There are eight games this week, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H. Vote for one player per game in the two polls. Votes from gimmick accounts and non-politics posters won't count.

GROUP A:

GAME A: Deuces (1) vs. MissileDog (16)

GAME B: AlexM (8) vs. thekid345 (9)

GAME C: LowKey (4) vs. spanky (13)

GAME D: Gamblor (5) vs. bahba (12)

Never even heard of thekid345 until now. Quick username search - seems like he mostly posts in the Israel Palestine thread and is accused of being anti-Semitic? Any key posts?

If my impression is correct, it seems like him versus Gamblor would be a great match-up.

I'd never heard of him either; I think he posts exclusively in the Israel threads.

Deuces is by every measure awful. Stupid, arrogant, bigoted and mean. MD is a good poster idea wise but his post formatting is awful.

I'm not voting for him because Alex's volume is too great- but kid might be the least readable of this whole group. One issue, tons of butthurt, no sense of humor. Awful.

Spank is the kind of guy who tried to lie about having a mental illness when he started losing an argument. He deliberately makes his posts unreadable, which masks how completely ****ing stupid his ideas actually are. He got so upset about criticism of his modding that he's twisted himself into a totally ****tarded position on racism. Low Key is dense and way overzealous, but seems nice and Giz means he's winning at life if not posting.

baba is dumb as nards and has no idea how if internet.

Wow, thekid is more unreadable than MD? That's crazy.

Also, I wouldn't mind some of Deuces' greatest hits. I've barely read any of his posts, but my impression was that they weren't that bad. Without any more information I'm inclined to agree with DVaut that he probably gets a lot of hate because it's "fashionable" to do so. But as I said, I have limited information. I heard he made some really dumb posts in the Trayvon Martin thread, anyone care to quote and explain them?

People voting for Gamblor are doing it wrong. The dude wants to win.

bahbah, on the other hand, has no idea what's going on. However, at some point he will once again bump one of the inequality threads to make some idiotic non sequitur about the Occupy movement with a terrible analogy to reinforce some stupid point that has already been thoroughly refuted 100 times.

thekid345 is terrible, his presence in a thread is summed up in a bingo card floating around somewhere

I'm under the impression that the majority of Deuces's bad is in the Israel thread, but IDK, I avoid that stuff like the plague.

Yeah- who is this KellyRae account?

Anyone who his familiar with kid will know that this is spot on

LK vs Spank is living up to expectations thus far. The only match of interest ITT, TBH.

I usually skip his posts but my impression is he's the Gamblor of Muslims. Only really cares about the one topic and is so awful within that framework that he's still universally hated.

You're just mad that you never saw Whitney

Should have included in the OP that Gizmo has 2 troll accounts that she posts equally bad on. L.K and Anais.

You're just trying way too hard to get her attention. It's making you look kinda beta, dude.

We should have a Politics' Official Worst Avatars tourney after this concludes. PVN would be a bigger lock than Deuces is in this one, but Sputnik is an easy silver medalist.

Why do you think that was aimed at Gizmo?

This is an interesting thought. You should expand on it.

This is just ridiculous. Gizmo obviously isn't the main account.

Gamblor v bahbah is an interesting turn of events

I don't really remember what bahbah's deal was but I remember Gamblor talking about sterilizing immigrants until they learned to not **** in the street - so he got my vote.

You're pretty far away from getting the point of this, Nichlemn. It's not about actual posting, like actual reasoning, insightful observations, citing relevant scholarship or articles to bear on an issue, clarity of expression, humor or things like that. This is about 'I disagree with your politics and I am going to exploit the group think dynamic in order to marginalize you as a poster because I can't deal with your actual debate'.

If it were about actual bad posting, here or in the bad posters thread, you would see a lot more actual quotation and serious criticism alongside references to some idea of what bad or good posting is. Instead what you see is name calling and piling on. Rare exceptions to this are made for ikes, SM2 and a very few other legitimately bad posters .When it comes to them you really do see some quoting and dissecting. I've been able to solicit a few attempts at actual review of my posts (I figure it's only fair since my name is constantly dragged through the mud) and the resulting criticism has been predictably shallow/idiotic.

Check the tape in my estimation.

You are legitimately a bad poster, DM.