hope he's done now.

Naw, that would never happen - we all know TPF is perfect.

Man this guy is just a plain idiot. I feel for you all that you have to deal with his stupidity.

He's a teacher of young minds, remember. Or so he says.

Would that work? I love to have Farah over....for coffee, guys. Gee, get your mind out of the gutter.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=108993

What a buffon.

I think he should be banished much like star trek was banished on futurama. Just speaking his name should get you banned :D

Who's name??

/shh come on guys let him answer. :D

The next time I'm in the state of Georgia, I'll let you know. Just don't expect me to crack open the TPF code and fix anything, cause I'm clueless. ;)

Nah, I just like talking with smart women (According to my wife, that is all I'm allowed to do). Arles I'd like to have over for coffee, and chain him to a computer until he fixes BBCF. :)

If I offer to rent him out for that, does that make me his pimp? :D

You'd look good in a wide-brimmed hat, a diamond studded leisure suit and a walking stick.

I'm thinking you just hit on the Rahn family adults Halloween costume theme for 2006.

She-Rahn as pimpdaddy, He-Rahn as a Stewart Avenue working girl.
(For those who don't know that area of the ATL, Arlie in drag would be about par for the course there)

Don't forget my pimp juice cup.

You can put the Little-Rahn on a chain and he can be the bling.