Thank you Skinner!

[alp227]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=157733&sub=trans



(The nail in the coffin was the "Bankers' Wars" post, with "Banker" being a code word for "Jew". You know where that goes.)

[Electric Monk]

1. gude?

[pinboy3niner]

17. If you misplace your right hand on the keyboard...

...one place to the left, you'll type 'gu' instead of 'hi'.

[OilemFirchen]

49. Please to be responding to post only.

If you wish gude discussion have your thread started.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Gude one!

[benz380]

25. Gude, where's my car?

[pinboy3niner]

29. They hided it

Five times.

[dixiegrrrrl]

56. *snort*

oh you guys........

[pintobean]

57. At least he didn't

ban his member again.

[salin]

3. I somehow missed this one

any idea who this was?

[pkdu]

6. Says right at the top of the OP

Go West Young Man

[salin]

7. I mean who was he before?

Skinner explains it was a sock of a member on "5-gude" (?) suspension.

Seems curious.

[FSogol]

8. He admitted to being Operation Mind Crime who was banned a long time ago. Not sure who

his other socks were.

[salin]

9. Thanks. I think I have seen one of his other socks

That is a musty sock (registered 2004).

[FSogol]

12. Here's the post were he outed himself

His omc and go west identities overlapped themselves too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5361288

took the admins a long time to give him the heave ho again.

[salin]

16. Wow.

That's pretty bold.

I recall that he shared a traumatic experience with the loss of his wife. But years later, after he was banned, others suggested that he had been trolling all along. Who knows. Given that his banning was well after 2004 (when Go West get's registered) I would have to guess now that it was trolling. Who knows. Thanks for the link.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Funny, he's got a very different posting style than OMC- and as near as I can tell a different

philosophical orientation, too.

OMC the DU troll was an extremely annoying, thinly veiled, badly concealed right-winger whose idea of substantive debate was to respond to people with page fulls of rolling smileys har har hurr

He was basically the DU equivalent of "get a brain morans" guy.


This guy looks like... I dunno, one of these Putin shills?

Also, "Operation Mindcrime" is a Queensryche album or something, so it could be a coincidence.

I'm not saying it's not a troll or a sock-making troll, but I doubt it's the same guy.

[salin]

60. I picked up a very different posting approach, as well.

Viewed OMC as a centrist with some right wing tendencies. Don't recall the rolling smileys (it's been a number of years since he was here), but do recall persistent repetition on literal questions (aka wording quibbles/obstinance.) The newer poster - seemed rather breathless in making his almost woo-ie points. Very different styles.

Given the span of years involved, the whole thing is rather interesting.

[Warren DeMontague]

62. I suspect they're both just fans of that particular album.

It'd be like if I called myself "Blues for Allah" or something.

[jpak]

10. OMC is an asshole

good on him

yup

[hunter]

23. Everybody has an asshole...

... but it takes extra effort to BE an asshole.

How's it going jpak?

Your call out is correct.

[H2O Man]

32. Respectfully disagree.

The sphincter actually serves a purpose. OMC was more like the empty space filled with foul smelling gas, emitted from the said sphincter.

Just my opinion ......

[Warren DeMontague]

38. I don't think it's the same guy.

Different asshole, maybe.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Texas Elvis.

I had a post hidden for pointing that inconvenient fact out.

[lpbk2713]

15. I'm LMFAO that he obsesses so fervently about DU ... BWAHAHA

Such a loser.

Always was a loser.

Always will be.

[alp227]

18. "Gude" must've been a typo, meaning "hide" (h and i are so close to g and u on keyboard) nt

[salin]

19. That makes sense.

Sort of. The 11 years ago thing sorta get's my curiosity.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Manifest Destiny

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=319657&sub=trans

Someone pointed out that "Manifest Destiny" was a fairly obvious reference to 'go west young man'.

[salin]

24. at least that is a recent sock

(from December). The Go west young man sock was created in 2004. Not sure when OperationMindControl registered (or was banned on DU2). Very industrious.

The tone is different, though. Alps links above where gwym reveals that he is OPM .

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. The point is that GWYM and MD were banned on the same day for the same reason

while GWYM was on a 5-hide suspension. And GWYM and MD also posted in the same style with the same political outlook.

OPERATIONMINDCRIME, on DU, was a very different poster - as far right as you could get away with on DU. "Operation: Mindcrime" was an album by Queensrÿche, and thus a phrase that several people may choose as a pseudonym. Given the difference in posting style and politics of the DU OMC and GWYM, I doubt they were the same person. OMC was banned on DU2 before DU3 started, so the "banned for creating a sock during a suspension" cannot refer to the OMC id. What we're looking for is a sock active after the Jan 12 suspension of GWYM - and that's Manifest Destiny.

[Warren DeMontague]

36. Yeah, you beat me to it.

I don't think this is the same dude.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

40. It's hard to imagine those 2 being the same. nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

54. Agree. OMC was born to be an asshole, but

he could spell.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

55. Yup. In between all the smilies I remember seeing correct grammar and spelling. nt

[salin]

61. I agree on the different posting style.

Your explanation makes more sense.

[HERVEPA]

28. That was I (among others)

[NuclearDem]

4. About goddamn time.

[hrmjustin]

48. .

[pintobean]

5. Member since: Sun Nov 14, 2004, 11:57 PM

Number of posts: 4,856
Number of posts, last 90 days: 193
Favorite forum: Good Reads, 66 posts in the last 90 days (34% of total posts)
Favorite group: NA
Last post: Mon Jan 12, 2015, 11:59 PM

[Bluenorthwest]

11. That's refreshing.

nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. That one was a long time coming.

[Duckhunter935]

22. glad for that

and his alter ego was stoned. Wonder what his next sock puppet will be.

[pinboy3niner]

27. I'm betting his next zombie account username will be...

White_Man's_Burden.

Hat tip to muriel_volestrangler, #21.

[GeorgeGist]

26. 5-gude riddance.

[H2O Man]

31. Recommended.

Thank you.

[hrmjustin]

33. I can not say I am suprised.

Skinner has made clear many times if you create a sock to get around your forced vaction you are done.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. I'd be ecstatic if they finally, once and for all, cleaned out ALL the socks, personally.

Because I'm not a bettin' man, but I'm pretty damn sure there are a few people who keep drawers full of them.

They think they're not obvious, but ...what's that they say?, "we see you!"

[hrmjustin]

47. Interesting thought but I doubt they will or have the desire to do it.

[Warren DeMontague]

50. eh.

Yeah, you may be right... but if that is the case it's just another thing I have trouble taking terribly seriously about this place.

"how can you dissent in the face of such overwhelming DU majority opinion* on this issue (which is at best an outlier to the general public)" etc etc

when

* overwhelming DU majority opinion =

[hrmjustin]

52. lol.

[JI7]

34. so he was banned over sock puppet but not anti semitism

[alp227]

42. After the anti semitic post, the user was flagged for review due to multiple hides in a day.

But the sockpuppets finally compelled admins to do something.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

39. Now if they could only do something about that Pretzelwarrior dickbag it'd be

an all around gude weekend.

[alp227]

41. PW was banned last year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=298088&sub=trans

And so was the other pretzelwarrior http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=126971

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

43. I meant his current incarnation. As far as I can tell. Still here. I mean the one from the

1st link you posted.

[Agschmid]

45. Yup.

[hrmjustin]

46. I agree he is back. n/t.

[NuclearDem]

53. Not the only high profile troll who's returned.

It would be really be a High Point if that one were PPR'd too.

[Agschmid]

44. They are back and have been for a bit.

It's so funny because people overall posting style never really changes...

You'd catch me based off ellipses and one word responses like "Yup" and "Nah Bro".

[Warren DeMontague]

51. I'm so fucking obvious, I'd never make it as a sock or zombie.

I was on Discussionist for about 5 seconds before I was spotted.

[pintobean]

58. Me too

but never confirm it.

[Warren DeMontague]

59. I know, you're that "Ben Ghazi" guy, right?

Or there's like several iterations of that silly name over there.. Ben Ghazarra, Been Ghazin' etc etc etc

Right wingers... Sooo clever

[Hekate]

63. Yes, thank you.