We'll agree to disagree onthe first point. Both experienced and witnessed to the second. On the next occasion I encounter sniping,  I'll try to be specific without playing into the sniper's hands.  

Wow, topic in which name I don't know 1.5 words. Sneer = look ?

Oh and to be honest, I feel good here. Non answered topics bothers me sometimes, also fact that most people visits and posts (including me) just in first section here on forum, Prog lounge, but so far, no feel of being endangered. Heh, Ricochet has eye avatar, so I suppose he's watching (or at least his avatar is). And you have total of six eyes Big Ears (are these ears those of these cats?), so that's literal meaning of having pair of eyes even on my back.

There is, however, one collaborator I'm little bit afraid of. He scares me (also a little bit).

Epignosis wrote: Boo!

Actually, you're third most scariest for me.

But hell (is hell scary) I have to thank you for keeping eye on grammar level. Or at least I read post by you somewhere, that you care for good language. Also your reviews are often on the same level of stars as my are. And your posts are in to-the-topic style, something I'm not able to do.And I saw your photo, it also helps. And you don't look mean.

Nope, someone else .,..

There was a line after these dots, which I deleted, to prevent revealing the truth. You are not The One (again, Babylon 5 quote), even your Boondock new avatar is good (great movie), assuming that I'm correct in that guess. And your last one was also nice.

The Doctor, you're the one who was doing this to me back in Hill Valley high school. No, I can't be mad at you 

But back to topic, sniping is bad thing, very bad thing. And hard to prove. And after all, hard to think about, when you're victim, because it's the bully, who's in charge of it, who's doing it. You're terrorized by him and this affects you. Negatively. Friend tackling and argues are normal here, there's nothing bad about playing this game with someone you know for some time and both of you want it. But .. you know. 

Padraic wrote: Please relinquish the name of this scary collab so that we may mercilessly tease him or her.

Somebody pointed it out in another topic. That it has something to do with avatars. For example Snow Dog, he has pleasant avatar which greets people and say: Hello, I'm nice person. And voila, he is. But you are different. You may be, as you proved from this post (kind, use of word please, keeping playing this game and not being pedant to break it),  but you may be not. That's your trait. You are from Zeuhl team, you have this mystery dog with blue eyes (or wolf more likely, snow wolf ? or something else, my knowledge isn't in nature much) and so are you, mysterious person for me.

But not in bad way of this word. Even this More Mysterious Person Than You, about who I'm talking about is not bad. Just keeping his distance, from me at least.

So it's avatar. One guy once wrote (here in another post), that if you want to scare the people, or frighten them, choose one special avatar. One person to be exact.

hehe

EDIT: OF COURSE, YOU'RE RIGHT. THIS NUMBER SOUNDED IMPOSSIBLE TO ME, SO MY BRAIN TOOK ZERO LESS NUMBER. One F-ckin million, that's insane, breath-taking and makes 577 posts per day. How ? :- O

Few things OFFT and one OT:

- The Doctor who travels in Tardis. It's very favourite in UK/US I suppose. But I never saw even one episode. Same with Twilight Zone, or Mystery Science Theater 3000. I saw something on youtube, maybe I should watch it.

-Tony, you're less scary, because I have animation turned off. But truth is that it makes this horse more visible. I assume that you're The Tony, this Tony everyone's referring at. Well, admin with 100k posts, well, that's impressive. And I almost never saw your posts, probably looking bad way, bad sections.

-as for referring at Micky is usual, he's kinda legend here too :-)

-Raff - your avatar maybe presents sinister group of people, but they're done in warm colours of blue and orange, so it pleases, rather than scares.

randy

Randy
Overly excited in a sexual manner. See also horny.

oh my dear god, that's not what I want to think about :-O

-Negoba has quite scary avatar, but his new one is better. Cuteness, over horror bringing masked man

-Strange, LiqEt's avatar is not so usual, as I think about it. But because of few facts, he can't be scary for me. And Epignosis, well, this avatar makes one feel little bit respect and being

-wolf, dog and I forgot about third one, fox. My bad. And for the second response, my girlfriend is telling me this all the time, when I look her with still stare into the eyes. I like that, when I was young, I couldn't stand looking into someone's eyes, now I've mastered it. Different looks, lazy cat eyes, wild staring eyes, enigmatic ones, angry look with confrontation...

Yeah, this forum is better right from the beginning. Prog is music for thinking (even not necessarily always, but mostly), so childish behavior and majority of answers like: "lol, yea, :-D, stfu noob..." won't be reality here. In fact, I haven't heard stfu here (maybe now, jokingly will somebody use it), so it's good.

However, more intelligent people means that somebody can be evil enough to act normally in public, but doing these things in private, sniping, blaming, chasing... just possibility, nothin more. And not big chance for that though.

But it's different problem, if you have problems with long time member, who's respected, or admin/mod/collab, who are respected even more. Maybe to extent that they're untouchable. No offense, but this function is for invited and deeply scanned ones, so when you're in, you can do things that you wouldn't be able normally, just because of your authority. No talking in particular, just theoretically. 

Lemmings can't be scary for me, because back in early 90's, when I  was discovering magical world of DOS games on dad's 486 (with I suppose 40Mhz and 16MB ?), one of games I adored the most was Lemmings.

Suicidal creatures they look like, but wikipedia says different thing, as you probably know. But myth is strong thing. For example in Czech, there is a saying "I don't think about it, I know it." Well, he has to think about it to know it, he can't be sure if he doesn't think about it. In fact, correct translation is more like "I don't think it, I know it"

but lemmings will always fall off the cliffs in minds of people. I had once guinea pig, but it died. I was sad.

I saw Epignosis defense in Indukti thread and I read all posts here, because it concerns me as well. I gave this abomination (my point of view) 2 stars, he gave 1 and gave also hell better explanation. And then defended himself (maybe not, but for sure had about 20 posts here). And Micky was there. He's legend ?