On 5/25/2021 4:18 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2021 16:05:15 -0600, wolfy's new skateboard
> > wrote:
>
>> On 5/25/2021 3:54 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 May 2021 15:50:14 -0600, wolfy's new skateboard
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wonder, if one were to have such powers, what a contract to
>>>> permanently silence your endless spam would cost...
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we could all do a gofundme.
>>>>
>>>> :-/
>>>
>>> When 'Bruce' either stops posting or stops trolling here, it will go
>>> away.
>>
>> Iow - never.
>>
>> So here's what doesn't add up - why are you frogging Dave Smith if you
>> want Bruce gone?
>>
>> Help me out man.
>
> I'll explain this. Not many people will read it or understand it but
> I'm assuming you will.

I'll give it a try.

>
> I'm the original Bruce.

I had NO idea.

> A troll took offense to my uplifting,
> constructive style of posting. So he started posting repetitive
> nonsense under my name, so that people would killfile that name, and
> therefore me. Each time I changed my name to become visible again, he
> changed his name too. So then I changed my name to that of a regular
> he Dave Smith. Thinking that people wouldn't killfile that name as
> quickly, because they'd also lose the regular, whose posts are
> riveting material. So the troll followed and is now posting his
> repetitive nonsense under the name Dave Smith.

So we have a real Dave Smith and 2 forgeries?

> Of course there are more advanced ways of killfiling than just by
> name. But many people aren't very advanced.

I resemble that I guess.

Thanks for explaining it to me.

Any chance you can go back to your original name and maybe just make
something in it unique?

Like add in a @ symbol or a tm.