Ah, I see what you are saying and I agree. I think most of us have twooffour on ignore now, and I haven't seen any replies to him in a while, and it feels very nice and peaceful. I am perfectly happy with this solution. I just find it amusing that Moth3r bothered to lock down nearly every active thread the other day, but doesn't give a shit about how anyone behaves. To use your pile of manure in the middle of the road comparison, it is like Moth3r placed a bunch of roadblocks to prevent interaction with the manure on a few particular roads, which effectively blocked people off from using those roads for legitimate means (their original topics) just because they had a small pile of manure on them.

Meanwhile, nothing is going to stop the cows from dropping fresh piles of chocolaty sprinkled manure on all the other unblocked roads.

Kind of puzzling to leave the cows out, say definitively that he doesn't care about the cows and nothing will be done about them, but yet still making an effort to place roadblocks to prevent access from the messes the cows are making. And in one case, even shutting down an organized effort to clean up and prevent more cow manure from accumulating (almost felt like he was saying, I won't be bothered to do anything about trolling, and I'll be damned if I let you try to do anything about it yourselves!).