Moderators and administrators should have a look at the activity of Mike Burr, Andre.Ziegler and grits n gravy

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• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 2:41 PM

   

   
  

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  Ban this second account of MrX/MS Helper.

  When you would read my posts, you should know that I have excellent Windows internals knowledge, I provide guides on msfn.org for free and help all user in my freetime like this:

  http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=140264

  Like I told in my topic, please remove all Points for answering posts to stop the SPAM. I will continue to help, but user like MS Help, MrX will stop because they no longer get points for their SPAM.

   

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• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 2:52 PM

   

   
  

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  hahahaha. Is that your response? It is really poor

  why you were attacking Mr Aski who is a MVP?

  You think that you are more valuable than him?

  Can you give me examples of non-sense replies posted by Mr X?

  What is the the problem to copy MSFT replies (solution_provider) when they are the right responses?

  What you are doing is the SPAM (You are attacking users and stopping them from helping other users). The people that you reported are doing their best to solve users' problems.

  You want to throw out valuable users. Do you have a proof of an abusive activity made of them?

  Hope you will answer all these questions.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:56 PM

   

   
  

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  The people that you reported are doing their best to solve users' problems.

  Not true, the people that are being reported as abusive are not doing their best to solve users problems.  They are doing their best to score points and gain medals.  Helping users, is a pretex for those activities, their actions are all about the following

  1) Posting as many times as possible to get 2 points per post....when a single post would be sufficent.

  2) Using various bogus accounts to ask "lame" questions so their main account can answer them, and get the 10 points.

  3) User other accounts to mark their main account posts as "Helpful"

  Abusive, is probably the wrong term for these actions, but reporting as abuse is all the Fourms offers to weed out these people.

  If Mr X and MS Helper, where really interested in "helping users" they would behave the same way 99% of the other forum users do, which is

  1) Post as much information in a single Post as needed to answer the question, and/or ask additional questions as needed.  Do not post 5 separate replies, and expect them all to be marked as answers.....contrary to belief, this does not get you 10 points per maked answer anyway...it only get you 10 points for the first answer.

  2) Don't use multiple accounts to try and pad your points and medals.

  3) Let the owner of the question select the answer, and stop begging for points.  Let your answer speak for itself, if the user likes it great, but if he doesn't move on to the next question.

  4) Don't attempt to answer questions that you don't know anything about, or repost other users advice.  Getting advice from one thead and posting it to another as the answer is not helpful...especially when you don't know anything about the topic.

  5) Don't jump in on every question you know (or think you know) the answer too.  Its sort of like walking up to another person's conversation and jumping in.  Its not polite.  Sometimes, its better to read the post and see if the people already helping are doing a good job, if so move on.  If not then, consider posting, but be polite about it and don't take over the conversation, just add to it.  Again, if you get the answer great, if not move on.

  If Mr X and MS Helper stopped all their point grubbing activities, and focused on questions they actually could answer, no one on the forum would complain, and they would be welcome.  I have seen some really good posts for both of these accounts, mostly focusing on what they know. 

  However, another problem arises when they attempt to answer questions apperantly out side their skill set and then act as if they are they authority on the subject, rather than admittting to the questioner that they are only guessing.  This type of action is detrimental to them and the forums in general.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:13 PM

   

   
  

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  Thanks for posting John,

  Could you please give me proofs for what you said?

  I don't see many posts for Mr X in the same thread. There is no reply I saw with many posts.

  Also, If someone makes his best efforts to answer questions, what can he do more?

  For Mr X, you see the following "This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.". This means that the user is trying his best to solve it. As an information, if you give a wrong answer, next time you will not give a wrong one for the same thing again. I saw many users posting wrong answers but they are here to help and to improve their skills.

  When Mr X does not have an idea about what he is solving, why he has 115 answers in 21 days (Most of them were marked by Moderators)?

  Why a user should not copy from another link when what copied may solve the problem. You have not seen MVPs writing "Please refer to <link>"? So, what is the difference? If there any regulation that states that nothing should be copied?

  Why you want to throw out solution_provider? He is trying his best and we should encourage him to continue helping until he will improve his skills and start answering by himself. Is not a better idea?

  Why you report these ones and you don't report those who are attacking peoples in this Forum?

  Have you seen how grits attacked a little boy (15 years)?

  Why you don't report that?

  We should ameliorate this forum not throw out users.

  I think that those who insult people here should get -100 points for each reply that insult in. We should respect each other and work as a team not like that.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:19 PM

   

   
  

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  You can have a look to the threads answered by this user (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/santhosh%20sivarajan-/?type=forum&referrer=http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/user/threads?userid=11efc80e-d186-4deb-8626-648d5bce2dbb)

  You will find some of them with copied replies.

  He should be reported also?

  No of course. He should not.

  I saw a MVP always using the same answer for a certain problem (upgrade from windows 2003 to windows 2008).

  He should be reported also?

  No of course.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:31 PM

   

   
  

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  You said also that MS Helper is marking his own answers like this one :

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/thread/3bc8f64f-5719-4edd-9d96-fe0046c5b345/#caea937a-4bbf-4073-9d72-09cf5d32e058

  All what MS helper said is true and all of his replies should be marked as a response. Or you think that an only one answer should be marked ?

   MS Justice,

  The post you reference here is a perfect example of what you should *NOT* do.

  1) MS Helper has done nothing more than post the same information available on Technet here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sbs-2008-2003-migration(WS.10).aspx

  2) He broke it up in an attempt to gain more points per post

  3) He broke it up in an attempt to gain more answeres on a single question (which does not work anyway).

  4) He provided no additional value to the converstation, he simply reposted information from Technet.

  5) This looks like nothing more that a "lame" question posted by a bogus account so MS Helper could answer it, reposting for Technet.

  Paraphrasing Kelly Mcgillis in TopGun, "while it was victory i believe we have shown this is a perfect example of what not to do"

  While MS Justice views this as an example of some great help, most people on the forums view this as an example of what *NOT* to do.

   

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• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:41 PM

   

   
  

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  For Mr X, you see the following "This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.". This means that the user is trying his best to solve it

  ???Really, i don't get that, its a legal disclaimer, nothing more. 

  Actually, saying Hey here's my best guess, or try this.  Infers you are guessing and don'g know the answer...but are trying to point the user in the right direction.

  Saying here do this it will solve the issue, infers you know the answer and/or have seen this problem before.

  A legal disclaimer does neither of these two things.

   

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:42 PM

   

   
  

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  All what is mentioned is the reply is true.

  If you say to me he should not do like that. Here I can be with you. But, what should be done is, as an example, to send an e-mail to this user to tell him that he should done do like that. Like that, he will know that this is not accepted.

  For information, even if many don't agree on that, there is no regulation I saw against that.

  In law, what is not forbidden is allowed.

  Also, don't see only the negative sides of the replies of MS helper. You can find threads where he tried to solve issues and he was so patient with users (until 50 reply for an only one thread). He was trying to do his best even if there was some lack of some technical skills. But, as I see, MS Helper has evoluated in his replies when you compare those ones when he started his activity with the last ones. So, as you see, users try to improve their technical skills and that is good. If a user like that spend a year trying helping people, he will not evoluate? Of course yes.

  To add, there was a long time since this user posted a reply.

  For Mr X, what are the replies that you are suspecting?

  For solution_provider, what are the replies that you are suspecting?

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:46 PM

   

   
  

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  When Mr X does not have an idea about what he is solving, why he has 115 answers in 21 days (Most of them were marked by Moderators)?

  Never said Mr X or MS Helper didn't have answers to questions, couldn't answer questions well, or they were some how inferior.  What i am saying their first priority is about gaining POINTS not helping users.

  Also, MS Helper appears to have some knowledge of a few areas, but attempts to answer question beyond his expertise.  That causes problem when he clearly lacks that skill needed to solve the problem.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:53 PM

   

   
  

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  So, we should give him a chance to improve his skills.

  For Mr X, why you are suspecting him that he want only to gain points? What are the proofs for that? There is no anormal behaviour.

  Could you please explain to me how you concluded that?

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 6:01 PM

   

   
  

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  Why a user should not copy from another link when what copied may solve the problem. You have not seen MVPs writing "Please refer to <link>"? So, what is the difference? If there any regulation that states that nothing should be copied?

  Unwritten rule, but i think this best sums it up.

  Copying information for another source, like in school, is plagerism (Plagiarism.org).  It's not your information, you did write it, you may or may not even understand it, but you are providing it like it is your own.  Also, there is a chance you may have taken it out of context, which could be a bad thing.  Ultimately, this is "wrong" but a lot of people do it.  I'm not saying it good or bad, plagerism isn't the main point. 

  The main problem and copying does for users like MS Helper has and possibly Mr X is that they don't say hey i found this, and it may be helpful, they present it as their own, and with their point grubbing they are trading on their rating (their points and medals) gained in other forums .  So it come off as, they are knowledgble about something when in fact they are not. 

  For example (just an hypothetical, not real), if MS Help does nothing but answer Windows 7 questions all day, and get 5,000 points and 3 medals, then starts going to the Exchange forums (where he know nothing) and start answering questions...playing on his forum rating for respect, that's misleading is it not?  That's essentially what COPYING answers from other posts is...its misleading user into believing you are more than you appear.

  Refering to a link is always the best option, it gives the user the chance to read the information in it entirety and making the determination for themselves.

   

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 6:08 PM

   

   
  

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  In law, what is not forbidden is allowed.

  This isn't a law school, this is a community and a society you said so yourself.  Society and communities have unwritten rules that people learn over time (as they grow up).  And many, many things that are legal are not tolerated in open societies/public.  MS Helper and Mr X appear to trappled on some of those unwritten rules.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 6:11 PM

   

   
  

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  So we should tell the user to write something like "I found that" ... You see all has a solution.

  This is not only for MS helper, Mr X or solution_provider but for all users because many users don't know how to correctely post in this forum. So, we should correct them not throwing them out.

  My personal point of view is that solution_provider and Mr X does not have any of abusive behaviours (many replies ...).

  You can check that: go to their profiles and see their threads.

  Also, I personally see that Mr X is doing a great job here.

  You can have a look to this forum and you will find that he is the second answerer so why we should throw him out.

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/threads

  We should correct him if there is something wrong and personally I don't see something wrong with him but users here never stop attacking him.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 6:33 PM

   

   
  

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  I'm more familiar with MS Helper, but Mr X is assumed to be another alias that MS Helper is using.  I'm not positive about that, only Microsoft would know via IP Addresses or other tracking.  Mr X may be an innocent victim, or may be MS Helper trying to clean up is reputation.  I have looked at Mr X's, posted and do see more good things in his replies than MS Helper's, and better information.

  If Mr X is a new user, it is unfortunate for him to join when he did.  Not sure how he could distance himself from this.  MS Helper will have a lot more difficult time trying to clear his name.

   

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 6:45 PM

   

   
  

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  Every user can made mistakes in this forum. MS Helper have not done something really horrible. Just used many replies instead of one (Like did Roy Mayo in the link I gave).

  Let's suppose that Mr X is MS helper. As you said, there is a better information and more good things. So, he evoluated and improved his technical skills. In this case what I said before is true.

  MS Helper does not have to clear his name because he did not made something horrible. You can see from the MS Helper posts that he spent lot of journeys in these forums to try to help people. So, why you only see what he did as negative and you don't see what he did as positive?

  Also, if he is Mr X then you see that there is no abusive behavior with the new profile with many of right answers (115 in just 21 days). So, it is a really great thing. Don't you think it is great?

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:19 PM

   

   
  

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  MS Justice,

  I think you clearly have an agenda here, and i am begining to think you all three of you MS Helper, MS Justice, and Mr X are the same person. 

  Again, trying to appear to be something you are not, is *NOT* the way to go about correcting your name or posting to the forums in general.  Come clean and appologize would be the first step to forgiveness in any society.  But you are clearly trying to justify your actions, and now you are trying to manipulate people into giving you a second chance (or see your side, or what ever you are attempting to convery here).  Personally, i don't find this acceptable.

  If you want a second chance or for people to stop criticizing, then stop doing those very behaviors.  Be humble, be helpful, but most of all be HONEST.

  MS Helper does not have to clear his name because he did not made something horrible.  I disagree, he does.

  Mr X stats (115 in 21 days) mean nothing, its not great.  Again, its not about the point, the answers, the medals, the stats.  Its about helping people.  If you truely understood that, this conversation would have been over with a long time ago.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:33 PM

   

   
  

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  It is true that I have got an agenda here because I saw the most of the threads posted by both users.

  When we make right answers this means we are helping peoples and that they are satisfied with this answer.

  I understand what you said and all members here should be cooperative to help peoples here.

  Don't forget this because it is an important point.

  Also there should be an efficient rate system in these forums and users which insult other members should be punished (as an example -100 points).

  Like that all should be ok.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:51 PM

   

   
  

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  Can I ask you a question?

  Just *curious* to know the answer.

  Why all your votes in the technet forums are only for Gunner999?

  As I see from your profile you did nothing other than voting for him.

   
• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:18 PM

   

   
  

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  You are clearly Marek Ahmed (aka MS Helper, MS Justice, Mr X).

  I think you are misguided in your attempts to clear your name on this forum in this manner.  You clearly want recognition, want people to see how smart you are, and you appear to be smart, but are going about it all wrong.  The more you fight what people are telling you, the more you think you know best, know better, and take the attitude that you are all knowing the worst it makes you look.

  I don't think i have personally insulted you in our entire converstation, i have held you to an "acceptability" standard that you are clearly not meeting, and I have tried to give you guidance on how to improve yourself and your image on this forum, and what i have tried to explain what you should be focusing on...yourself and your answers and your actions.

  Stop looking for other people to blame, others to deflect the attention away from you.  This isn't WAG THE DOG, you can't claim war on CANADA to divert our attention away from you and the problems are you have created.   Follow the suggestions i have made and you will be better served.  Continue fighting everyone that has any feed back that you disagree with it is not to your benefit.

  • Edited by JohnSmith123 Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:28 PM
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• Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:24 PM

   

   
  

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  I am MS justice.

  As I see, you said that users should be honest.

  Could you please tell me why you were connected since one hour and you replied now? Were you thinking?

  Why your account had no activity since 26 april and only today you continued to use it and the first reply you did since its creation is in this thread while Gunner999 is the other thread? A chance?

  You are Gunner999, this is one of your other profiles and you are voting your own answers using it.

  Is that being honest?

  You reported MS helper as abusive. What you did is not abusive?

  I think that moderators should have a look at the activity of the two accounts.

   
• Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:56 PM

   

   
  

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  "MS Helper have not done something really horrible"

  Taking credit for work that is not of your own is pretty low. Surely one can post a recommendation on advice on how to fix something & then reference the source they're using. This is the known best practice for authors as they credit work or cite sources.

  But this isn't what MS Helper or MrX have done historically. A close look reveals that instead their answer posts are virtually always either verbatim taken from Technet sources, or there are small changes in the wording in an attempt to make it look their own.

  Further, posting said work in smaller sections in an effort only to make multiple posts only to have other dummy accounts erected just days or hours prior to rate each multiple post in succession with favored ratings for sake of brownie points is even lower. Using said dummy accounts to post obviously staged questions whereby MS Helper or MrX sweep in to answer away is also a known occurrence an and a deplorable one. These arene't random acts.

  "he evoluated and improved his technical skills."

  He/she improved their point medal count, by scrupulous copying behavior no less. All he/she improved is the methods by which he/she gamed the system to garner points.

   
• Wednesday, September 22, 2010 6:07 PM

   

   
  

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  "When we make right answers this means we are helping peoples and that they are satisfied with this answer."

  One wonders if you just commited a freudian slip, by 'we' you don't happen to mean MS Helper and MrX?

  It's not helping people if they're gaming the system by creating dummy accounts to post staged questions which are then answered verbatim words from a technet article.

  How could you know if they're satisfied with the answer if the person proposing an answer marks it themslves as a proposed answer?

  e.g. If I post a quesiton and you promptly respond with an possible answer and then promptly mark it as an answer without any confirmation on my behalf or others, how does that help people again?

  "Also there should be an efficient rate system in these forums and users which insult other members should be punished (as an example -100 points)."

  I suppose, but there should also be an negative rating for those who use the tactics employed by MS Helper and MrX, as posting a possible answer and immediately marking it as an answer helps no one.

   
• Thursday, September 23, 2010 6:35 AM

   

   
  

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  We means all members in this Forum. You're right if they are gaming the system but I said "When we make right answers this means we are helping peoples and that they are satisfied with this answer." because JohnSmith123 suspected that Mr X is not helpful and he made many right responses these days (Most of them have been marked by moderators) so it is for that I said that this is a proof that he is helpful.

  If you propose an answer and the user is not back then in this case I think all is okay with the user (Many users get the answer and leave immediately the forum.

  A negative rating for MS Helper and Mr X? What are the posting you are speaking about? (Especially for Mr X) I don't see them. Give examples please.

   

   
• Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:54 PM

   

   
  

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  "We means all members in this Forum."

  Right, and most/all here can readily distinguish your actions from those of the typical user in these forums, the only overlap seems to be in the ones you're defending (MS Helper, Mrx) & historically those that have come out of no where to vote up on only MS Helpers posts to defend him. Not really a big suprise.

   Earlier some months prior the one comming to the defense of Malek and MS Helper was non other than an obvious puppet account (Mernisi Eya) who helped MS Helper attain a lowdy 6 Helpful on many numerous occasions.

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/mernisi%20eya/?type=forum&referrer=http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/87f86e8e-e6b6-403c-bf69-23a803570de6

  So, in some sense, the tactics aren't evolving at all...

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/87f86e8e-e6b6-403c-bf69-23a803570de6

  It's no suprise that those mostly skeptical, critical, and concerned with the obvious & blatant historical abuse of the forums on MS Helper's behalf in using dummy accounts are being called out by you. Where oh where is MS Helper to comment on the matter? Oh, no where to be found....but mysteriously, another user comes along, out of no where no less, to defend MS Helpers actions. Riiiight.

  "If you propose an answer and the user is not back then in this case I think all is okay with the user (Many users get the answer and leave immediately the forum."

  That doesn't matter. And it really doesn't come down to what you personally think is okay or not, as mentioned before, it's not okay, it's at the least less helpful & considered ill form in social etiquette (faux pas).

  Suppose you asked a question in a forum, and later I came by and rambled off some nonsense answer that was not correct. Then after waiting 10 minutes I marked it as a possible answer to your question, do you think that helps you? Do you think that helps others in this forum? Do you think that person marking their own wrong post as an answer should get credits for a wrong answer?

  Besides the mods here tend to wait ~ week and if there has been no confirmation from the original poster, then the most spot on answer is gnerally marked as the answer. Waiting a few hours and then marking it as the answer, as MS Helper has done, doesn't help anyone. Some Helper...

  It certainly shouldn't excuse it allowing the poster of a possible answer from marking it as a correct answer.

  "A negative rating for MS Helper and Mr X?"

  As already stated, posting smaller solutions into segments for the sole purpose of using dummy accounts, as MS Helper did, to come in later and mark each in succession as the correct answer, especially when they're taken verbatim from TechNet doesn’t help users.

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sbs-2008-2003-migration(WS.10).aspx

  Posting totally stage questions with dummy accounts also doens't help users, this was already highlighted with MrX.

  It's all in an effort to game the system and thus yes it deserves negative rating. How hard is that to comprehend?

   
• Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:02 PM

   

   
  

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  These users have abusive behaviour and moderators should have a look at their activity.

   

  grits n gravy : Is always causing troubles in this forum with many users.

  These are some examples :

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/afe961c3-ba08-4966-a2f7-092d5e66983c/#4ac20c20-4033-4bbd-ac1d-941c473cda8e

  In this one grits n gravy deleted his replies after attacking a child. He know that he had abusive behaviour and this behaviour was reported by Mr X (You will find that Naruto said Hey grits which is the proof that he caused a disaster and had let a child scared and terrified by accusing him to have a hacked version of windows 7 Enterprise Edition). Mr X calmed the child (Please have a look to the reply of Naruto http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/reportabug/thread/e4dbaca9-db31-43b3-a9ae-d17e09c7a2d3 Based on that, this user is only trying to make a bad reputation for Mr X)

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproperf/thread/a8fd541f-f47e-47cb-8c01-0b92c4073e74

  As you see here grits n gravy is trying to do another disaster but Mr X answered as a professional and gravy did not found how to respond and did not responded the most of the questions posed by Mr X (Please have a look to the questions).

   

  You looks like kids and not IT Professionals and moderators should have a look at that.

  You are just jalous of Mr X and the other users. That is it !

  Mr X have 115 answers in just 21 days. For me it is greats ! For you no because the number of your answers will be reduced.

  Please report these users, they are destroying Microsoft Forums

  Administrators please have a look at their activity

   

   

   

   

  i just signed-in with a new profile to confirm my profile grits n gravy is now banned.

   

   

  and just to straighten the record, Mr X, i pulled my posts from your psychotic monologue as a courtesy to this forum and to you in particular.  you should know a 15 year old fellow would be dreaming of shaving and a driver's license.  he would call himself a guy or maybe even a dude.  but he definitely wouldn't be calling himself a boy and whimpering help me, is he a stalker? in this forum.  that was sick beyond surreal, Mr X.

  here's the first of several posts i pulled there:

   

  the reason Ken asked that, Naruto, is because this thread reads like a staged Q&A.

  you know, like a TV commercial.

  brought to you by your sponsor, Mr X.

  in particular, how did you even know of the Enterprise edition?

  how could your source of info possibly omit such a basic description?

   

  i'm surprised the moderator didn't catch it.

   

   

  you may want to take credit in my being banned, Mr X, but i think that is also deluded.  i suspect it was in response to this post i submitted last night, which itself may be another example of psychosis on this site.  or maybe it is a perfect example of my troublemaking here.

   
• Thursday, September 23, 2010 6:04 PM

   

   
  

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  psychotic monologue

   

  Bazinga!

   
• Thursday, September 23, 2010 6:50 PM

   

   
  

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  maybe it was something i said.

   

  my kind is obviously unwelcome in this forum.  here is my final contribution.

   
• Friday, September 24, 2010 1:25 AM

   

   
  

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  Hello Grits,

  I havent really seen you much in this forum, and I am not to speed on all forum drama.  I must say that it is a shame that you were banned.  However, I think that one of the best postings I have ever come accorss was your zebra/people crossing.  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/f6fb0247-029c-42fa-ac75-bab67a64d458

  I still refer to it for a good laugh whenever I find the more obvious point/medal scammers.  It puts life into perspective. 

  Do you all really think others in the forum can't figure out who are and who are not scamming?  Please....People..Its only a forum.  I cannot beleive that some of you really think that racking up points & medals really means anything in the grand scheme of things.  The purpose of this forum is to help people and share ideas.  If you want a certificate, just print one out and hang it up on the wall.

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• Friday, September 24, 2010 1:01 PM

   

   
  

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  thanks JM.   yeah, that was funny.

   

  it was probably my reference to the locked thread, linked from this recently spammed page that set them off.

  no sense of humor.

   

  i thought it was apropos.

   
• Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:03 PM

   

   
  

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  You appear to pick fights with people over stuff that isn't worth the effort.  This is probably the root cause of you being banned.  I can only imagine what you said in the posts that were deleted....whoppers of insults i'm sure.

  Gunner

  
  
  Moderators:

  after mulling his comment over, it's clear that Gunner was referring to this locked thread which appears among my profile entries.  due to the way you moderated (censored) it, it is understandable why Gunner would think i was the trouble-maker there.

  as you know, i was initially rebutting steve2050 for reopening and trolling that long-dead thread.  i later chastised another for his inadvertently badmouthing MS development team.  you know that too.

  when i discovered how that thead was later modified, i initially thought all my posts there were deleted so that my reputation would not be soiled by that mess.  but upon review, i realize that references to my name and initials remain in such a way as to make me look especially bad.

  unfairly bad and ironically so.    i was defending MS and  correcting  those members.     do you not see it that way?   do i need to upload the entire thread to my SkyDrive so we can review it?  if you would have deleted the entire sequence from steve2050's post downward, that would have made sense.  but what you did was mendacious.  it put everything out of context.  why?

  if you then wondered why i deleted several dozen of my subsequent posts, with curt deletion-comments like "myob" and "delete trolling", that is why.  you have effectively told me to mind my own business, and made me out to be a troll.

  you have literally filtered me out of your forum.

  i mentioned it some time back.

   

   

   

  for the benefit of other readers, here is the first of my abusive posts, and the final other member's post.

  we were discussing the instructions to edit  cversion.ini  stated in this article.

   

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  you still didn't read.

  that official info you repudiated came directly from the Windows 7 Team.

   

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  Yes Grits in this one case you are right, I will give the credit you are due, you are a total idiot or maybe dunce is a better word, no if ands or buts about it.

  You have made being an idiot an art form, I take my hat off to you.
  When folks lookup idiot on wikipedia, they should see your picture or atleast be redirected to your posting here, I will see what I can do about that.

  I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

  I am having a Moment of Clarity here..My fists are bloody... time to stop.
  "Ignorance is like a stone wall. If you try to fight it, you will end up with bloody fists. Instead you must take down each stone, gently, one at a time."
  Ella Sekatau

  That is it for me here, I will leave this forum, I hope you have great time here posting nonsense and trash talking, I mean come on you make it plain you are only here stir things up, you have not made a single post with any intelligent responses, you have made it clear that you not only lack any computer skills, you also lack any common sense what so ever ( I bet you really only have MAC, as windows maybe a little out of your league).

  Really folks this is / was suppose to be forum for IT Pro's to discuss issue with windows 7, not some platform for some whining wannabe, who because they lack any real skills, feels the need to be in the spotlight, no matter how stupid they come off to others, I only guess how proud you are.

  May you live in interesting times.

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  i did not reply to Bubba's flame.    mobopie's jaded comments are true.  that thread was reopened for some twisted reason.

  pardon me for interfering with your objective, whatever it was.

   
• Thursday, September 30, 2010 8:24 AM

   

   
  

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  Moderators:

  when i discovered how that thead was later modified, i initially thought all my posts there were deleted so that my reputation would not be soiled by that mess.  but upon review, i realize that references to my name and initials remain in such a way as to make me look especially bad.

  unfairly bad and ironically so.

  why?

  
  
  Moderators:  so, you're just going to leave it that way?

   

   

  You appear to pick fights with people over stuff that isn't worth the effort.  This is probably the root cause of you being banned.  I can only imagine what you said in the posts that were deleted....whoppers of insults i'm sure.

  Gunner

  Gunner:  i came across a post today that seemed to have a double-meaning.  it probably was just coincidence.  but it reminded me of another thread with Bubba where i got censored out.  i really didn't remember it, and it didn't occur to me you'd be aware of that one.  but maybe you were?   yes, i have had some critical words with Bubba for his trademark rude ways.  in this thread, he fired off one of his typical nasty replies, which then was Proposed by a moderator, and finally marked Answer.  i protested it each step of the way.  here is the thread in a nutshell:

  
  Windows 7 to XP Pro downgrade
  
  Q:  If so, where do I get the copy of Windows XP Pro?
  
  A:  YOU must provide the XP media
  

   

  YOU must, huh?  what a BS thing to say.  the OP is nicely asking where to obtain a copy of XP.  Bubba told him to go whiz up a rope.  my replies were neither insulting nor vulgar, but they certainly escalated in volume.  you want to know exactly what i said?  submit these links and see.

  reply 1
  reply 2
  reply 3

   

  wasn't worth the effort, you say?    it's all a matter of perspective, i guess.