Fair enough @enothecool, I will put an asterisk next to your name in my list of the suspected trolls.
For the record, I did mark a number of your posts as off-topic after you firmly put yourself in the center of attention regarding spamming of the forums.
I went back to the threads that you have been contributing to, and took a second look at the posted content.
First observation was that on many of the threads, that were recently locked, you were one of the top contributors.
I found a few of your posts that were helpful and informative, but in the vast majority of cases, I din’t see your posts adding much value to the educational process or being aligned with the mission of the VRC.
I consider this to be mostly a distraction to the students who come here to seek help and discuss technical and organizational issues.
For young people it is not easy to stay focused on the learning and keep themselves from being distracted by the countless memes and other empty content that internet has to offer.
Granted, that everybody needs some good laughter to stay happy, too much of the memes is not good for your brain.
Therefore, it is our job to keep the discussion balanced with any distractions not exceeding healthy FDA mandated levels, and some forum members understand that better than others:
So I think we have all noticed there has been steep decline in the quality of the vexforum lately, and many chit-chat/rumor mill topics have collapsed into meaningless spam. I’ve also noticed that DRow is getting unnecessarily pinged quite often. I make this topic to ask all you frequent chit-chat/rumor mill goers to please settle down. I get that these posts are in the chit-chat/rumor mill category, but its reached the point where there are multiple active topics with nothing but useless spam and DRow pings.
But I didn’t just make this topic to complain, but to offer a solution. you lads seem to enjoy just chatting and nonsense, so I will take the initiative to create a large PM where you can do just that. Then you can spam and ping drow all you want (pretty sure he doesn’t get pings from pm’s) and the public chit-chat/rumor mill threads can return to being used for their intended purposes.