FERRERMANIA!!!!!

The two month anniversary of Ferrerman not posting on Topix passed with absolutely no fanferrer. I forgot and Topix, well, their anti-Ferrerman sentiment just won't allow them to acknowledge such things. Anyways, it was August 24th (of this year) and today is September Third (also of this year) and the last Ferrerman post was made June 24th of 2013.

I've made a few gray posts just to keep my hand in but, mostly to see how long they last. Someone at Topix has severe anti-Ferrerman sentiment and spends much time hunting down suspected Ferrerman posts and disposing of them.

That's really aberrant behavior if you think about it. For all it's faults, Topix is pretty much of an in the moment kinda thing. You might like to go back 24 hours in a thread to get a good feel for the conversation. You needn't go much further than that. I'd venture that most people don't.

Topix is big on removing posts going back years. At some point recently, my other profile, Larry Meber, was purged to satiate some asshole's rabid thirst for revenge and ALL Larry Meber posts- there were maybe 3400- from the beginning of time were wiped from the face of Topix Earth. Damn.

Harsh. Kinda unnecessary too but, that's Topix justice. It's very important to them. No one knows why.

Topix, as I've reported here from time to time, has been steadily going down the tubes for a couple of years now. This past year, I really think Hegel and I have all but killed it. The format changed from, whatever it had been, to a simple outlet for bullies to bully from.

Seriously- does anyone remember what Topix was supposed to be? Something to do with news and opinion? Anybody? Bueller?

I think a lot of posters simply gave up. Even some of the trolls who helped kill Offbeat, like Dork and Bex seemed to have given up. Their goal appeared to be to control Offbeat. Be careful what you wish for.... All of Topix is so territorial. Gangs form and they want to create threads where only their friends can post. I always think: Don't these people know about email? That's just you, your friends and the NSA.

Well, they need the audience, I guess. That's the irony of anti-Ferrerman sentiment. You cannot defeat Ferrerman. You can only hope to contain him. You should not actually defeat Ferrerman as, well, Ferrerman is a fine adversary to have around. People love, Love, LOVE jumping on the anti-Ferrerman bandwagon! At the height of Ferrermania, hundreds of socks were created to troll Ferrerman. No Ferrer post- or suspected Ferrer post went untaunted. I have to admit, I helped fill Topix coffers just by showing up. Face it: whatever "Sam" was, that fuckhead let no Ferrer post go untouched. Whether s/he/it was Snuffybooboo or Angelique, that POS literally lived to shadow Ferrerman. I mean- really? Someone dedicated their whole existence to scouring Topix for Ferrerman posts just to icon and trash them.  Sheesh.

It's weird but, though I evidently still have my Ferrerman profile, I can't post gray or as any other profile. To test this, several days ago I created a new email account to see if I could create a new profile- A Noted Observer. I could but I couldn't. They were all over this new one like white on rice. The new profile was accepted but all posts were rejected. With ghosting you don't realize this until you sign out and see that the post you saw was not really there at all. Signed in, you see all your posts but, no one else does. People go on for days sometimes, wondering why everyone is suddenly ignoring them! As a Ferrerman though, if I don't get iconned pretty much before I hit reply, I figure something is up. At least one person- Samgelique- has spent every waking moment of the last five years thinking about FERRERMAN!!!! So, if I don't get iconned, something is wrong. Either Samgelique is dead or I'm banned.

I don't get why but, for some reason they can't whack my Ferrerman profile when I'm not signed in to it? I'm not even going to pretend to understand that but, that's what I hear. Despite what my enemies like to promote, I have rudimentary computer skills. I don't get how Topix' skills can be so lame too. So, until they figure out a way to whack Ferrerman while I'm not signed in, I'm staying signed out. Fuck you, Topix!

I'll be right here. They can't touch this. The legend lives on!