When cryptozoologists attack!
As most of you probably already know, Snopes is the site to go to online to debunk or confirm various urban legends, forwarded emails, and scams. It's also the home of a very fun message board community, which often reminds me of fandom_wank for it's biting humour and commentary.

On May 11, a link to an article about Bigfoot was posted on the community. (I'm sorry, I can't even paraphrase the article, as it is banned in China.)

For 8 days, the only comment on this link was someone saying that they knew all along that the bigfoot video was a hoax.

Then...


JonErikBeckjordMBA joins the community, just to tell Barbara that she can't possibly have an opinion, because she isn't an expert like he is.

The snopesers are quick to tell him to stop being an idiot.

He's followed by Inrepair, who tells everyone upfront he only joined the community to defend those who believe in Bigfoot.

AnotherPullTab comes along to defend the honour of Bigfoot researchers and to assure everyone that they aren't all like JonErikBeckjordMBA, who is obviously insane, according to AnotherPullTab.

Turns out that The Bigfoot Forums, seeing the original post, called for people to sign up for the snopes forums. You can read the forums without an account, but to get an account, you must be approved by Snopes. InRepair called for people to join the forums and explain The Truth to that silly Barbara for insisting she knew the video of Bigfoot was a fake all along.




JonEricwhatever comes back to quote an entire message for no reason, then follow it up with a post where he insists he will educate the foolish.

He also starts bashing his own groups, insisting that newbies to the bigfoot community have no right to an opinion. He calls them "pizza-boys and bums". He's quick to insult AnotherPullTab's opinions and handle. Of course, he also thinks that Bigfoot is an alien or an angel or something. I was quite lost when he started telling everyone that Bigfoot spoke to him.

JonEricwhatever makes repeated back to back posts. The first one is always a direct quote of another poster, with no comment from him. He puts his comments in the next post. Which is... strange.

I think my favorite post by Johntoolongofaname is this one:

YOU DO NOT PAY ME ANY CASH TO LOOK AT THESE
PHOTOS. Comprendo? Nobody pays me anything for my
website nor the BANDWITH CHARGES I INCUR.
Got it?
I put TIFF images up, ARE YOU GONNA PAY ME FOR THAT?

Real researchers can visit me and see the images in Kodak prints or slides and some
do this.

Hey Swollen -- how about you send me

$2,000 via paypal.com ??? OK?

Send cash. rudy@stealthaccess.net

(God,the net is full of d*rks !)

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"Nothing bugs me more than people
who think they know it all, when of course it is only I that know it all."

Although AnglRdr's response really makes it:

*sigh*

Indeed.



Apparently Erictoolongofanametobotherwith has been a troll in the side of the bigfoot community for a while, according to AnotherPullTab:

The "unmentioned one" is none other than Mr. Beckjord..its kind of a running joke, a talisman if you will, to keep him away LOL!

To which he responds (all typing errors his own):

JB-- I am banned from ALL sites run by idiots and newbies. They can';t take any logic and cannot take being told they don;t know much.

Being banned means you pissed off ONE guy, who runs it. Like, "so what?" It is like being barred from the idiots club

See, they have their very own she-who-must-not-be-named! Except, you know, as a guy.

Iraq gets brought up. Why? I don't know. So do the Hitler diaries, Dungeons and Dragons, altered photos (my message is pastede on yay!), a betting pool/death watch on our man Ericwhatever, and the ALL CAPS of rage. Oh, and cookies.



The whole thing ends with Jonwhateveryouwanttocallhim bravely announcing that he's leaving, forever, because everyone is too stupid to understand him.


Hi folks, and kiddies:

With due resp[ect to Barns and Bull,' The guy who was nicely stringing him along the whole time. Those posts are beautiful, do check them out.

(thanks) I think I will mosey on and go trash other boards, since the idiot element is growing here. It has been fun.

Best to all,

Bye..

Jon-Erik


Of course, the entire thread of people just saying "Look, go away" in various ways is kinda fun, too.

Edited: Because I can't close html tags, nor can I spell.