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Pensive banned on his hugboxes (HN, Quora); goes BALLISTIC

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Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
explain what's going on in this thread
zippy erotic locale lettuce
  09/13/15
He writes about himself constantly and finally got banned.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Like JJC, his dedication to flame spans sites and decades.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Let me mention one thing about “sock puppeting”. I don’t do ...
geriatric indirect expression milk
  09/13/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
LOL as if these aren't all Pensive.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
lmaooooo
useless laughsome voyeur
  09/13/15
this is one of the strangest threads
zippy erotic locale lettuce
  09/13/15
Venture capitalist here, and a huge fan of Michael O. Church...
beta box office internal respiration
  09/13/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
I believe that a third of those responses are legit. That on...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
hi pensive
beta box office internal respiration
  09/13/15
Who asked all those questions about him? He's a nobody in th...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
He's a nobody but he's an extremely talented nobody and he a...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
You wrote 3 10000 word blog posts and 100s of tweets about g...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Seek help
Comical misunderstood church main people
  09/14/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/14/15
We've banned this account. Calling Marissa Mayer a cunt is a...
territorial brass macaca fat ankles
  09/13/15
"Using an archaic spelling doesn't change that, it just...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
ahahahaha OUT the spelling
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  09/13/15
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Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Rofl
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Bat-shit-crazy Casino Pisswyrm
  09/13/15
amazing that they would ban him, a top contributor, for this...
Idiotic Silver Stain
  09/13/15
Why? High volume doesn't mean high quality. He sock puppeted...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
(Not pensive.) He actually has a pretty solid fan following ...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
He is clearly severely bipolar right now. Rambling conspirac...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Paul Buchheit knows exactly who he is and is a friend of Mar...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
No, you have no chance at winning a lawsuit for a fucking we...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
For misrepresenting the conversation, not the ban. Reporters...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
What did they write that misrepresented your actions? You we...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Autoadmit poasters subpoenaed as character witnesses regardi...
sooty pit
  09/14/15
Not Pensive, but HN is becoming shit. People like Pensive ma...
chocolate crackhouse
  09/13/15
True he was probably banned for being a one-note negative ag...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
He claims that he was banned for a blog post in 2013: https:...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
Bro have you seen the number of "[Pensive]" Quora ...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
I have. Like I said, I don't think that he's behind most of ...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
So then you're sock puppeting and crapping up the site with ...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
HN is the same stuff over and over, but that's the nature of...
frozen really tough guy
  09/13/15
Yes, unlike xoxohth.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
"And I'm not sure I could respect a man who hasn't call...
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  09/13/15
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Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
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  09/13/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfY3kMnG4E YOU BANNED MY...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
"Hacker News is a piece-of-crap slow forum, full of fan...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
Unsurprising, since you wrote it.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Chaucer's Cunt
hairraiser lodge halford
  09/13/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
LJL: The word “queynte” may be related to “cunt” and it m...
geriatric indirect expression milk
  09/13/15
jinx! Also: https://www.google.com/search?q=Queynte
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
I got bored after a few paragraphs. Is Y-Combinator going t...
Topaz talking whorehouse turdskin
  09/13/15
No but I feel legit bad for him. He thinks VCs are like supe...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
They see him more as an annoyance than a threat, but most pe...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
You don't think they had a legit reason for banning him on Q...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
I don't believe that he has all those sock puppets. He has 7...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
Pensive, you are literally sock puppeting right this minute....
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
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Disturbing Home
  09/13/15
how do you know so much about pensive. seems like only pensi...
Idiotic Silver Stain
  09/14/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/14/15
Are you flame or literally the moast insufferable person on ...
Comical misunderstood church main people
  09/14/15
...
chocolate crackhouse
  09/13/15
old news. where have you been
Idiotic Silver Stain
  09/13/15
...
chocolate crackhouse
  09/13/15
(xo 2015
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  09/13/15
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chocolate crackhouse
  09/13/15
i feel kind of bad in a way. back in the day, pensive would ...
Sienna exciting garrison
  09/13/15
:( Yeah now I feel bad for laughing at him. He seems like...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
he's never been totally connected to reality of capable of b...
Sienna exciting garrison
  09/13/15
No job never stay workin, mad purty Shorty they call her th...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
he appears to have used a string of sock puppets to ask ques...
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  09/13/15
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Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
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razzle-dazzle navy mother
  09/13/15
no different than what he did here for years. all these vari...
Sienna exciting garrison
  09/13/15
he's frustrated for ways to express himself and define his p...
razzle-dazzle navy mother
  09/13/15
*9yo Pensive flipping Monopoly board over STORMING upstairs ...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
his blog is very popular. I routinely see it on HN front pag...
frozen really tough guy
  09/13/15
Hi, Pensive!
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
He's the voice of the incipient disgruntled tech labor under...
Angry Slippery Mad Cow Disease Ticket Booth
  09/13/15
shit, you made me feel bad for rolling.
useless laughsome voyeur
  09/13/15
does this mean he'll start posting here again?
razzle-dazzle navy mother
  09/13/15
OFS.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
U mean moar threads like this? http://www.autoadmit.com/thr...
geriatric indirect expression milk
  09/13/15
Good lord.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
...
Angry Slippery Mad Cow Disease Ticket Booth
  09/13/15
(loser-fucker)
Topaz talking whorehouse turdskin
  09/13/15
man what a psycho.
Poppy Station People Who Are Hurt
  09/13/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/14/15
lol and now UVT is doing the angry asian version of the old...
vibrant confused house
  09/13/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
pensive, it's time to come home to xoxo, island of misfit to...
Stirring abode foreskin
  09/13/15
cr, but he has to embrace white nationalism first.
lemon mischievous office
  09/13/15
Contributions was created to redirect my user page to "...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Yeah, we never tried to kick him out.
hairraiser lodge halford
  09/13/15
Come back.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
"I don't have my "whole life" to develop basi...
vibrant confused house
  09/13/15
link?
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922720&mc=113&a...
vibrant confused house
  09/13/15
toxic.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
https://twitter.com/MichaelOChurch/status/6425223527487856...
hairraiser lodge halford
  09/13/15
WTF is he even talking about?
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Poor pensive. I enjoyed his heroic woman/cartoon character ...
Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel
  09/13/15
CR
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
tcr his latest stuff looks a lot like that DanielBro spam...
geriatric indirect expression milk
  09/13/15
I've known him since 2006. He used to be way crazier, and he...
Ivory gaping hell
  09/13/15
Sup Pensive? Can you possibly admit your failures are your o...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
PENSIVEEEEEEE
Stirring abode foreskin
  09/13/15
WELCOME BACK!
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
LMAO this is just gold. pensive do you really not underst...
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  09/13/15
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Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
cr
Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel
  09/13/15
So transparent. He's so earnest, in an absolutely psycho,...
dashing stag film toaster
  09/13/15
I think he has to sell himself on this tortured internal nar...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Self-Awareness FAILS are quite common for pensive. He really...
geriatric indirect expression milk
  09/14/15
Hi Pensive! Out of curiosity what events gave rise to yo...
Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel
  09/13/15
LOL, this post was way too blatant. You should have kept out...
Hyperactive cracking gas station black woman
  09/13/15
It boggles my mind how someone can actually be smart yet so ...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Lack of insight is common to many mental disorders.
Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel
  09/13/15
Idk a lot of mental people, addicts, etc. do off-the-wall sh...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Seems to be a bloated sense of entitlement at work here.
geriatric indirect expression milk
  09/14/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/15/15
at this point i dont think theres anything funny about your ...
Violet School Cafeteria Newt
  09/14/15
Pensive is a fuckin GOD.
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  09/13/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
cannot believe how many insane motherfuckers there are ITT o...
infuriating public bath generalized bond
  09/13/15
STFU. It's not outing.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
yes it is, you insane pumo FUCK anyone who outs a poste...
infuriating public bath generalized bond
  09/13/15
WTF are you talking about? Pensive is not an active poast...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
He's here in this very thread. Look up a bit.
Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel
  09/13/15
You are a level-headed poaster that I have respect for. Shou...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
I wouldn't post his real name on the bort even though almost...
Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel
  09/13/15
Thanks I took it off even though he's a "heel" poa...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
Are you new here?
dashing stag film toaster
  09/13/15
I removed the links with his name. If others choose to post ...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
RELATED QUESTIONS When will Michael Church become a Senio...
beta box office internal respiration
  09/13/15
"Why did Michael O. Church leave Jane Street?" ...
hairraiser lodge halford
  09/13/15
Goddamn traders are ALPHA.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
He even posted a fake question to himself and answered it an...
Lavender giraffe
  09/13/15
He didn't know I was a Quora Top Writer!
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
...
Costumed salmon cuck rigpig
  09/14/15
Oh dear
Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel
  09/13/15
More fake questions and fake posts. http://www.quora.com/...
Lavender giraffe
  09/13/15
I love how his self-poasting always follows a robotic format...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/13/15
not only is his assessment of himself completely at odds wit...
Angry Slippery Mad Cow Disease Ticket Booth
  09/13/15
this is real mental illness. uvt and benzo are light fare
aggressive roommate
  09/14/15
UVT displays the same lack of self-awareness. "Big Yell...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/14/15
no, uvt and nyuug do that shit because they know it riles pe...
Angry Slippery Mad Cow Disease Ticket Booth
  09/14/15
Sometimes people flame too hard and get stuck that way.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/14/15
nah, uvt is a little bit of both. same as george20, dbg, TT,...
Talented plum ceo
  09/14/15
here is a good test. is it possible to imagine uvt irl cryin...
aggressive roommate
  09/14/15
Can someone give me the cliffs on 'QuoraGate'? This looks li...
Contagious Cruel-hearted Locus
  09/14/15
It's your future, you psycho aspie.
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/14/15
Wtf is going on ITT? I don't get any of this
excitant theatre ape
  09/14/15
I'm usually not combative with other poasters but god damn p...
Comical misunderstood church main people
  09/14/15
I know we are hurting for content, but we should think long ...
Aphrodisiac Primrose Haunted Graveyard
  09/14/15
He's already back posting as "protein."
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/14/15
Okay, but if we don't give him the attention he so desperate...
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  09/14/15
...
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/25/15
...
Comical misunderstood church main people
  09/14/15
"So why does Paul Graham hate this comparably obscure i...
Violet School Cafeteria Newt
  09/14/15
Jfc
Comical misunderstood church main people
  09/14/15
(Loose Change narrator)
Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen
  09/14/15
LOL at a lot of the same poasters making fun of Pensive ITT ...
brilliant floppy mood
  09/14/15
Hey pensive!
Comical misunderstood church main people
  09/14/15
Hardly, but if you're one of the GamerGate fags who poasted ...
brilliant floppy mood
  09/14/15
well i wasn't luckily
Comical misunderstood church main people
  09/17/15


Poast new message in this thread



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:23 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

[redacted]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747641)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:28 PM
Author: zippy erotic locale lettuce

explain what's going on in this thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747662)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:30 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

He writes about himself constantly and finally got banned.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747673)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:31 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Like JJC, his dedication to flame spans sites and decades.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747677)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:07 PM
Author: geriatric indirect expression milk

Let me mention one thing about “sock puppeting”. I don’t do it, because it doesn’t work. I found that out on Wikipedia in 2004. It takes an enormous amount of energy and even if the sock puppets aren’t detected or proven, it looks ridiculous. One person stating an idiosyncratic opinion has an effect. People rarely change their opinions immediately after a heated debate– and if it gets nasty, they’ll pull farther apart and become more extreme– but can, in some circumstances, drift over time as they learn things that support the alternative hypothesis. That’s happened to me. A year after an argument, something will happen that convinces me that my “opponent” was more right than I’d originally been willing to accept. Two people stating an idiosyncratic opinion has less effect. A second identity that always supports the first, whether that second identity is controlled by the same person (“sock puppet”), an explicit collaborator (“meat puppet”), or just a random sycophant, actually makes them both look worse. It doesn’t establish consensus. And if you try to maintain five or more distinct identities to create false consensus, that’s only going to be transparent and a waste of time– and it will take a lot of time, too. I don’t “sock puppet” because I played that game 10 years ago and it proved to be completely pointless. It doesn’t fucking work, so can we get on with our lives?

Two years ago, I used an alternate account to browse health-related topics because I didn’t trust Quora’s privacy story. (That account still works, putting the lie to Quora’s claim that it “caught” me. “Sock puppeting” is a convenient proximate cause for any user ban because (a) it’s ill-defined, (b) using multiple accounts is usually quite harmless, (c) almost everyone does it, and (d) it carries an implicit threat which is to breach that person’s privacy.) That fact doesn’t fucking matter. Quora has tons of users with multiple accounts and doesn’t give the square root of a fuck.

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/quora-emergency-raise-pool-updates-and-other-quoragate-silliness/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747823)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:22 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747878)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:58 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

LOL as if these aren't all Pensive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748049)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:09 PM
Author: useless laughsome voyeur

lmaooooo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749778)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:16 PM
Author: zippy erotic locale lettuce

this is one of the strangest threads

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749813)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:15 PM
Author: beta box office internal respiration

Venture capitalist here, and a huge fan of Michael O. Church's writing. I know people who know Michael and his story and I have no doubt that he's on the right side of everything.

Unfortunately, Michael has made some very tasteless enemies. When he says that the CEO of a "VC darling" spent months trying to ruin his reputation, he's not exaggerating. (We didn't invest in that company, and our reservations about management ethics seem to have been right-on.) He seems to be getting out of the quicksand, and I'm sure we'll see Michael be very successful in the next few years.

this is hilarious

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749807)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:16 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749814)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:21 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

I believe that a third of those responses are legit. That one, I'm not sure about. No VC would say "Venture capitalist here".

Many come from randoms. I don't think that he sock puppets for himself, but Quora is full of trolls and sock puppets and he does have a fan following.

He doesn't sock puppet because he knows that other people will do his dirty work without him even asking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749834)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:22 PM
Author: beta box office internal respiration

hi pensive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749837)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:23 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Who asked all those questions about him? He's a nobody in the programming/startup world. Nobody could possibly be so interested in this guy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749841)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:27 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

He's a nobody but he's an extremely talented nobody and he articulates a lot of the hatred that the tech underclass develops as these nerds get older and realize that the frat boys are still pwning them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749862)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:31 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

You wrote 3 10000 word blog posts and 100s of tweets about getting banned for spamming a web site. Don't you have anything else in your life?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749871)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:02 AM
Author: Comical misunderstood church main people

Seek help

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751441)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 11:44 AM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751864)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:29 PM
Author: territorial brass macaca fat ankles

We've banned this account. Calling Marissa Mayer a cunt is an egregious violation of the civility that HN requires. (Using an archaic spelling doesn't change that, it just makes it weird.) No one gets to do this here.

LOL this really nails the essence of pensive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747665)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:30 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

"Using an archaic spelling doesn't change that, it just makes it weird."

LMAO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747674)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:35 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy Casino Pisswyrm

ahahahaha OUT the spelling

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747698)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:39 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747715)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:42 PM
Author: Wild federal trailer park sneaky criminal

Rofl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747729)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:42 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy Casino Pisswyrm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747731)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:47 PM
Author: Idiotic Silver Stain

amazing that they would ban him, a top contributor, for this. (not pensive)

has johnsmeyer been unbanned from twitter? i guess the jocks were right, it's better just to ignore all this nerdy tech shit and fuck hot cheerleaders.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747761)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:49 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Why? High volume doesn't mean high quality. He sock puppeted 100 questions basically asking "Why's Pensive so great?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747769)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:06 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

(Not pensive.) He actually has a pretty solid fan following on Quora and Hacker News. He is a talented guy and he attacks the smug self-described meritocracy of Silicon Valley.

He leaves out that he'd probably be part of that crowd if he weren't severely bipolar until his mid-20s, when he finally got treatment, but whatever. His life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749755)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:12 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

He is clearly severely bipolar right now. Rambling conspiracy theories and threatening "7 figure lawsuits" for not being allowed to post on someone else's website.

I like how he tears down the VC elite but a stopped clock is right once a day and all that. He's still a psycho who ruins communities with his spam.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749799)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:32 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

Paul Buchheit knows exactly who he is and is a friend of Marc Bodnick. It's not implausible that he called in a favor.

I find it believable only because I live in Silicon Valley and these people do stupid shit and stab each other in the back, all the time.

If you read that Tweet, his argument was that whoever replaced Paul Graham on HN banned him and misrepresented the conversation. Of course, 7 figures is ridiculously optimistic for a small libel suit. He could possibly get a "go away" settlement but it wouldn't be worth it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749879)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:36 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

No, you have no chance at winning a lawsuit for a fucking website ban. How on earth could you believe this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749899)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:38 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

For misrepresenting the conversation, not the ban. Reporters get sued if they flub a quote in a way that makes someone look bad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749911)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:41 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

What did they write that misrepresented your actions? You were caught sock puppeting by any normal definition, ("oh that was just a 'secondary account' for research purposes" lol).

And reporters get sued if there are actual damages and the conduct is particularly egregious, not over semantic battles with no material impact.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749934)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 2:24 PM
Author: sooty pit

Autoadmit poasters subpoenaed as character witnesses regarding pensive's propensity for sock puppets

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28752991)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:55 PM
Author: chocolate crackhouse

Not Pensive, but HN is becoming shit. People like Pensive may be pretentious assholes, but they are the people who think far enough outside the box to have some good ideas. And I'm not sure I could respect a man who hasn't called Marissa Mayer a cunt at some point in his life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747787)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:07 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

True he was probably banned for being a one-note negative aggro megaposter/troll in reality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747826)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:07 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

He claims that he was banned for a blog post in 2013: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/vc-istan-6-the-isms-of-venture-funded-technology/

Knowing Paul Graham, I can actually believe that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749764)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:11 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Bro have you seen the number of "[Pensive]" Quora questions? There's no chance he isn't sockpuppeting and spamming up a storm on there. Just because he's a "top contributor" it doesn't mean his contributions are any good.

He got banned on HN for calling someone a "[cunt]" and generally being an obnoxious troll on there writing 10 paragraph screeds about open plan offices, Evan Spiegel, and trash talking VCs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749791)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:34 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

I have. Like I said, I don't think that he's behind most of those questions. Some of them were clearly asked to make him look bad, like the one (which he turned around) about "Why is MOC infamous at Google?"

I don't read Hacker News often but when I do, I have no idea who is trolling and who is serious. It's a terrible community.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749892)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:37 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

So then you're sock puppeting and crapping up the site with questions nobody cares about. That's why you were banned. LMAO @ thinking employees are in open rebellion over banning some spammer.

Also why the fuck do you care about Quora anyway? It's a garbage startup limping along until the investors can off load it to someone dumb.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749906)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:09 PM
Author: frozen really tough guy

HN is the same stuff over and over, but that's the nature of personality-less forums.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747830)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:26 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Yes, unlike xoxohth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747898)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:33 PM
Author: Hyperactive cracking gas station black woman

"And I'm not sure I could respect a man who hasn't called Marissa Mayer a cunt at some point in his life."

What you can say to your friends in person is completely different from what you can say on a professional forum. It seems like most people on HN post on an account that can be easily linked to their actual identity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747927)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:34 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747931)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:36 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747937)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:31 PM
Author: passionate partner juggernaut



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749873)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:34 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfY3kMnG4E

YOU BANNED MY AUTISTIC SON FROM YOUR FORUM AND I'M GOING TO HAVE MY LAWYERS BACKTRACE YOU AND REPORT YOU TO THE CYBER POLICE YA DUN GOOFED PAUL GRAHM CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749891)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:37 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

"Hacker News is a piece-of-crap slow forum, full of fanboys to an overblown, passive-aggressive man-child who can’t even take a silly rap-battle challenge in stride, written in a Lisp that can’t hold a candle to Clojure."

That alone made this wall of text worth reading.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749903)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:38 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Unsurprising, since you wrote it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749908)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:31 PM
Author: hairraiser lodge halford

Chaucer's Cunt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748274)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 7:34 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748638)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:36 PM
Author: geriatric indirect expression milk

LJL:

The word “queynte” may be related to “cunt” and it may not be. “Queynte”, meaning “a charming, simple thing”, was used as a euphemism for the vagina by Chaucer, and some take that to indicate that “cunt” derived from that word. Others think it more likely that it derived from the Latin “cunnus”. Who knows? Who cares? I know how to fucking spell, and if I wanted to use the word “cunt”, I would have used it. However, I’m mindful of the fact that, even though I don’t consider myself a sexist person, there are some very bad people out there who have said horrible things about (and done some horrible things to) women and, in that light, it’s best to stay the fuck away from the word “cunt” when the person you need to insult is female. Call her a prick or an asshole or a scallywag instead, but don’t use any variety of “cunt” unless your target is a man. Got it. Yes, I am smart enough to follow that simple rule. “Queynte” is not “cunt”. There are literally two instances of Chaucer using it as a euphemism for the female anatomy, and he uses the same word in nonsexual contexts many more times. “Queynte” is more closely related to “quaint” than to any other modern word.

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/the-brownshirts-are-out/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747936)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:36 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

jinx!

Also: https://www.google.com/search?q=Queynte

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747938)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:41 PM
Author: Topaz talking whorehouse turdskin

I got bored after a few paragraphs. Is Y-Combinator going to assassinate Pensive?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747727)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:43 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

No but I feel legit bad for him. He thinks VCs are like super villains in movies out to get him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747734)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:08 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

They see him more as an annoyance than a threat, but most people on Quora believe his story to be true, because Marc Bodnick and Paul Buchheit are buddies. The Valley is like high school. I spend 4 months per year out there and I hate it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749774)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:15 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

You don't think they had a legit reason for banning him on Quora? You think all these questions are anything other than his typical sock puppet spam?

Unwarranted self-importance is a pensive trademark. None of these guys give a fuck about him except he keeps crapping up their sites.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749811)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:26 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

I don't believe that he has all those sock puppets. He has 7,000 Quora followers, if not more.

He also helps a lot of people out of career problems by checking references and intimidating the shit out of people if he catches them giving bad ones. Blacklisting is pretty common in Silicon Valley and he helps people fight it. The guy is intensely moralistic and that appeals to people.

I think Quora banned him because Paul Buchheit wanted him gone. They may have also seen his legitimately bizarre Wikipedia activity and seen him as a risk.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749857)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:30 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Pensive, you are literally sock puppeting right this minute. Give it a rest, bro.

Go see a doctor. I mean this for your own safety. If you just need someone to talk to, I have a friend who lives in your city who would be glad to lend an ear.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749869)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:53 PM
Author: Disturbing Home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750008)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 2:00 PM
Author: Idiotic Silver Stain

how do you know so much about pensive. seems like only pensive would know this much bout pensive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28752823)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 9:58 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28756589)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:08 AM
Author: Comical misunderstood church main people

Are you flame or literally the moast insufferable person on earth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751474)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:46 PM
Author: chocolate crackhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747756)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:09 PM
Author: Idiotic Silver Stain

old news. where have you been

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747829)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:13 PM
Author: chocolate crackhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747847)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:37 PM
Author: vibrant confused house

(xo 2015

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747939)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:41 PM
Author: chocolate crackhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747954)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:47 PM
Author: Sienna exciting garrison

i feel kind of bad in a way. back in the day, pensive would occasionally say he was worried about being completely overcome with mental illness. the fact that he can't hold a job anywhere, maintains that insane tribute to himself of a blog, and keeps getting deeply imbedded in all these retarded and petty forum conflicts (and eventually banned) because he can't fucking stop himself all seem to indicate that he's losing the battle against mental illness.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747759)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:49 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

:(

Yeah now I feel bad for laughing at him. He seems like a smart dood but thinks too highly of himself and needs to get his issues in check.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747766)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:04 PM
Author: Sienna exciting garrison

he's never been totally connected to reality of capable of being objective about himself. his insane emo/misogynist college bulletin board rantings revealed that he was a fucking lunatic back then, in 2008 he was telling XO he was an "objective 8" (which is pure comedy if you've ever seen a picture of him), and another 7 years later, he hasn't made much progress. but at this point it seems like he's like 15 past his initial aspie immaturity and social isolation, yet all this time out in the world and he has barely improved.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747814)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:13 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

No job never stay workin, mad purty

Shorty they call her the brain surgeon

Time flyin she the same person, never matures

All her friends married doin well

She's in the streets yakkety yakkin like she was 12

Honey is twenty-seven, argues fights

Selfish in her own right for life, guess she's in her second childhood

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747844)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:49 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy Casino Pisswyrm

he appears to have used a string of sock puppets to ask questions about himself on Quora, then chimed in with an answer under his own name, to give the appearance that there are actually people out there who wonder things like "Will Michael O. Church ever write a book?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747767)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:49 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747771)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:02 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle navy mother



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747809)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:05 PM
Author: Sienna exciting garrison

no different than what he did here for years. all these various forums are just outlets for his #1 obsession in life: self-congratualtory discussion about his own ideas and highly marginal accomplishments.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747816)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:12 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle navy mother

he's frustrated for ways to express himself and define his place in the world. people have a need to be able to feel "in control", and this is his coping behavior for that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747841)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:29 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

*9yo Pensive flipping Monopoly board over STORMING upstairs to invent his own card game*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748264)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:55 PM
Author: frozen really tough guy

his blog is very popular. I routinely see it on HN front page and reddit front page

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747786)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:55 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Hi, Pensive!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747788)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:16 PM
Author: Angry Slippery Mad Cow Disease Ticket Booth

He's the voice of the incipient disgruntled tech labor underclass. Not shocking that they are receptive to verbose aspie screeds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747853)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:11 PM
Author: useless laughsome voyeur

shit, you made me feel bad for rolling.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749790)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:00 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle navy mother

does this mean he'll start posting here again?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747804)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:11 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

OFS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747838)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:14 PM
Author: geriatric indirect expression milk

U mean moar threads like this?

http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=305275&forum_id=2#4374491

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747848)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:19 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Good lord.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747864)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:57 PM
Author: Angry Slippery Mad Cow Disease Ticket Booth



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748042)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:35 PM
Author: Topaz talking whorehouse turdskin

(loser-fucker)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747932)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:02 PM
Author: Poppy Station People Who Are Hurt

man what a psycho.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748081)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 9:56 AM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751426)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:04 PM
Author: vibrant confused house

lol

and now UVT is doing the angry asian version of the old pensive shtick - a cheap chinese knockoff of ... a shit pure shit cumskin autist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748103)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:07 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748118)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:21 PM
Author: Stirring abode foreskin

pensive, it's time to come home to xoxo, island of misfit toys. no one else wants you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747874)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:29 PM
Author: lemon mischievous office

cr, but he has to embrace white nationalism first.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747911)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:33 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Contributions was created to redirect my user page to "feces".

Seems like he'd love Halford!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28747926)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:33 PM
Author: hairraiser lodge halford

Yeah, we never tried to kick him out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748289)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 9:00 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Come back.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749228)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 5:55 PM
Author: vibrant confused house

"I don't have my "whole life" to develop basic romantic partnership skills; if I haven't done so by 25, I'm fucked."

at least he got that right, anticipating steez's scholarship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748031)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:09 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

link?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748133)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:14 PM
Author: vibrant confused house

http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922720&mc=113&forum_id=2#28226077

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748163)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:17 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

toxic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748184)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:30 PM
Author: hairraiser lodge halford

https://twitter.com/MichaelOChurch/status/642522352748785664

#QuoraGate seems to be finally over. Yay. Guilty verdict for Silicon Valley.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748270)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 6:33 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

WTF is he even talking about?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748286)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 7:25 PM
Author: Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel

Poor pensive. I enjoyed his heroic woman/cartoon character threading on xo. It looks like he is descending further and further into actual lunacy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748572)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 7:26 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

CR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748583)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 7:40 PM
Author: geriatric indirect expression milk

tcr

his latest stuff looks a lot like that DanielBro spammer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748691)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:17 PM
Author: Ivory gaping hell

I've known him since 2006. He used to be way crazier, and he's actually more successful than most people think, aside from an epic fail of a Google experience.

He has PTSD and bipolar disorder that he didn't get treated until he was 25 or so. (I think he's 31 now.) Now he's normal, except for being extremely angry that people less intelligent than him surpassed him in the years when he was effectively disabled.

Occasionally he will act crazy to intimidate people, like when he drew one of the worst managers at Google, realized he was going to get Perfed, and acted insane on a mailing list so they'd give him a severance if he got fired, which he didn't. That backfired in a huge way, because people still talk about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749819)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:22 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Sup Pensive? Can you possibly admit your failures are your own fault, even a little?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749839)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:23 PM
Author: Stirring abode foreskin

PENSIVEEEEEEE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749842)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:26 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

WELCOME BACK!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749852)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:51 PM
Author: Angry Slippery Mad Cow Disease Ticket Booth

LMAO this is just gold.

pensive do you really not understand that your authorial voice is INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE? not just the distinct writing style, but also the way you are always constantly sprinting from paragraph to paragraph trying to keep the narrative plates of your life spinning.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749993)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:51 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749996)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:01 PM
Author: Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750054)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:03 PM
Author: dashing stag film toaster

So transparent.

He's so earnest, in an absolutely psycho, loserish way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750068)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:18 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

I think he has to sell himself on this tortured internal narrative. Can't be his own fault.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750175)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:53 AM
Author: geriatric indirect expression milk

Self-Awareness FAILS are quite common for pensive. He really doesn't 'get' how conspicuous his faults are.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751606)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:00 PM
Author: Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel

Hi Pensive!

Out of curiosity what events gave rise to your PTSD diagnosis? Did you see a friend's head get blown off in Iraq?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750047)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:08 PM
Author: Hyperactive cracking gas station black woman

LOL, this post was way too blatant. You should have kept out the final paragraph.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750093)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:14 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

It boggles my mind how someone can actually be smart yet so blind to reality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750147)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:15 PM
Author: Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel

Lack of insight is common to many mental disorders.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750160)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:17 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Idk a lot of mental people, addicts, etc. do off-the-wall shit impulsively but at least know it's fucked up or express some remorse for it. It's very "creepy" to encounter someone like Pensive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750170)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:54 AM
Author: geriatric indirect expression milk

Seems to be a bloated sense of entitlement at work here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751608)



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Date: September 15th, 2015 2:31 AM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28758435)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:05 AM
Author: Violet School Cafeteria Newt

at this point i dont think theres anything funny about your mental illness, mike

hope you get the help you need

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751458)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 7:35 PM
Author: infuriating public bath generalized bond

Pensive is a fuckin GOD.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748653)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 7:42 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28748699)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:40 PM
Author: infuriating public bath generalized bond

cannot believe how many insane motherfuckers there are ITT outing his name and shit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749928)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:42 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

STFU. It's not outing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749940)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:43 PM
Author: infuriating public bath generalized bond

yes it is, you insane pumo FUCK

anyone who outs a poster's IRL name is fucking insane and should be permabanned for outing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749943)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:44 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

WTF are you talking about?

Pensive is not an active poaster.

People link to his blog articles all the time on here.

He writes about poasting on xoxo under his real name on fucking Quora.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749957)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:00 PM
Author: Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel

He's here in this very thread. Look up a bit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750051)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:01 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

You are a level-headed poaster that I have respect for. Should I remove the links?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750060)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:10 PM
Author: Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel

I wouldn't post his real name on the bort even though almost everyone who has been here for a while knows it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750115)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:16 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Thanks I took it off even though he's a "heel" poaster who's been outed for years like Doobs or PN.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750162)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:05 PM
Author: dashing stag film toaster

Are you new here?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750077)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:07 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

I removed the links with his name. If others choose to post them, whatever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750084)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:13 PM
Author: beta box office internal respiration

RELATED QUESTIONS

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More Related Questions

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749802)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:34 PM
Author: hairraiser lodge halford

"Why did Michael O. Church leave Jane Street?"

Good question. Seems like he should have been a perfect fit.

http://i.imgur.com/CiyActW.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749895)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 10:39 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Goddamn traders are ALPHA.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28749915)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:28 PM
Author: Lavender giraffe

He even posted a fake question to himself and answered it anonymously. LJL

https://twitter.com/MichaelOChurch/status/642331556552568832

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750219)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:29 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

He didn't know I was a Quora Top Writer!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750228)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 11:59 AM
Author: Costumed salmon cuck rigpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751969)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:37 PM
Author: Coral Sadistic Gaming Laptop Incel

Oh dear

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750277)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:37 PM
Author: Lavender giraffe

More fake questions and fake posts.

http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/Why-does-Paul-Graham-have-a-vendetta-against-Michael-O-Church

LOL. This guy seems unhinged. He's obviously narcissistic and I fear that he'll do something to these VCs if he doesn't get his way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750279)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:52 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

I love how his self-poasting always follows a robotic format. He thinks slipping a slight "ding" in there against himself will make people think it isn't him. Like someone wearing a disguise in a movie, "Oh that Pensive, he's an asshole."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750389)



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Date: September 13th, 2015 11:58 PM
Author: Angry Slippery Mad Cow Disease Ticket Booth

not only is his assessment of himself completely at odds with reality, he can't even understand what other people's assessment of him is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750418)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 12:05 AM
Author: aggressive roommate

this is real mental illness. uvt and benzo are light fare

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750462)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 12:07 AM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

UVT displays the same lack of self-awareness. "Big Yellow Monster" lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750472)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 12:15 AM
Author: Angry Slippery Mad Cow Disease Ticket Booth

no, uvt and nyuug do that shit because they know it riles people up. uvt is a schmuck for sure but he intentionally invites and relishes the scorn. pensive can't even figure out what people are actually thinking about him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750508)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 12:17 AM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

Sometimes people flame too hard and get stuck that way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750525)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 12:23 AM
Author: Talented plum ceo

nah, uvt is a little bit of both. same as george20, dbg, TT, and a bunch of others among the ranks of the board's more annoying posters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750559)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 12:21 AM
Author: aggressive roommate

here is a good test. is it possible to imagine uvt irl crying and shaking because he doesn't really believe it all himself and/or because he knows nobody else does? of course; in fact, most of us think he actually has such breakdowns. is it possible to imagine pensive doing so? no; in fact, all evidence suggests such an epiphany is firmly outside his grasp.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750545)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 12:12 AM
Author: Contagious Cruel-hearted Locus

Can someone give me the cliffs on 'QuoraGate'? This looks like 180 lulzy material, but pensive is so verbose.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750500)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 12:14 AM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

It's your future, you psycho aspie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750506)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 3:24 AM
Author: excitant theatre ape

Wtf is going on ITT? I don't get any of this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28750999)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 9:59 AM
Author: Comical misunderstood church main people

I'm usually not combative with other poasters but god damn pensive is a sad queer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751431)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:02 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac Primrose Haunted Graveyard

I know we are hurting for content, but we should think long and hard before we bait that faggot back here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751442)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:05 AM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

He's already back posting as "protein."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751454)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:10 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac Primrose Haunted Graveyard

Okay, but if we don't give him the attention he so desperately craves, he will slink away back into the shadows in a day or two.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751481)



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Date: September 25th, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28838806)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:11 AM
Author: Comical misunderstood church main people



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751485)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:11 AM
Author: Violet School Cafeteria Newt

"So why does Paul Graham hate this comparably obscure individual? Well, why does Google hate Facebook? Why did Microsoft hate Google in 2005? Why did IBM hate Microsoft in 1995? If you think about it, it makes a ton of sense."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751488)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 10:32 AM
Author: Comical misunderstood church main people

Jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751549)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 11:45 AM
Author: Sepia Menage Liquid Oxygen

(Loose Change narrator)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28751870)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 2:11 PM
Author: brilliant floppy mood

LOL at a lot of the same poasters making fun of Pensive ITT being devoted fanatics of GamerGate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28752905)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 2:12 PM
Author: Comical misunderstood church main people

Hey pensive!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28752913)



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Date: September 14th, 2015 2:30 PM
Author: brilliant floppy mood

Hardly, but if you're one of the GamerGate fags who poasted incessantly about it for months on here then you have no room to talk shit about someone who hasn't poasted in a decade going down similar fanboi faggot internet rabbit holes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28753017)



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Date: September 17th, 2015 3:52 PM
Author: Comical misunderstood church main people

well i wasn't luckily

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2988472&forum_id=2#28778848)