Hey, Winston, you're going to be pissed at me for saying this, but I have learned some interesting things since I decided a couple of weeks ago to load all of those NGs that are part of these cross-posts into my newsreader for a look-see. What you're addressing here is part of it.
I used to think the real weirdos, the trolls, and the sock puppets and nym-shifters were coming into RCM from all over -- from the gun groups, and the political groups, and so on. Gunner, then Cliff, then TMT, and now Keller cross-posted all over the place.
But they're not coming from all over. All of them, or nearly all of them, are coming from the survivalist groups.
What a couple of freak shows, especially misc.survivalism. Half of those people are batshit crazy. Most of the rest, like Red Prepper, are juvenile delinquents.
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what you find enjoyable about that environment. Looking at what's happened to RCM, I'm convinced that the damage that's been done is nearly all attributable to freaks from those groups, who engage via cross-posting. They're tribal as hell and they support each other in their nuttiness.
You may have caught this example from Pox today:
So Pox is saying that I somehow removed his post -- which he clearly never made. Apparently he thinks I've stolen his passwords, or that I'm in charge of what stays on the NG and what gets removed. The dude is seriously unhinged. No one said a word.
Emotional and psychological disturbances rarely appear as singularities; one tends to produce others, in behavioral clusters, which is part of what makes psychology so hard. If you could pack up those NGs and send them off to a big university psych department, you could keep the grad students in term paper subject matter for years.
But thanks for speaking up. It's good to see that there has the sanity and character to say something.