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It would be nice to get euphoric baseball to stage a return.
I thought he was the same guy as Julius Branson?
He was. The problem is that while a good chunk of his insights on his pet topic are correct (I think my "r u alt account?" counter sits at either 1 or 2 for him for that reason), he was a single-issue poster on said topic to a degree that would embarrass even SecureSignals and seemed to cross more into trying to [forcefully] recruit for that cause so he flamed out pretty quickly. (Of course, you either flame out quickly or turn into Sloot, which has its own problems.)
The unfortunate thing about the troll/single-issue/unorthodox posters is that while they do ultimately need to be removed, without them my worldview and politics wouldn't be the way they are; I think I've gained value from every single one of them, though perhaps not in the ways they would have intended, and certainly not in ways that are complimentary to their worldviews through the sort of normative/moral lens they themselves are using (where you have to legitimately be an amoral bastard to consider them properly).
Perhaps future forum technology will account for the knowledge base of the community that way? We hint at it here in the way we use the forum with the quality contributions and some posters' tendency to back-reference themselves, but it's not particularly discoverable and so we "lose" those contributions.
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