Just joined and thought I'd start by saying hello.

Welcome to the mad house, only kidding. Most of the folk who post on this site are good guys.

Cheers!!

Nice name

Welcome

pensioner wrote:Welcome to the mad house, only kidding. Most of the folk who post on this site are good guys.

Speak for yourself. I'm an evil bastard.

Yay evil!

Actually, no. I'm kind of boring. But some of the good guys are actually girls. What's more, some of the girls are actually women.

Welcome to the forum by the way.

Welcome!

Welcome to the forum, Macky!

Nicko wrote:
I'm an evil bastard.

I'm a bit of a grammar Nazi, does that count?

But some of the good guys are actually girls. What's more, some of the girls are actually women.

Nicko wrote:

pensioner wrote:Welcome to the mad house, only kidding. Most of the folk who post on this site are good guys.

Speak for yourself. I'm an evil bastard.

Yay evil!

Actually, no. I'm kind of boring. But some of the good guys are actually girls. What's more, some of the girls are actually women.

Welcome to the forum by the way.

There are women here??

Welcome aboard

Yo.

Fallible wrote:

Nicko wrote:

pensioner wrote:Welcome to the mad house, only kidding. Most of the folk who post on this site are good guys.

Speak for yourself. I'm an evil bastard.

Yay evil!

Actually, no. I'm kind of boring. But some of the good guys are actually girls. What's more, some of the girls are actually women.

Welcome to the forum by the way.

There are women here??

Hi!

G'day from Brisbane, Australia.

Welcome Macky

yo cheers

Macky at FRDB:

Macky Avelli wrote:I make no secret of the fact that I was a member of RatSkep many times. Yes, I was banned from there but it's effectively a forum for atheists. These things happen. They thought I was trolling even though I wasn't. It's no big deal, it's easy to join again.

I thought he was banned for sockpuppeting? You know, reneging on his agreement not to open multiple accounts. Or, to put it another way, blatant and repeated dishonesty.

Nicko wrote:I thought he was banned for sockpuppeting? You know, reneging on his agreement not to open multiple accounts. Or, to put it another way, blatant and repeated dishonesty.

He's hinted (confessed?) that he already has a number of sockpuppets over there already (and he's trying to pretend that it's normal for everyone to have them). I guess we'll be seeing him here again someday.

Macky Avelli wrote:

Keith&Co. wrote:

Macky Avelli wrote:

If I get banned, is it ok if I start a new account? Just kidding. But I bet some of your regular members have more than one account, you know, just to spice things up. It's not unheard of.

Why would you bet that?

Well, it's not like I'm a betting man or anything like that, but if I was, I would probably be quite confident in betting that some of you regular, long standing members have sockpuppets. It's not unheard of. In fact it happens more than most people think. And why not? If I was a long standing member myself I'd do it too. It makes you wonder who you're really debating with sometimes.

Here's where I found his posts- http://www.freeratio.org/showthread.php?t=324753&page=8

patient zero wrote:He's hinted (confessed?) that he already has a number of sockpuppets over there already (and he's trying to pretend that it's normal for everyone to have them). I guess we'll be seeing him here again someday.

Unfortunately I think you're right pz. *sigh*

Not all socks are as problematic as Macky Avelli was. Sometimes people make duplicate accounts 'accidentally' as it were, Perhaps they sign up from work because they can't remember their account details or create another account when they've been away from the forum for a while or if they lose their login info when they change their computer etc. But serial sockpuppeteers are invariably rampant attention-seeking narcissists who can't just can't seem to help themselves, and need to provoke and antagonise others out of some bloated sense of their own importance. These types of malicious, disruptive, irrational idiots generally get banned pretty quickly, where the other type just have their accounts merged or the second account deactivated.

Anyway, at least Macky Avelli is no longer troubling the membership here, even if your link shows him boasting about it and plying his trade elsewhere.