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If the belief in god were natural, there would be no need to teach it. Children would possess it as well as adults, the layman as the priest, the heathean as much as the missionary. We don't have to teach the general elements of human nature; — the five senses, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling. They are universal; so would religion be were it natural, but it is not. On the contrary, it is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are Atheists, and were religion not inculcated into their minds they would remain so. Even as it is, they are great sceptics, until made sensible of the potent weapon by which religion has ever been propagated, namely, fear - - fear of the lash of public opinion here, and of jealous, vindictive God hereafter. No; there is no religion in human nature, nor human nature in religion. It is purely artificial, the result of education, while Atheism is natural, and, were the human mind not perverted and bewildered by the mysteries and follies of superstition, would be universal.
Ernestine L. Rose, "A Defence of Atheism" (1878, Women Without Superstition ed. Annie Laurie Gaylor, Madison, WI: FFRF, 1997), p. 82.
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Pharyngula has a spam filter to keep out undesirables, and I do use it to block some of the more tedious or nasty denizens of the internet. In the interest of being completely transparent about it, I'm listing here the current residents of the Pharyngula filter file, other than the long list of spambots. For another example of this sort of action, I'll refer you to the infamous Tim Skirvin's Killfile Dungeon, an old institution on usenet, in which Skirvin announced the list of usenet commenters he had as entries in his personal killfile, which meant he wouldn't be reading them.
My killfile is more powerful. Being entered here means your comments won't make it to the pages of Pharyngula, and no one will see them. Just to be fair, though, if such people have a web page or blog of their own, I'll note it here. You can go elsewhere to read their foolishness, but you won't find it on Pharyngula.
By the way, if you want your own personal killfile for your browser, try Daniel Martin's killfile script for Firefox.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
What gets people put into the Pharyngula killfile dungeon? This is a list of annoyances; it usually takes more than one incident to get thrown in the slammer, though. The people who've been incarcerated are typically persistent and have a known history of pulling these stunts over and over again.
| Concern trolling | A particularly annoying form of trolling in which someone falsely pretends to be offering advice to favor a position they do not endorse; a creationist who masquerades as someone concerned about the arguments for evolution as an excuse to make criticisms. |
| Godbotting | Making an argument based only on the premise that your holy book is sufficient authority; citing lots of bible verses as if they were persuasive. |
| Insipidity | A great crime. Being tedious, repetitive, and completely boring; putting the blogger to sleep by going on and on about the same thing all the time. |
| Morphing | Changing pseudonyms to avoid killfiles. |
| Slagging | Making only disparaging comments about a group; while some of this is understandable, if your only contribution is consistently "X is bad", even in threads that aren't about X, then you're simply slagging, not discussing. |
| Sockpuppetry | Like morphing, but with a specific intent: creating multiple identities supporting a position to create a false impression of popularity |
| Spamming | Using the comments to sell real estate, mortgage assessments, little blue pills, porn, or Russian mail-order brides. Spammers are not tolerated at all; they are expunged without comment. |
| Stupidity | Some people will just stun you with the outrageous foolishness of their comments; those who seem to say nothing but stupid things get the axe. |
| Trolling | Making comments intended only to disrupt a thread and incite flames and confusion. |
| Wanking | Making self-congratulary comments intended only to give an impression of your importance or intelligence. |
Just for clarification: being a Christian or a Republican is not grounds for being banned, nor is disagreeing with your host. Try it, you can call me all kinds of names while praising Jesus and GW Bush, and I won't care…unless you turn it into a crusade and disrupt threads with constant iterations, of if you bore me by saying nothing else but jingo.
Index of the Banned
These are the people who have earned a place in the blog's filter settings. They are not allowed to post here any more, although some also have a predilection for morphing and sneak in now and then.
| Miscreant | Crime | Comments |
| Larry Fafarman AKA Larry Farma, many others | Stupidity, Morphing | This fellow is probably mentally ill, but he's able to maintain a blog that is a bottomless pit of stupidity. Also banned at the Panda's Thumb. |
| Jason AKA Jinxmchue, Jinx | Slagging, Stupidity, Trolling | A Christian creationist who is a bit obsessed; has an anti-PZ blog, which is no crime here, but is indicative of his mentality. |
| Robert O'Brien | Stupidity, Stupidity, Stupidity, Stupidity, Trolling, Wanking | This fellow has an awesome reputation all over the web as one of the dumbest commenters ever. I concur. Has a stupid blog, too. Banned at numerous sites. Mocked everywhere. |
| John A. Davison | Stupidity, Wanking, Insipidity | A Legend. Has set up multiple blogs; each one consists of one post, inviting comments. Most of the comments are from himself. When he feels like that blog is "full", starts another one. Here are some links, and a perfect parody of his style. |
| VMartin AKA Huslista, jenik, janko, anodano, Pjetiir, DobzhanskyisInvalidFly, Pjeter, pjotr, FRANK2, SKAS, skuska, deletedtext, John's friend, ForbiddenTruth, anti-darwinians, Peppered-antimoth, CharlatanDarwin, Anti-darwin, skusto, zakazaneovocie, and others | Stupidity, Insipidity, extreme Morphing | A John A. Davison sycophant. Tried reposting Davison screeds after they were deleted; basically talks about nothing but Davison, bringing up his name in irrelevant threads. They belong in the dungeon together, sharing a cell. VMartin has lately increased his activity, morphing at a frantic pace to try and get past the filters—he's exceeded Charlie Wagner's efforts, hard as that may be to believe. He has also done something particularly contemptible: using other people's username and email address to try and sneak past the filters. Saddest, most pathetic part of it all: he's still only doing it to write sycophantic praise of John A. Davison. I think he needs to get a real room with his idol. |
| Hoody AKA DemolitionMan | Slagging, Insipidity | Tiresome one-liner troll who regularly buzzed in with stupid short whines. Has his own blog, if you like that sort of thing. |
| Drew A. Hempel AKA Dru | Insipidity, Morphing, Wanking | Space cadet from the U of Minnesota. Tends to make long-winded New Agey rants that everyone ignores; gets angry that we do not pay attention to him. May slip through now and then since he does like to change pseudonyms. |
| Charlie Wagner AKA Little Blond Girl, Militant Agnostic, many others | Wanking, Morphing, Stupidity, Insipidity, Spamming | Weird anti-evolutionist with delusions of intelligence. Commonly popped up in response to any science post to claim that it showed evolution was wrong. I put up with him for many years; when he rejected my request to make only constructive comments in a particular thread, he defied me and posted the same insult repeatedly, and then insisted it was his privilege, went on a morphing spree, and threatened to spam the site every time my back was turned. Complete ass. |
| The Kansas Troll(s) AKA too many pseudonyms to list | Slagging, Stupidity, Morphing | Frantic morpher(s); I don't know how many there are, and there could be just one guy. Anti-evolutionist fanatic(s) spawned out of the creationist chaos in Kansas; cut their/his/her/its teeth on the KFCS forums but have since moved on to plague many science blogs with fly-by one-liners cussing out science, evolution, atheism, etc. |
| Susan Williams | Godbotting, Insipidity | Fueled the longest comment thread on the old site with repetitive apologetics and bible verses. When she found her way here a while back and promised to do the same thing, I threw her out. |
| J.J. Ramsey | Slagging | Wouldn't normally have been subject to banning, but chose to insult my daughter here, several times, after being warned. If you must insult my family, do it to their faces so they can kick your ass; it's cowardly to try and do it in front of me. |
| Yamil Luciano AKA A Good Christian Man, Weapon of Mass Instruction | Slagging, Godbotting, Stupidity, Morphing | An appalling far right-wing Christian bigot who repeatedly declared that the students at my university (all secular universities, actually) were STD-infected whores, among other pleasantries. Another obsessive; has a blog at pharyngulatopics.blogspot.com. |
| Swiftee | Slagging, Stupidity, Insipidity | Illiterate thug. Has a blog at Pair 'o Dice (yes, that's how he spells it). |
| Alexander Vargas | Slagging, Insipidity | He's been banned before, but like Charlie Wagner , believes it is his right to post on Pharyngula. Can be sensible, but prone to obsessive fits where he can't do anything but constantly slag people for being "Dawkinsites" or "Dawkobots". |
| cmf AKA skinfixxix, newKosfan, and austingrrrrl | Stupidity, morphing, sockpuppetry | Rambling nutcase and misogynist. Exhibited his incoherence and obnoxiousness on a thread, got disemvoweled, and then invented a few transparent pseudonyms to try and continue; "austingrrrl" even tried to claim that cmf had "sent" her to the thread. It's funny how even all of his female friends sound like woman-hating schizophrenic dorks. |
| Scotty AKA davescot (not the real thing), many other aliases | Stupidity, morphing, slagging, insipidity | Weird troll who showed up and posted nothing but links to soft-core images of women with large breasts, and obsessed over having sex with celebrities. Thrown into the dungeon because he's too pathetic to have out in public. |
| Mr G | Insipidity, trolling, wanking | Tiresome pseudo-intellectual who popped into a thread about the mind-body problem and started insisting…what? Nobody knows. He was darned sure his opinion was superior to everyone else's, but we couldn't get him to explain what his position was. Maybe a few years in the dungeon will give him time to organize his thoughts. |
| philos | Being a demented fuckwit and world-class asshole | In an unbelievable act of crass, vile smugness, this petty twerp rushed to my site after the fatal 35W bridge collapse to sneer at atheists. "Contemptible" isn't a strong enough word for vermin like this, who use tragedy to push their lies on the bereaved. His kind are what make me despise religion. |
| Caledonian | Insipidity, trolling, wanking, slagging | Years of smugly tedious comments from this obsessive passive-agressive whiner are enough. The guy puts up 25-30 comments a day, all calculated to annoy and fuel long drawn-out threads where he offers nothing but snideness — he's nothing but a bitter noise-maker who poisons discussions. |
| island | Insipidity, stupidity | Boring crank. |
| ForTheKids, FtK | overwhelming creepiness | I put up with this slimeball for a long time, since she rarely commented on Pharyngula; her wretched insinuations against my daughter, though, were too much. I think her pseudonym of "For the Kids" means she likes to prey on younger people with her lies and innuendo. |
| Jamie | Trolling, slagging, insipidity, stupidity | Strange little ranter who exhibited petty temper tantrums over poetry, of all things, which he thinks no true scientist should enjoy. Self-confessed troll; claimed to be leaving, but of course he couldn't stay away, so I'm helping by throwing him in the dungeon for a time-out. Yeah, he seems to about 12 years old, and spoiled. |
| William Wallace | Insipidity, stupidity | Extremely tiresome whiner. Insisted on telling me over and over again about the actual events that transpired at the screening of Expelled, never mind that I was there and he was not. Also banned at the Panda's Thumb. |
| dsmvld | Insipidity, stupidity, slagging, trolling | Obsessive loser; typical comment would be a sneering one-liner, and he would never discuss anything of any substance. The pseudonym is a dead giveaway that we're dealing with a troll. |
| Joe Blow | Insipidity, stupidity, slagging | Another brainless one-note. Never contributed to the discussions, just showed up to make sneering remarks … thrown in the dungeon for excruciating tiresomeness. |
| PlanetKiller, AKA "James", "Bob" | Insipidity, stupidity, slagging, morphing | Creationist with a chip on his shoulder. Final straw: showing up on my blog to tell me to leave. That's just too stupid to bear. |
| Hugh Slaman | Stupidity | Persistent world-class stupidity. An astonishingly obtuse dimbulb — he had to go. We do have standards on Pharyngula. |
| David Mabus | INSANITY | Deeply deranged, disturbed individual who believes James Randi has cheated him out of a million dollars, and who vents by spamming websites and email with his angry tirades. Certifiable. Needs immediate mental health care. His real name is Dennis Markuze, and he lives in Montreal, Canada. |
| Some Dude | Slagging, insipidity | Yet another angry kook. Blew in one day and started accusing everyone of a liberal bent of being PZ Myers' sockpuppet (it's not clear that he even understands what "sockpuppet" means). Sounded an awful lot like Joe Blow, and had to be incarcerated for the same reasons. |
| Kenny | Godbotting, insipidity | What can one say about dear Kenny? Persistent. Awesomely stupid. Tedious. Annoying. He posted 273 comments, and he never learned a thing. |
| Shas, Scrote | Sockpuppetry, insipidity | This is one of those hypocritical trolls: they come on, they whine in a superior manner about how everyone here is wasting their time, and then they keep whining the same thing over and over again under multiple aliases. I've done Scrote a favor by preventing his continued waste of time. |
| Jack | Godbotting | Spamming godbot who would just copy and paste bible verses into comments. |
| Ostiarius | Slagging | Nasty little coward who waited until I was out of town to start spewing misogynistic insults at everyone. Petty little bugger. |
| Sinbad | Insipidity, trolling | Annoying git with a long history of tedious trolling; rarely substantive, routinely and persistently obnoxious, mindless defender of christianity. |
| John Best | Stupidity, slagging | Obsessed anti-vaxer with a foul-mouthed misogynistic/anti-gay streak. Locked up with no regrets. Key has been melted down and thrown away. |
| Stan, and various permutations of that name | Insipidity, slagging, morphing | Weird little drive-by troll who goes into posting fits. Never says anything of substance, just insists that change is preprogrammed into genomes, and natural selection doesn't work, and babbles, babbles, babbles. I'm giving him a special cell, with padding and straps. |
| Fester | Slagging, general vileness | Racist slimebag. |
| KC | Slagging, general vileness | Freakishly short-tempered misogynist and homophobe. |
| Pharynguphat, among other aliases | Slagging, morphing, insipidity | Tedious drive-by troll who uses other people's names to avoid killfiles, and to simply be obnoxious. |
| killedthesavages | Trolling, stupidity | Nazi. |
| hahajohnnyb | Too vile to be tolerated | Racist hatemonger; a member of Stormfront. No, we do not put up with that nonsense. |
| Robert Byers | Too stupid to be tolerated | Single-handedly bringing great shame to the good name of Canada. Incoherent, bigoted, insanely inane. |
| The Observer | Insipidity, acute racism | Yet another pompous pseudo-scientific racist. |
| Jim in Vermont, AKA Garfunkel, AKA JohnDoe, AKA Superman, AKA Jackie | Insipidity, morphing | A nuisance who used several aliases to post shrill tirades. |
| ZR | Insipidity, slagging | One of those vapid drive-by whiners. |
| pwl | Insipidity | Self-righteous, insistent, repetitive, BORING. |
| Global Warming is a Scam | Insipidity | He could have just posted his pseudonym once. He had nothing to add beyond that, ever. |
| Barb | Insipidity, Stupidity, Godbotting | Loser of the Survivor: Pharyngula! competition |
| Simon | Stupidity, Slagging | Loser of the Survivor: Pharyngula! competition |
| John Kwok | Insipidity, Stupidity | Loser of the Survivor: Pharyngula! competition |
| John Doe, JQisAwesom | Concern trolling, Insipidity, Stupidity, Morphing | Pathetic anti-atheist troll, who admitted to trolling on his own site. |
| derender | God-botting, Insipidity, Stupidity | Guess what? We really don't care what Jesus might have said here. |
| Chuck Windom, CW | Slagging, Insipidity, Stupidity, Morphing | Liked to make up words and assign them to people, then pretend to rebut them by criticizing his caricature. Major moron. |
| Pete Rooke | Insipidity, Stupidity | Perennial dullard, with an occasional penchant for truly disturbing analogies. Too stupid to take a hint to bugger off while I was in a cranky mood from cleaning up spam, and instead chose to feed the troll. |
| Facilis, FP, DembskiFanGirl | Insipidity, Stupidity, Morphing, Sockpuppetry | A truly stupid pest who finally crossed the line by posting as "DembskiFanGirl", a flaming creationist who was pushing the same positions as Facilis, which he then claimed was "satire". I should ban him for just being too dense to know what satire is. |
| Alan Clarke | Insipidity, Godbotting, Creepiness | A persistent and bizarrely ignorant creationist who fanned some of the longest running threads ever; all he had as evidence for his claims was the Bible, which is stupid enough, but what finally crossed the line was his decision to evade discussion of the science by reminiscing about his fondness for prepubescent girls. Creationists should thank me, since most wouldn't want this horrible little man representing them, anyway. |
| Jaygo, DR K | Godbotting | ALL CAPS BIBLE VERSES. Enough said. |
| Pez | Stupidity | We have a glitch where comment submission returns an error. The error message says, "Do not repost your comment", because it has been posted anyway. Pez did not read the error message. 15 times. |
| African Genesis | Insipidity | Pompous Libertarian fuckwit whose tedious drone finally compelled me to rid my blog of the nuisance. |
| karol | Slagging, stupidity | Raving homophobe who blew in shrieking all kinds of misinformation about "faggots". |
| Silver Fox | Insipidity | Finally bored me into exasperation. Gone. No loss. |
| Robert, Rob, Guardian of the Poll, Southern Pride, Sabretooth Tiger, Guradian of the Polls, Captain Right, Normal Person, Vlad the Impaler, Personal Defender of Vincent Fleury, Concerned Conservative, etc., etc., etc. | Morphing, Slagging, Insipidity | If you've noticed the multiple sneering stupid people who've been popping up intermittently over the last month or two to "defend" conservative values, it's probably been this one guy. |
| Pastor Tom Estes | Godbotting, Insipidity | Mildly retarded doofus on a mission from God. |
| Shaun | Godbotting, Insipidity, Slagging, Morphing | Persistent and not very bright troll; acolyte of Pasator Tom Estes. Chose to announce that Ted Kennedy was roasting in hell because he wasn't the same kind of Christian he is…a truly charming wanker. |
| Randy Stimpson | Insipidity, Spamming | Tiresome intelligent design advocate who repeatedly spammed some half-assed simulation he wrote that he claimed would show evolution can't work; really crossed the line when he lied in a comment and told other readers to visit his site because I was writing a rebuttal to his claims. |
| help ma boab | Insipidity | From the stupid pseudonym to the tiresomely pretentious content of his comments, this wanker was too stupid to bear. |
| Ga briel, James | Insipidity, Godbotting | Raging bigot whose previous appearance as "James" consisted entirely of Christian platitudes and damning everyone to hell — and as "Ga briel" spouted racist slime about Jews, blacks, and gypsies. |
| Bilbo | Insipidity | Standard tedious troll. Threw out insults, and claimed that replying to them would be proof of their validity. Don't you wish brain-damaged twits would learn to masturbate in private? |
| Piltdown Man | Insipidity | Utterly obtuse toad who just kept coming back with weasely arguments for Catholicism, without ever addressing anyone's arguments with substance. |
| David Mathews | Obsessive insipidity, Slagging | On 24 November 2009, David Mathews graced this blog for a mere 12 hours, during which he left 255 sneering, whining, pretentious comments. It was a tour de farce. How could I not reward him with a cell of his very own in the dungeon? |
| Lion (IRC) | Insipidity, Godbotting | The stupid comments would have been tolerable (at least, ignorable) if they hadn't been accompanied by such undeserved self-pride in his attempts at wit, and such unwarranted and affected pretension. In other words, dumb as a turd and completely oblivious to it. |
| The Butcheress of Abu Ghraib, Spider Al, lockhead, millinniummany3k, Anonymous, Stalking Horse, dorkmanscott, Dragon | Sockpuppetry | Also used other users names in his games. All comments by this loser have been deleted. |
| C00nta_K1nte | Slagging | Racist slime. |
| avsn | Sockpuppetry, insipidity | Wanna know how to piss me off? Right after I warn you to knock off the stupidity before I ban you, you run out and get two or three other accounts so you can post under a battery of names. Expect this cretin to start morphing like mad now. |
| Professor Dendy | Slagging, insipidity, godbotting | Freakishly obsessed homophobe and creationist. He was ramping up the frequency and vitriol of his inane comments, so for his own good, I'm stapling him to a dungeon wall. |
| Michael | Insipidity, godbotting | Beginning a screed with the introduction, "since most of the ardent promoters of Darwinist naturalism are Jews, who have a hidden agenda of defeating Christianity and allowing Judaism to reign supreme, i attach this ancient debate between one of the first Popes and a committee of rabbis in ancient Rome. judge for yourselves who has more eloquence", and then following it up with a 6400 word copy and paste from Butler's Lives of the Saints"…yeah, that'll get you banned. |
| Graeme Bird | Slagging, insipidity | Paranoid homophobic bigoted denialist. Given a chance to make his case, he just went bugshit. |
| 1...1...2...3...9ish...lots...more | Insipidity | Weirdly incoherent babbler who infested this thread. I have no idea what his point was. |
| JohnHamilton, JackSpratt | Insipidity | Godawful tedious plodder who made assertions he couldn't back up, repeated himself endlessly, and couldn't even state his own position. Nothing but a creationist shit-stirrer. |
| Tronzu | Slagging | Repeatedly insisting that all Muslims are vermin who must be exterminated makes you one of those people I don't want to be associated with. |
| FortKnox | Insipidity, Spamming | Not just a racist scumbag, but an obnoxious ass who would put his stupid comments in 24 point red type and demand attention, over and over. |
| Hyperon, Greenberg, Mr Crystal | Insipidity, slagging, morphing | After many months of bigotry of various kinds that I tolerated, Hyperon came to the conclusion that only women get a free pass to say what they like. Out of pity, I decided to make him right for once, and canned his manly butt. He seems to have reappeared in 2011 as Greenberg. Canned again. |
| Wader | Intolerable sliminess | Rape apologist. Thought criminal sentences for 10 minutes of sex were unjust; women just make up accusations to harm men. |
| Dreadnought | Insipidity | Obsessive nerd-rager who went on a prolonged tirade about books vs e-books. Just couldn't let it go even after he was warned. |
| Michael Korn | Slagging | Lun-a-tic |
| Becky Transsexual | Insipidity, stupidity | Obsessed and touchy; imagined slight against transvestites triggered an eruption of nazi accusations. Desperately needs help from a mental health professional. |
| Pakistan | Insipidity | Obsessive nitpicker over language. Very tiresome and disruptive. I bet that name is a pseudonym, too. |
| Darwin's Nemesis, Atheistoclast | Stupidity | Pretentious. Convinced he was going to overthrow all of evolution, and has submitted his revolutionary papers to a long list of journals, none of which published his work. Would love to see his rejection letters. . |
| Randomly Selected Individual | Insipidity, slagging | Cranky git. Charged in with petty one-liners, accusations of "PMSing" and "bitchiness" against other female commenters, and ignored explicit warnings. Looked like 'roid rage to me. |
| dxv515 | Insipidity, slagging | Homophobic shrieky ranty pissant. Made the usual stupid defense of Catholic pedophiles, that because they rape little boys, their problem is homosexuality. Doesn't seem to understand the boundaries between "consenting adults" and "abusing children", so we don't want his kind around here. Also, insanely Catholic. |
| GayHedBri | Godbotting | Increasingly shrill, stupid, hateful nutbar who finally collapsed into posting prayers. There's no point in letting him continue to sob on the blog at that point. |
| Buster | Godbotting | Mindless drivel. |
| Auxilijandro | Trolling | Confessed to trolling. Treated appropriately. |
| VenomFangX, Nikita | Sockpuppetry, Stupidity | VenomFangX announced his departure. Seven minutes later, Nikita made his first comment. Same IP. Same stupid arguments. |
| chunkdz | Stupidity | Denialist kook. One of the surest kooksigns, though, is when they flouncily announce their departure, and then come back anyway. |
| twiztid_blunt | Stupidity, slagging | Juggalo. Enough said. |
| gr8hands | Insipidity, trolling | Resurrecting a 6 month old thread that you derailed to claim victory, after everyone had left it? That's a combination of inanity and ego we can do without, thank you very much. |
| SlantedScience | Insipidity, slagging | Perpetual ass who posted lots of empty content to this thread, which makes me very cranky. Simply posting references to other comments repeatedly is the very definition of insipidity. |
| 1prophetspeaks | Godbotting | Crank who showed up to post 10,000 word ravings. I'm going to have to open a mental ward in the dungeon, apparently. |
| Remember_the_nakba | Trolling, stupidity, slagging | Noisy little misogynistic freak with a penchant for psychoanalyzing me. Only showed up to frantically troll this thread and this one. |
| Al B. Quirky | Stupidity | You know how those annoying buzzing insects can keep you up all night, when you just lie there and can't get up the energy to go swat the nuisance? That's Quirky, from his too precious pseudonym to his incessant, whiny, substance-free comments. He was a nuisance I finally got around to swatting. |
| Elzoog | Insipidity | Libertarian. Obtuse, repetitive, stupid, dumb as a brick, devout faithhead in the magic powers of the invisible hand of the market, which always picks the just and the good. But I already said he was a libertarian, didn't I? |
| https://me.yahoo.com/a/. ESzU4YkvpCaGVcc_gE_bwoO_nHc #3d697 | Insipidity, slagging, trolling | The first yahoomess to be dungeonified. Raving nutcase who steadily increased the noise in this thread. |
| antitheist999, still1 | Insipidity, slagging | Pathetic drive-by misogynist. |
| Monkey Genes | Insipidity, slagging | Annoying sexist knee-jerk pest who thought he was the only "intelligent" commenter on the blog…while ranting and snarling like a 'roid-raged swine. |
| Franklin Percival | Douchebaggery and attempted intimidation | Casually taunting a pseudonymous commenter with her real name? Not cool. Pretty contemptible, actually. Creepy stalkerish behavior will get you a cell on the dungeon equivalent of death row. |
| Ternon | Insipidity, stupidity | Yet another tedious misogynist. Ignored warnings to continue whining about all those women ruining men's lives by falsely accusing them of rape. |
| jao | Slagging, stupidity | Misogynist and furiously angry generator of illiterate, ungrammatical word salad who also tried to lecture everyone else on the rules of English grammar. |
| Antagonizer | Trolling, stupidity | His disruptive goals were obvious from his pseudonym. Disregarding warnings and promising to morph to avoid banning, though, was the final straw…I expect he's another Piltdown Man. |
| Thaddeus G. Blanchette | Slagging, stupidity, douchebaggery | There's just something wrong with that boy. Went on a stupid tear here, and all he got for it was a ban and contempt of the readers. |
| Gabriel Blanco | Godbotting, stupidity | Wretched Christian scum. |
| Laughingmn | Stupidity, slagging | Unoriginal drive-by bore. |
| skeptical atheist | Godbotting | Truth in advertising would have required this one to adopt the 'nym of "bliss ninny." |
| Ray Greek | Stupidity | In a thread about the terrorist tactics of the animal rights movement, this clueless ninny decides to out the identity of another commenter. Well, clueless is charitable—since he is an apologist for the loons, it might have been malicious and intentional. |
| Snickersnack | Stupidity | Wrapped himself in the flag in this thread, declared that we ought to assassinate Hitler, and anyone who disagreed with him was a Nazi-lover. His sanctimony seems to have gotten in the way of reality. |
| Matt | Slimy douchebaggery | This repulsive bozo rushed to the defense of William Lane Craig by posting racist and homophobic comments, and then by leaving tinyurl links to malware sites. Don't you just love Christians? |
| JD | Stupidity, slagging | Blithering misogynist who seemed to think atheists invented nukes so they could engage in wanton slaughter, among many idiocies. |
| sticktheflounce | Stupidity, slagging | Creationist nitwit yap-yap-yapping away with no substance to add. I let him babble for 3 months before giving up on him. |
| Solomon | Stupidity, slagging. godbotting, oblivious wankery | Whaaa…ka…ka…ka! Enough said. |
| consulscipio236 | Stupidity, slagging. godbotting, trolling | Pompous and ahistorical ass. |
| BO_Bill | Stupidity3 | It was a mercy dungeoning. This guy was just too stupid to be allowed to wander around free anymore. |
| Dingbat | Stupidity, slagging, trolling3 | One of those obsessive twits who just couldn't stop whining, and complained that he hated it here. So I let him leave. |
| Frankosaurus | Stupidity | You would think that when I warn someone to stay out of a thread and cool off elsewhere under threat of banning, they'd have the self-control to find something better to do with their time for a day. Frankosaurus couldn't hold off for 20 minutes. |
| Arkham | Stupidity | Like Frankosaurus, Arkham was rehashing some old gripe and was warned off. Like Frankosaurus, he couldn't even contain himself for an hour. |
| downtown dave | Godbotting, spamming, stupidity | Pathetic little creature who just whined pathetic little pieties at us and spammed his pathetic little website. |
| eident9 | Stupidity | Demented obsessed lunatic who showed up on a year old thread demanding an apology. No. |
| Segmentum | Stupidity, trolling, slagging | Long-term droning bore. |
| Fundip | Slagging, stupidity | Misogynistic scumbag. |
| Cinnamonbite | Slagging, stupidity | Another snide MRA, down in flames. |
| Beriaal | Slagging, stupidity | Another one! That's three smoked out in one day. |
| nefarioususurper | Slagging, trolling | One of those precious little people who just has to be persistently and obsessively contrary for the attention. Hint for other trolls: don't send me gloating emails bragging about how you've got everyone wound up. It's a dead giveaway. |
| miscmanismiscing | Slagging | This may be a record: he made a grand total of two posts and got banned. Of course, both of those comments that he had to make consisted entirely of calling women ugly, which implies that he is a man of such resplendent, awesome beauty that I was compelled to send him away, for fear that his presence would shatter my self-esteem. |
| fée carabosse | Slagging, godbotting | Just nuts. |
| Hieronymus The Troll Braintree | Stupidity | Months and months of awesomely inane comments finally drove me to purge this doofus. |
| Nunbeliever | Stupidity, trolling | Trolling is pointless; openly admitting that you're only here to disrupt conversations is stupid. |
| GeneralE | Spamming, trolling, stupidity, slagging | Yeesh. One stupid message wasn't enough for him; he had to post the same thing a dozen times in multiple threads. |
| Kristoff | Stupidity, slagging | We just can't have riff-raff who hate vulvas hanging around here. |
| https://me.yahoo.com/a/ 0BgGNTpksuElPk7R_ XJkZKU5aqKtaOKY9w --#3b2e0 | Stupidity, slagging | A man. I hate men so much I had to ban him. Also, he was probably a rapist. |
| Curlew | Stupidity, slagging, trolling | Racist. |
| Rystefn | Stupidity, slagging | MRA: Men's Rights Asshole. Brace yourself, more may be joining the dungeon soon. |
| SirChimpsalot | Slagging | Racist slime. |
| selachee | Stupidity | One of those. You know, the insipid flamers who adopt a thread and just squat there babbling nonstop evasive nonsense. |
| Shiloh | Stupidity | Tiresome, droning creationist. |
| Zaki Aminu | Stupidity, slagging | Ranty homophobic asshole. |
