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

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lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
explain what's going on in this thread
spectacular temple
  09/13/15
He writes about himself constantly and finally got banned.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Like JJC, his dedication to flame spans sites and decades.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Let me mention one thing about “sock puppeting”. I don’t do ...
Jet Hunting Ground Set
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
LOL as if these aren't all Pensive.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
lmaooooo
stimulating box office
  09/13/15
this is one of the strangest threads
spectacular temple
  09/13/15
Venture capitalist here, and a huge fan of Michael O. Church...
Amethyst Anal Partner Step-uncle's House
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
I believe that a third of those responses are legit. That on...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
hi pensive
Amethyst Anal Partner Step-uncle's House
  09/13/15
Who asked all those questions about him? He's a nobody in th...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
He's a nobody but he's an extremely talented nobody and he a...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
You wrote 3 10000 word blog posts and 100s of tweets about g...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Seek help
topaz gunner
  09/14/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/14/15
We've banned this account. Calling Marissa Mayer a cunt is a...
fragrant preventive strike
  09/13/15
"Using an archaic spelling doesn't change that, it just...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
ahahahaha OUT the spelling
Wonderful indigo rehab
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Rofl
Irradiated light public bath famous landscape painting
  09/13/15
...
Wonderful indigo rehab
  09/13/15
amazing that they would ban him, a top contributor, for this...
Pearly patrolman trust fund
  09/13/15
Why? High volume doesn't mean high quality. He sock puppeted...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
(Not pensive.) He actually has a pretty solid fan following ...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
He is clearly severely bipolar right now. Rambling conspirac...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Paul Buchheit knows exactly who he is and is a friend of Mar...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
No, you have no chance at winning a lawsuit for a fucking we...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
For misrepresenting the conversation, not the ban. Reporters...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
What did they write that misrepresented your actions? You we...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Autoadmit poasters subpoenaed as character witnesses regardi...
overrated old irish cottage center
  09/14/15
Not Pensive, but HN is becoming shit. People like Pensive ma...
Shivering Site Persian
  09/13/15
True he was probably banned for being a one-note negative ag...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
He claims that he was banned for a blog post in 2013: https:...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
Bro have you seen the number of "[Pensive]" Quora ...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
I have. Like I said, I don't think that he's behind most of ...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
So then you're sock puppeting and crapping up the site with ...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
HN is the same stuff over and over, but that's the nature of...
Obsidian vigorous international law enforcement agency
  09/13/15
Yes, unlike xoxohth.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
"And I'm not sure I could respect a man who hasn't call...
galvanic green base
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
...
Exhilarant Potus
  09/13/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfY3kMnG4E YOU BANNED MY...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
"Hacker News is a piece-of-crap slow forum, full of fan...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
Unsurprising, since you wrote it.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Chaucer's Cunt
Olive fanboi
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
LJL: The word “queynte” may be related to “cunt” and it m...
Jet Hunting Ground Set
  09/13/15
jinx! Also: https://www.google.com/search?q=Queynte
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
I got bored after a few paragraphs. Is Y-Combinator going t...
Swashbuckling cruise ship
  09/13/15
No but I feel legit bad for him. He thinks VCs are like supe...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
They see him more as an annoyance than a threat, but most pe...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
You don't think they had a legit reason for banning him on Q...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
I don't believe that he has all those sock puppets. He has 7...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
Pensive, you are literally sock puppeting right this minute....
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
...
umber racy crotch
  09/13/15
how do you know so much about pensive. seems like only pensi...
Pearly patrolman trust fund
  09/14/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/14/15
Are you flame or literally the moast insufferable person on ...
topaz gunner
  09/14/15
...
Shivering Site Persian
  09/13/15
old news. where have you been
Pearly patrolman trust fund
  09/13/15
...
Shivering Site Persian
  09/13/15
(xo 2015
beady-eyed area round eye
  09/13/15
...
Shivering Site Persian
  09/13/15
i feel kind of bad in a way. back in the day, pensive would ...
Domesticated messiness
  09/13/15
:( Yeah now I feel bad for laughing at him. He seems like...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
he's never been totally connected to reality of capable of b...
Domesticated messiness
  09/13/15
No job never stay workin, mad purty Shorty they call her th...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
he appears to have used a string of sock puppets to ask ques...
Wonderful indigo rehab
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
...
Turquoise angry dog poop faggotry
  09/13/15
no different than what he did here for years. all these vari...
Domesticated messiness
  09/13/15
he's frustrated for ways to express himself and define his p...
Turquoise angry dog poop faggotry
  09/13/15
*9yo Pensive flipping Monopoly board over STORMING upstairs ...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
his blog is very popular. I routinely see it on HN front pag...
Obsidian vigorous international law enforcement agency
  09/13/15
Hi, Pensive!
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
He's the voice of the incipient disgruntled tech labor under...
razzmatazz corner
  09/13/15
shit, you made me feel bad for rolling.
stimulating box office
  09/13/15
does this mean he'll start posting here again?
Turquoise angry dog poop faggotry
  09/13/15
OFS.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
U mean moar threads like this? http://www.autoadmit.com/thr...
Jet Hunting Ground Set
  09/13/15
Good lord.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
...
razzmatazz corner
  09/13/15
(loser-fucker)
Swashbuckling cruise ship
  09/13/15
man what a psycho.
blue narrow-minded station
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/14/15
lol and now UVT is doing the angry asian version of the old...
beady-eyed area round eye
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
pensive, it's time to come home to xoxo, island of misfit to...
Translucent Office Mexican
  09/13/15
cr, but he has to embrace white nationalism first.
alcoholic crystalline menage
  09/13/15
Contributions was created to redirect my user page to "...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Yeah, we never tried to kick him out.
Olive fanboi
  09/13/15
Come back.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
"I don't have my "whole life" to develop basi...
beady-eyed area round eye
  09/13/15
link?
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922720&mc=113&a...
beady-eyed area round eye
  09/13/15
toxic.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
https://twitter.com/MichaelOChurch/status/6425223527487856...
Olive fanboi
  09/13/15
WTF is he even talking about?
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Poor pensive. I enjoyed his heroic woman/cartoon character ...
know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef
  09/13/15
CR
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
tcr his latest stuff looks a lot like that DanielBro spam...
Jet Hunting Ground Set
  09/13/15
I've known him since 2006. He used to be way crazier, and he...
razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse
  09/13/15
Sup Pensive? Can you possibly admit your failures are your o...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
PENSIVEEEEEEE
Translucent Office Mexican
  09/13/15
WELCOME BACK!
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
LMAO this is just gold. pensive do you really not underst...
razzmatazz corner
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
cr
know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef
  09/13/15
So transparent. He's so earnest, in an absolutely psycho,...
Passionate university giraffe
  09/13/15
I think he has to sell himself on this tortured internal nar...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Self-Awareness FAILS are quite common for pensive. He really...
Jet Hunting Ground Set
  09/14/15
Hi Pensive! Out of curiosity what events gave rise to yo...
know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef
  09/13/15
LOL, this post was way too blatant. You should have kept out...
galvanic green base
  09/13/15
It boggles my mind how someone can actually be smart yet so ...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Lack of insight is common to many mental disorders.
know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef
  09/13/15
Idk a lot of mental people, addicts, etc. do off-the-wall sh...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Seems to be a bloated sense of entitlement at work here.
Jet Hunting Ground Set
  09/14/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/15/15
at this point i dont think theres anything funny about your ...
Cyan sexy nursing home becky
  09/14/15
Pensive is a fuckin GOD.
motley mischievous jap
  09/13/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
cannot believe how many insane motherfuckers there are ITT o...
motley mischievous jap
  09/13/15
STFU. It's not outing.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
yes it is, you insane pumo FUCK anyone who outs a poste...
motley mischievous jap
  09/13/15
WTF are you talking about? Pensive is not an active poast...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
He's here in this very thread. Look up a bit.
know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef
  09/13/15
You are a level-headed poaster that I have respect for. Shou...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
I wouldn't post his real name on the bort even though almost...
know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef
  09/13/15
Thanks I took it off even though he's a "heel" poa...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
Are you new here?
Passionate university giraffe
  09/13/15
I removed the links with his name. If others choose to post ...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
RELATED QUESTIONS When will Michael Church become a Senio...
Amethyst Anal Partner Step-uncle's House
  09/13/15
"Why did Michael O. Church leave Jane Street?" ...
Olive fanboi
  09/13/15
Goddamn traders are ALPHA.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
He even posted a fake question to himself and answered it an...
lilac concupiscible abode
  09/13/15
He didn't know I was a Quora Top Writer!
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
...
Ultramarine dingle berry plaza
  09/14/15
Oh dear
know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef
  09/13/15
More fake questions and fake posts. http://www.quora.com/...
lilac concupiscible abode
  09/13/15
I love how his self-poasting always follows a robotic format...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/13/15
not only is his assessment of himself completely at odds wit...
razzmatazz corner
  09/13/15
this is real mental illness. uvt and benzo are light fare
carnelian cerebral jew
  09/14/15
UVT displays the same lack of self-awareness. "Big Yell...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/14/15
no, uvt and nyuug do that shit because they know it riles pe...
razzmatazz corner
  09/14/15
Sometimes people flame too hard and get stuck that way.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/14/15
nah, uvt is a little bit of both. same as george20, dbg, TT,...
Electric tanning salon
  09/14/15
here is a good test. is it possible to imagine uvt irl cryin...
carnelian cerebral jew
  09/14/15
Can someone give me the cliffs on 'QuoraGate'? This looks li...
adventurous garrison haunted graveyard
  09/14/15
It's your future, you psycho aspie.
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/14/15
Wtf is going on ITT? I don't get any of this
Doobsian meetinghouse
  09/14/15
I'm usually not combative with other poasters but god damn p...
topaz gunner
  09/14/15
I know we are hurting for content, but we should think long ...
Sable pit coffee pot
  09/14/15
He's already back posting as "protein."
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/14/15
Okay, but if we don't give him the attention he so desperate...
Sable pit coffee pot
  09/14/15
...
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/25/15
...
topaz gunner
  09/14/15
"So why does Paul Graham hate this comparably obscure i...
Cyan sexy nursing home becky
  09/14/15
Jfc
topaz gunner
  09/14/15
(Loose Change narrator)
lemon business firm windowlicker
  09/14/15
LOL at a lot of the same poasters making fun of Pensive ITT ...
Walnut Generalized Bond
  09/14/15
Hey pensive!
topaz gunner
  09/14/15
Hardly, but if you're one of the GamerGate fags who poasted ...
Walnut Generalized Bond
  09/14/15
well i wasn't luckily
topaz gunner
  09/17/15


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Date: September 13th, 2015 4:23 PM
Author: lemon business firm windowlicker

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(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: spectacular temple

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Jet Hunting Ground Set

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: stimulating box office

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: spectacular temple

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: Amethyst Anal Partner Step-uncle's House

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

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: Amethyst Anal Partner Step-uncle's House

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: topaz gunner

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: fragrant preventive strike

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

"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: Wonderful indigo rehab

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: Irradiated light public bath famous landscape painting

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: Wonderful indigo rehab



(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: Pearly patrolman trust fund

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

(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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: overrated old irish cottage center

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: Shivering Site Persian

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Obsidian vigorous international law enforcement agency

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: galvanic green base

"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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: Exhilarant Potus



(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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

"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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Olive fanboi

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: Jet Hunting Ground Set

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Swashbuckling cruise ship

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: umber racy crotch



(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: Pearly patrolman trust fund

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: topaz gunner

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: Shivering Site Persian



(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: Pearly patrolman trust fund

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: Shivering Site Persian



(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: beady-eyed area round eye

(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: Shivering Site Persian



(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: Domesticated messiness

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

:(

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: Domesticated messiness

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Wonderful indigo rehab

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: Turquoise angry dog poop faggotry



(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: Domesticated messiness

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: Turquoise angry dog poop faggotry

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

*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: Obsidian vigorous international law enforcement agency

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzmatazz corner

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: stimulating box office

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: Turquoise angry dog poop faggotry

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Jet Hunting Ground Set

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzmatazz corner



(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: Swashbuckling cruise ship

(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: blue narrow-minded station

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: beady-eyed area round eye

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: Translucent Office Mexican

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: alcoholic crystalline menage

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Olive fanboi

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: beady-eyed area round eye

"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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: beady-eyed area round eye

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Olive fanboi

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Jet Hunting Ground Set

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: razzle-dazzle frisky crackhouse

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Translucent Office Mexican

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzmatazz corner

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef

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: Passionate university giraffe

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Jet Hunting Ground Set

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: know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef

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: galvanic green base

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Jet Hunting Ground Set

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: Cyan sexy nursing home becky

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: motley mischievous jap

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: motley mischievous jap

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: motley mischievous jap

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Passionate university giraffe

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Amethyst Anal Partner Step-uncle's House

RELATED QUESTIONS

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Why does Michael Church dislike Evan Spiegel?

Hacker News: Why does Paul Graham have a vendetta against Michael O. Church?

Why did Michael O. Church "come out" about having Cyclothymia?

What does Michael O. Church mean by "co-branded entity"?

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What are Michael O. Church's thoughts on TopCoder and algorithmic coding competitions in general?

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: Olive fanboi

"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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: lilac concupiscible abode

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Ultramarine dingle berry plaza



(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: know-it-all vengeful hominid roast beef

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: lilac concupiscible abode

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzmatazz corner

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: carnelian cerebral jew

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: razzmatazz corner

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Electric tanning salon

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: carnelian cerebral jew

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: adventurous garrison haunted graveyard

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Doobsian meetinghouse

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: topaz gunner

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: Sable pit coffee pot

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

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: Sable pit coffee pot

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: lemon business firm windowlicker



(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: topaz gunner



(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: Cyan sexy nursing home becky

"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: topaz gunner

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: lemon business firm windowlicker

(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: Walnut Generalized Bond

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: topaz gunner

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: Walnut Generalized Bond

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: topaz gunner

well i wasn't luckily

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