Ignoring for a second I gave both his positive and negative attributes, thus providing a balance of his posting and somewhat negating your description of "over the top", max's reasons for not having pictures - I believe he stated them - were for professional reasons, as well as not wanting a permanent record of himself on the internet. I am the exact same way. For the sake of my job and by the off chance someone who knows me might stumble across this website, I choose the safest route possible of protecting myself. Call it LPSG abstinence :redface:.
In regards to ignoring max, lets be clear here: in the post in which he and spybot get into it, spybot makes a comment about "stupid American who believe in conspiracy theories". Everyone else lets it go, because for the most part, people regard conspiracy theories as rather far-fetched and thus the people that believe them can sometimes be described as stupid. It was not an attack on all Americans. It was a clumsily worded insult against a group who choose to believe their own fantasies in the face of evidence and facts. Max, like he so often does, chose to derail the thread and begin his usual tactic of quoting sentence for sentence each post of spybot's and from there the thread descended completely off-topic even for those who wished to stay on the OP vein. I don't want to ignore him, because he does post good material. On the other hand, I shouldn't have to put up with him derailing every thread he wishes because he chooses to have vendettas against posters.
This is par for the course. On threads such as these, he is not a positive contributor towards this site, he is nothing but a bully.
Max and I got into it in another thread, in which he repeatedly insulted the OP, calling him a liar. Many people were enjoying the thread. Finally several people noted Max's behavior, including myself. He instantly derided me as a "child" and from there there when I attempted to sensibly debate him, attempted to belittle me for my age and use profane language and threatened to report me, even though he was the person originally harassing the original poster. The thread was locked, Max, myself and several other posters were warned that our behavior was unacceptable. It seems only Max has continued to behave the in the manner we were warned of, justifying my negative claims.
I'm just saying, he was banned for several reasons and the descriptors I used to describe him are some of those reasons.
In regards to ignoring max, lets be clear here: in the post in which he and spybot get into it, spybot makes a comment about "stupid American who believe in conspiracy theories". Everyone else lets it go, because for the most part, people regard conspiracy theories as rather far-fetched and thus the people that believe them can sometimes be described as stupid. It was not an attack on all Americans. It was a clumsily worded insult against a group who choose to believe their own fantasies in the face of evidence and facts. Max, like he so often does, chose to derail the thread and begin his usual tactic of quoting sentence for sentence each post of spybot's and from there the thread descended completely off-topic even for those who wished to stay on the OP vein. I don't want to ignore him, because he does post good material. On the other hand, I shouldn't have to put up with him derailing every thread he wishes because he chooses to have vendettas against posters.
This is par for the course. On threads such as these, he is not a positive contributor towards this site, he is nothing but a bully.
Max and I got into it in another thread, in which he repeatedly insulted the OP, calling him a liar. Many people were enjoying the thread. Finally several people noted Max's behavior, including myself. He instantly derided me as a "child" and from there there when I attempted to sensibly debate him, attempted to belittle me for my age and use profane language and threatened to report me, even though he was the person originally harassing the original poster. The thread was locked, Max, myself and several other posters were warned that our behavior was unacceptable. It seems only Max has continued to behave the in the manner we were warned of, justifying my negative claims.
I'm just saying, he was banned for several reasons and the descriptors I used to describe him are some of those reasons.