Will the real “userfriendly” please stand up?

Although some people may not believe this, I have no problem admitting that I was wrong.

I was wrong.

I detest trolls. Not the kind that live under bridges, but the kind that try and disrupt a useful message board.

I detest sockpuppets. Not the kind that make cute commercials for the quite dead pets.com website, but the kind that talk to themselves on a useful message board.

HalifaxTalk.com is that useful message board that I speak about. Darrin Talbott has tried to make a forum where people can talk about county issues. His sister, Bunny Propst, has worked her ass off fighting for the future of Riverdale. Everything’s going as well as things normally do on a local message board until a poster named userfriendly comes along and starts posting ridiculous crap and refusing to answer any questions posed directly to him. He took Bunny’s cause and led her to believe that he was on her side then turned around and made it clear that he used her and had no support for her worthy cause at all.

This troll has continued in his normal fashion, saying outrageous things and refusing to address any points brought up by others. Miraculously, userfriendly started responding and having a direct conversation with Tom McLaughlin, a writer & columnist for the News & Record newspaper in South Boston.

I, like others, thought that this guy was Bob Meeks, who’s claim to fame has been losing big in a Commonwealth’s Attorney race. I no longer believe that “userfriendly” is Bob Meeks. I believe that “userfriendly” is Tom McLaughlin under a different name (a “sockpuppet”).

Some friends have submitted the same thoughts because of posting styles and the “good cop/bad cop” routine that’s going on now. Tonight, a friend of SouthsideCentral monitored the “Who’s Online” feature of the message board and noticed that userfriendly and Tom McLaughlin logged in and out at the exact times that each of the accounts posted to comment on the other’s postings (what a sentence…).

I want to make this very clear. This is my opinion only and this opinion is posted here on SouthsideCentral. I have nothing to do with the management of HalifaxTalk. If anyone has an issue with my opinion, you are free to talk about it here. If I am proved wrong on this opinion, I will gladly apologize to all parties involved.

That being said, I don’t think I’m wrong on this one. I detest trolls, I detest sockpuppets, and I detest my friends being used as pawns in a game. I’m saying what I am here in hopes that this troll and sockpuppet identity will stop using my friends as pawns in his game.