I'm just waiting for him to see this thread, head down to the liquor store for some more top quality hooch and issue another rant over at TK. I don't think he should come back because he would be incapable of accepting that what he did was wrong and agree not to do it again. He's too busy with his futile quest to be the web's biggest badass to ever do that. In a way it's a shame. His drunken meltdowns have great entertainment value (well, to me anyhow). I will confess to getting amusement out of making him squirm in all manner of directions and drawing out blatant lies from him (such as this week's insistence over at TK that he isn't a drunk despite evidence to the contrary). But the fact is that he is a risk. He's not remotely as clever as he thinks and he hates the fact that he basically been turned into a joke (mostly through his own behaviour) so he resorts to low level attempts to fuck with peoples' lives off the sphere of these online communities, and when a person does that out of desperation simply because they can't stand a bit of trolling, you know that they are probably not conducive to the community. He's still making threats over there regarding my professional life, and while I think he's too yellow to do it because he knows I will actually respond if he tries anything, do we really want someone around here who constantly makes direct malicious threats against members' livelihoods (which is genuinely a criminal offence both sides of the pond btw)? Dayton got a rest for making threats against others and Castle's are much more direct, not least to the extent already mentioned in respect of the work information of @gul and I. I suspect if it were the personal info and livelihoods of @Federal Farmer, @Ron Paul or @Lanzman he'd gone after there's no way we'd be having this debate.
He is just an unemployed drunk on welfare (technically SSDI, which I beliwve he exaggerates due to just being a lazy piece of shit) who screams stupid crap, much of which are obvious lies. It has been nine months since he released one terrible chapter of his book and where is the rest or even revisions to make the one existing chapter readable or coherent? There is nothing because he is too busy trying to scrounge enough tin cans to get his next bottle for the morning.
Even the chapter is gone from Amazon. This isn't the first time, either. He released a sample of anther novel a few years back, 1500 rambling words or so, and that likewise disappeared, despite his claim that the rest was nearly complete.
As much as it's a laugh that he's doing it, fair play to him. If there are people daft enough to pay him for the service I've lost count of the number of people I've seen set themselves up as Independent Consultants, making money selling advice for something they are pretty poor at in the first place.
He's great at writing fiction -- just review his posting history here and at Troll Kingdom. He lacks the ability to pull it together as a unified, coherent package, though, which is why his novels never get off the ground. I did see, however, that he is now hocking some porn he wrote ten years ago through his Twitter feed. I guess that's one thing he managed to write to completion.
Does he have an account at Patreon or Gratipay? People could pay him pennies per week for his blogging efforts.
He occasionally makes smallish comments on my FB posts, but once in a while he goes full castle on my ass. It's kind of nostalgic. I have another friend who's as unstable as he is - I'm just dying for them to go at each other some day.
Indeed. If you find something that people will pay for and you have the balls to wrap it up as 'added value' then might as well
Aren't you glad I like ya! As for John, I don't know how to weigh in on this. I was away during the time, I don't read TK, but if he wants back in, he knows where to reach the board owners.