Good point. But I honestly think that some people like attention, even negative, anonymous, internet attention. For those people, a somewhat helpful or neutral post that people read and think "interesting" or "yep, that's true" and then move on after clicking the "like this" link is much less desirable than an inflammatory post that will cause several responses and down votes.
We rarely get up in arms and spend several subsequent posts on this forum talking about great posts and truly valuable contributions (well maybe a couple of times for some of Flash's posts). But we do it for negative, wrong, or just dumb posts. There's a reason: we want to make sure bad advice is not followed by newbies and there's value in that. I respect the people who haven't toggled bubba and intervene when he's giving bad advice. I've just found that for me, I get more joy out of this forum when I don't see his posts. Honestly, the main reason at the beginning was that it took a long time to read and understand his poorly worded and grammatically awkward posts. At some point I just decided it wasn't worth the trouble.
I'm sort of hoping that he responds to this so that I can have the unknown pleasure of ignoring it.
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