In the meantime, spectators at the drive-in are running short of popcorn. 
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I’m totally down with that. That’s not what I want. What I want is to bury the hatchet once and for all.
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Just funning you, who here has never had a typo!
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Wish I could do that myself, but if I buried any of the hatchets lying around, the truly motivated might pick up a rotten tomato or two.
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Just saying that the advice may be more appropriately given to the ones who initiate the attacks and insults in the first place. Picking on and being singled out is somewhat different for me. I don’t feel picked on, I am not the sort to be bothered by that…but I do feel singled out…a significant difference I think. As far as feeling being picked on, it is unlikely for me to feel that insecure. I am a combat veteran with many awards and medals of combat distinction (including the Bronze Star with Special V-Device). So, not too much bothers me except when my credibility is question and/or attacked. I am just stating what I perceive as being true…in being singled out.
They disagree with you. Aside from one or two people, that’s all it was. Someone questioned your ability to do math, and that was it. You don’t like that they disagree with you. Since the rest of the discussion ended, you’ve continued to insult people because they disagree with you. Please stop. If you really want to participate, please feel free to do so. Thanks.
It is easier to ban the new member than it is to keep the regulars in check. When a new member is making too much noise the routine is for 6 to 8 regulars to engage with argument with the new member until a four letter work comes out, then Volvo will call the police and ask to have the new member banned and the thread closed.
Recently a new member came here to talk “shop”, the others weren’t on the same level and the new member was banned for 1000 years for being argumentative.
There is that one guy who engages in argument every week, most regulars know to ignore that guy.
If you’re referring to the last guy (the one who re registered under a new name), his first account was locked after he sent me a series of profane private messages that had nothing to do with wanting to talk shop and being on a different level than the rest of the regulars. I just asked him not to curse. I even agreed with his point that people need to answer the questions asked and not tell somebody to go out and buy a new car. I didn’t lock him out a second time.
Also: The thousand-year date is assigned by Discourse, not me.
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It is not about disagreement of opinions. I have stated that many times. But can you really disagree on the facts; especially when tried and proven by the one who has done it…opposed (disagreed to) by the one who has not?
The discussion has apparently not ended with those few who keeping posting to me in disparaging remarks. You obviously have not followed this thread from the beginning until now. My insults are actually telling it like it is, and towards ones addressing me in much more disparaging ways.
Bottom line: Why keep post cutting remarks if wanting to stop??? That is what is happening. I am merely responding. Again…they stop…then I stop. It is really that simple.
In case you’d like to skim through @Rick-Woodbury’s latest post rather than read it, basically, he’s begging you to ban him. I can’t see any other reason to continue bickering the way he is.
I know you don’t like doing it, but it’s time to drop the ban hammer.
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Thanks. All I can say is: If I am being that argumentative, wouldn’t it be a done issue if they just ignore me? Why bring me back into a discussion if they are so tired of revisiting it. But as you say…the game is to provoke for an oust. So childish, but perhaps sadly true.
It was before that, I don’t recall the topic but it was the one that inspired this; Please feel free to report argumentative new members or frustrated regulars
The member appeared to be an auto mechanic, others in the discussion were not. Seemed unusual to ban someone for having too much repair experience.
For the ban time period, it seems that some of the regular trouble makers should be restricted from discussions for a period of time that is reasonable.
I just saw the exchange between yourself and cdaquila. It sounds like that last guy cdaquila was referring to is me. Please be advised that at no time did I use profanity or send any personal email of profanity. And I am not a re-registered member. Furthermore, I was not telling anyone to just go out and buy a new car. I was just offering some helpful saving tips on ones opting to do so. There is a difference that must be said.
If the reference was not to me, then I offer cdaquila my humble apology.
No, it was a crude mechanic.
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Hi Rick:
When you commented about some of the cutting replies you get on this board, I agreed with you and tried to be supportive. And I meant it.
However, you need to do your part too. The feedback you’ve been getting in the last 24 hours is spot on. The only way this or any board can operate is if parties are willing to “let go” of disagreements.
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I agree with you a 100%. And that is what I have been advocating ever since it started taking a ridiculous and redundant spin. Have you paid attention to my suggested remedy? They (THEY) stop…I stop. I am only one…they are seemingly in essence a click of a few with a group objective; others, like yourself (I am presuming) are not part of this particular click. Consider the phase similar to…never wake up a sleeping lion. It simply means…if you don’t bother him (if a male lion) then he won’t bother you. If I, a party of one, stop…the others as it appears, will not. So, it is fruitless (and perhaps disingenuous) to ask me to stop…when others are not.
Yet you never stop.
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You’ve said they’re not stopping, but there hasn’t been a comment in the thread you’re referring to in three days. As @texases noted, you’re the one who hasn’t stopped.
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You talking about that guy . . . texas rebel or something like that . . . that claimed he was a longtime mechanic and proceeded to say he had 5 ase credentials?
And then I proceeded to say I had WAY more credentials than him . . . and he “doubted” if I was telling the truth, to be polite. But the way he doubted me was anything but polite 
And then he may have reappeared very soon after being banned, but claimed he was the neighbor
You talking about that guy? 