freediver wrote on Dec 12
th, 2017 at 12:29pm:
The rules already state that you are not to respond to offensive posts.
Correct.
But there is no rule that says someone can't repeatedly stalk you for the purpose of inserting one- or two-line posts designed to irritate, deflect, harass, and upset the flow of the topic being discussed.
Karnal does this without insult or abuse, but his endless series of posts that step on my posts are every bit as detrimental to the smooth and fair running of this forum board.
You are in ignorance of this because you yourself are not the target of this persistent harassment that wants to shut me down.
In the vast majority of cases I do not respond to his snippets of gibberish, but he well knows that others will take up his invitation to help deflect and derail these threads until it's rendered a train-wreck in very short time.
Persistent hecklers most often do not use foul language, but they are nevertheless people with a mission to disrupt what they don't like to hear, until the Speaker has to call Security, or the poster simply gives up because the moderators or the Board Owner finds these teasing antics amusing.