[Oyk]

The short answer is 'yes.' You need to be thick-skinned if you're going to trade banter in the cut and thrust of forum debate. I am in the same mould as Oyk, yourself and the usual suspects - those thick-skinned posters you see with a lot of staying power despite getting a lot of heat. We exchange barbs regularly behind a veil of anonymity, secure in the knowledge that criticism and insults wouldn't hurt but real sticks and stones would.

Something I find very off-putting is those disgustingly filthy jokes being spewed around like nobody's business. They usually fell flat and they speak of a sick mind. I know roughly who are behind those obscenities and vulgarized versions of many of our original comments. Obscenities stink and defile the forum but, like insults and name-calling, they wouldn't hurt.

One might use the F word occasionally to make an emphasis or to express a feeling.  One might also use KNN or CCB for the same reason.

But when one spends his entire time scouring the net for porn or soft porn and creating gifs or photoshopping peektures just to try to irritate He Who Cannot Be Irritated, it shows a sick mind indeed.

1. He registered several user ids.
2.  He used them to vote in the poll
3.  He used them to post obscene peektures with impunity
4.  He owns the forum and cannot be pban or even banned because he is the Admin.

He is sick in the mind due to some reason(s) only he knows.  But at the same time, he is also able to function - buy food, maybe buy beer to lim, learn some computer stuff, start a forum...

Such peepur are candidates for suicide.  This is why I went easy with him.  He is pitiable, the state of mind he is in.  We won't achieve anything by whacking him.  So, I just let nature run its course to whatever conclusion his current state of mind would lead...