What if TER required either a review written every 90 days or paid membership to post on the boards?  Might that sweep out some of this Udoesque trolling?  Hell even one review a year might do it...trolls are gonna troll until it hits them in the wallet.  Annoying to have to scroll past all this nonsense to get to something interesting.

You are boring and bring no incite or emotion to the board.

Well so much for that idea; I mistakenly assumed from your disjointed and incoherent posts, designed not to illuminate to entertain but simply to elicit visceral responses, that yours was more the style of a lurker.  And yes, you certainly bring "incite" to the board...insight, not so much.

get a long here..  FUCK !!!  You guys are like five year olds kids...Not just you guys but most of the guys on these boards.  The sad thing is they are like 5- to 60 years old.

I have noticed more than once now.
You are requesting to meet certain hobbyist and
"Settle your differences"
Where I come from.. That's a threat, and a big no no on this board.
Careful they don't delete your ass.

to ignore them.

Not that I'm holding my breath for this to catch on here, but anything else is a Band-Aid.

I lov'em.

Some truth to that I suppose...my issue is more with these posts that are just patent garbage with only one purpose, to generate an indignant thread.  My mother loved providers, a provider surprised me by bringing her sister, etc.  That's the 5 year old stuff.

But he's all talk...NO action.

Oh I know...I just thought it might be fun to lure the troll from under the bridge .  It's funny they moved the thread, I guess the jest was too subtle.

Trolls are like that proverbial "pimple on your ass"..you know it is there..it might bother you a little..but eventually it loses it's pus and just goes away..

they have his room ready at the Hotel California..

is more fake reviews.

As for Udolt and the rest of the SPOTY candidates, trolls are a part of TER, they always have been and they always will be.

In theory the best way to neuter a troll is to simply ignore him, but we all know in practice that never seems to happen, my only other potential solution is to simply ridicule them, hence the SPOTY's

What I'm starting to wonder, and keep in mind I've been on the boards about a month so I don't know shit and may be stating the obvious, is if Udo and numberonehobbyist or fidiot or whatever, are just alter egos of escalade...they certainly all seem to be Johnny on the spot for each other in some of the threads.

yep..birds of a feather always flock together..trolls and vultures fit the bill..

The boards are exactly the way TER wants them to be...

& Sullivan.  Seriously, I also was wondering if there are one or two schizoid posters playing with themselves, so to speak. Not a bad gambit for an aspiring author.

I am a member of another board that has a specific board for trolls to rant & let me tell you the regional boards are a whole lot more welcoming, fun & informative. Just a thought.