Quote from hapaboy:
Although it may appear that Wild and his disciple Fairplay have hung their heads in defeat and left ET, I fear that being the fanatics they are, they're most likely planning a new cut-and-paste-with-links assault and are probably frantically scouring the net this very minute searching for obscure, extremist data to bombard us with.
I doubt we've heard the last of them. 'boo hoo, sob, sniff'
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Quote from max401:
One thing is certain, wild stopped posting on 11/23, since that time, posting to chit-chat political interest threads has dropped to a trickle. Gotta wonder how many aliases he was using. [/QUOTE]
I know you mean "1/23": I don't think that wild was using aliases, at all. FYI, and Op7s can fill you in better, I believe that wild was banned, perhaps permanently, as a result of cumulative complaints that climaxed around the time of a super-wildian performance in the chatroom. On that day, it first seemed to me that wild was opening up a bit, actually conversing or doing a fair imitation, even showing something resembling a sense of humor about himself. Near the end of the trading session, though, he appeared to be getting obsessed with a DER SPIEGEL-online response to Rumsfeld's comments about Europe, and started pasting extended German language excerpts, one after another, irrepressibly. I'm not kidding. Since as far as I know I was the only person in the chatroom at the time who could even read German, as wild also knew, I felt that his behavior was largely directed at me. I told him I thought it was childish, and impolite to everyone, and I finally told him I was going to put him on IGNORE, and did so, then yesterday learned about the ban.
I'm not completely sure that wild was totally unsalvageable - personally, that is - though I am completely sure that he was annoying, and that he showed precious little reason for anyone to expect that he'd grow up anytime soon. It'll be interesting to see how his former allies or fellow travelers will react, beyond a likely conspiracy theory and bitter, virulently anti-American commentary.
I bet that even as we discuss this, wild is inflicting himself or more likely his c&p's on some other web site frequented by Americans, and perhaps plotting a return.