Heh, upon finding out the #1 poster in that thread had, at the time, 74 posts:

Then and now...

I like pvn's post two above yours: the frasier dog riding on lil' sebastian

Probably yo momma.

Might as well not count any of them then.

Trolly talking to himself? Elaborate ruse? Diction, grammar, etc very similar...

The fact that you actually believe this indicates just how ****ing turrible of a poaster you are.

Can't believe you guys can't tell the difference between me and MissileDog. Like, I never use colored text.

All the worse posters are my favourite.

You were more fun when you were rumsfeld and were more combative.

There was a horrible Nichlemn post just 10 posts before yours.

Anyway, he's awful. Creates posts where he thinks he's making some clever insight, but is actually regurgitating a Randian position only slightly meatier than "Yo! Capitalism is the unknown ideal, dig it!". Then sticks his head in the sand and ignores all the points made against his idealized position which would fail in the real world, or whatever the inevitable failure happens to be with his "logic". Then dismisses all responses as butthurt or something, and learns nothing in the end. Rinse. Repeat.

His fallacy factory while posing as a deep-thinking intellectual annoys me more than posters who just post bad due to partisan entrenchment and are easily dismissed. But taste varies.

LOL, really? You thought (and still think) you were going over people's heads? LOL.

This.

No, its probably because it was ****ing obvious to everyone, even you, snowflake!

all of them

In no particular order though I think I've made it clear I think Ikestoys is near if not at the top. Some of these are low volume but are consistently just bad trolls:

ikestoys
Deuces McKracken
champstark (I hope this is the correct one as I always get the good one and the bad one with similar name confused)
Proph
bahbahmickey
Silver_Man2
thekid345
forchar
Cwocwoc
omnishakira
Cerveza69
Neg3d
Omnishakira (since I assume his goal would to be on this list... by his standards this is probably a win?)
Steeeelhouse

omnishakira is obviously gunning for the list but the fact is he's actually turrible at being a bad poster. He's such an obvious troll that it's too easy to just completely screen him out. He gets the donks mad but he really needs to up his game if he wants to put any halfway decent poster on tilt.

youre right but since theres no or almost no decent poster on this forum my current game is fine

Try going into the Israel Palestine thread and getting both sides to hate you equally.

my top 10, plus a brief summary of why each grinds my gears:

ikestoys - hubris, excessive back-walking
Deuces McKracken - hubris ("I have formally studied racism")
Cerveza69 - non-ironic use of the word "libtard"
Gamblor - rigidity, plagiarism
Proph - insanity
JiggsCasey - hubris, general dickishness
omnishakira - waste of time and space
rulzbreker79 - superficial drudge-bot
thekid345 - single-mindedness
sputnik3000 - general WTF-edness

I actually don't know how you guys keep track of who the bad posters are. I'm bad at remembering names and half of you switch accounts so often that I don't even know who the hell anyone is.

I know I think Deuces is bad. I think AlexM too. Although I seem to remember him going in phases.

27AllIn is pretty horrendous. In fact anybody that posts image quotes in a non-mocking way is ****ing horrible.

FoldIn seems pretty bad. I'm still enjoying how hard he went to bat for BruceZ's posts not being racist only to have BruceZ admit they were racist. That was pretty fun.

Ikes is bad. But I don't know if he's that much worse than other people or people bitch about him so much that I just haven't forgotten that he's bad.

I know I've thought pvn is bad, but I don't remember why and his BruceZ work was pretty A+ so I can't nominate him.

Swissmiss seemed pretty obtuse in the BruceZ thread but has seemed much better in other threads. So maybe most of that was language issues. Anyway, we just hugged it out so I can't nominate her.

I used to think PaulD was bad for white knighting bad posters - but he seems to have gotten over that.

Are we're talking WOAT, so we can nominate iron81 and Nielsio if we want?

I figure it's open to anyone you want to nominate.

Current Top Standings:

Deuces McKracken 12
ikestoys 11
DudeImBetter 9
Low Key 9
AlexM 8
bahbahmickey 8
Dids 8
FlyWf 8
FoldnDark 8
Paul D 8
Proph 8
thekid345 8
Gamblor 7
JiggsCasey 7
MissileDog 7
Nichlemn 7
spanktehbadwookie 7

Deuces and ikes pulling ahead of the pack, to no one's surprise. thekid and MissileDog gaining momentum. HowardBeale has slipped from the rankings, with only 6 votes. Omni has gained ground, but still not enough if he wants a ticket to the big dance --kurto voting for him twice almost fooled me. Almost.

This comes across as if you'd read the post I posts I've made in this thread and like, one other. Like I don't think I've ever tried to blame anything on butthurt except indirectly in this thread. And few of my posts could be construed as a supporting a "Randian" idea.

What usually happens is that I'll start a thread tossing about some idea, not necessarily one that I think is rock solid. Often I might only half-agree with it at most and am just interested in seeing what arguments people can come up to refute it. A lot of the time, though, all of the arguments people post really suck. They'll just be trivial nittery, the equivalent of replying to the famous trolley problem by saying "but but being put into a situation where a lever can change things is extremely unlikely to happen in the REAL WORLD" then high five each other that they sure how showed that dumbass Nichlemn fails to understand how things REALLY WORK. Maybe my posts really do suck, but I'll posit that the people trying to reply to them suck even more.

The main reason I think ideology has a ton to do with it, is that I used to make tons of criticisms of ACism and a lot of liberals used to applaud it. Then later, I started using the exact same methods to attack liberal ideas, and suddenly it was all faux-intellectualism and fallacious and what not. It's utterly transparent that the ideology drives the disparity.

If we're going after "faux intellectualism", I'm going to nominate Phone Booth. (Disclaimer: possible butthurt). A ton of his posts are just "You propose changing the status quo, but if your proposal was better, it would already be the status quo, QED" or long essays on human psychology which sound smart but are really just **** he made up that is one big long [citation needed].
Also notable are his passive aggressive personal attacks like "What are the causes of autistic thought patterns? My theory runs as follows..."

Gamblor -- plagiarism, cynical specious fog spraying
DudeImBettor -- pseudointellectual snot

And since I've only suggested two they count double.

Pretty honored to be thought of as the pro-freedom zikzak tbh