A serious question for the Dayton haters....

Do we pile on the man too much? Genuine question.

I think the guy has genuine mental problems at the brain level, so I try to hold back.
I goof on him sometimes, but it's never venomous, or going for the throat.
I usually try to get through to that speck of him capable of reason.
Eternal optimism, I dunno.

Yes. But then he'll such fucked up things you just have no choice but to respond. Like a good troll...but he's not trolling

Dayton has to be a sham, I can't imagine anyone would be that.....bizarre.

Did you miss the thread where someone found his sexist TNG letter to Starlog from the mid-90's?
It was Dayton-y.
No way he kept a character going THAT long.
Nope, he's real.

If that's the case, holy shit.

Starlog letter?????

Others have made the point that he thrives on the attention, and I think that's valid. It fits with his worldview that he's "saved," the rest of us are doomed, and any negative attention he receives, in his mind, only guarantees him a higher tier in the afterlife.

I think it was Starlog...someone found a site with scanned back-issues of shitloads of magazines with a searchable transcription database, and they found Dayton in the letters column.

Ayup.

@We Are Borg Did you ever find any responses backing up Dayton's positions like he claimed there was?

You're thinking of NotDayton.

I don't think anyone hates Dayton so much as they are bewildered by his bizarreness. Some others like myself feel pity for him. But hate? Naw, there are exactly two people in this world whose graves I intend to seek out with a bladder full of urine, but Dayton isn't one of them..

Also, I've only just heard of that Starlog thread, and the computer system on the ship won't let the link open up. Can anyone copy his letter here without getting in trouble?

While the content has clearly been digitized as text -- because there's an option to have it read aloud -- it doesn't look like there's a user-accessible way to copy and paste it. From the front end, it's just a big image that you scroll around.

I don't hate Dayton. I wish the best for him, and everyone else.

Nope.

Have you noticed how often NotDayton fools someone into thinking it's Dayton? It's that good.

There's a couple of ways to do it, I had to download the text file and do a search to find Dayton's letter. Here it is in all its glory.

What show was that? The first two seasons of TNg that made Voyager look like Breaking Bad? Berman may have run the franchise into the ground, but he stepped in at the right time.

Soooo, the Bible mentions nothing about love thy neighbor and turn the other cheek? Okay, then.

That aside (and Dayton, do not take this as me agreeing with anything in that atrociously fanboyish letter you wrote), "I, Borg" is arguably the turning point in which the Borg became less fearsome. They were intended to be a one-time thing that took off, but how much more could one do with an adversary that was basically indefetable out the gate? Granted, TNG did this with far more class and entertainment value than Voyager did, but the result is about the same.

The only way I can see myself ever having any respect for Dayton is if it somehow turns out that NotDayton is a Dayton dual. I'd have to rethink everything about him if that were the case. That would make Dayton the best troll ever.

Sadly, while I don't know who NotDayton is, I'm sure it's not Dayton.

NotDayton is not Dayton, that's all I'm saying.

Dayton has to exist. If he didn't his pilers on would create him, or at least nominate BJ to be the nuDayton.

Dayton is the Meg Griffin of Wordforge?

Dayton takes offense whenever someone questions his teaching abilities, and will consider anything said against him in that regard as derogatory. But at the same time he considers himself an expert on many matters or positions. He considers his expertise to having read about it, So he has no problem telling others that in their line of work they are incompetent or lacking while having zero experience. Yet he will point out that others have no experience in teaching and because of that have no relevant opinion on the topic.

That's just one of the things he does that causes him to be so ridiculed and put upon.

Yeah. No way he's pulling a Christian Bale from The Prestige.

The worst part of this is that I was one of the few British subscribers to Starlog and I got all those magazines. Probably still got a few somewhere in my parent's attic.

Still, paying to read Dayton's shit isn't half as bad if he then got slated...

An even worse part of it is that I read his letter and the teenage me would have largely agreed with him (save that I,Borg was a classic).

Imagine paying for other people to read Dayton's shit.

I'm not that stupid!