"The Voice of the Night" - WHY is this person so compelled to make a complete nuisance of themselves in every single thread

I don`t know.

We either! Discuss.

STFU

MARY

Clutch your pearls, ladies, it's the I hate trolls troll.

Suck it up or turn in your gay card, OP

And your point is?

Of all the actual TROLLS to complain about on this site, you're going after VOTN?

I love that poster. Deal with it, OP.

Or can't you handle other people's opinions?

His pussy stinks!

Is that you again, formerly from the deep south, now from Maine?

I thought VOTN left the DL to go to medical school (or something).

For the DUMMY OP

VOTN is a legend and an icon. Pop stars, male and female, still reference her as an inspiration, mimick her style and dance moves and remake her songs. As for her record deals, she LEFT Virgin once the landmark $80 million record deal she signed in the '90s was complete. Also, she ASKED to be let out of her Def Jam contract, but not before giving them a #1 album. So, you see, no one fired her, nitwit. And you're right--she's always had a round bubble butt, and she was known for having one when Kim Kardashian was still just a kid running around in her mommy and daddy's backyard with a pacifier, and J-Lo was just a young, unknown Puerto Rican chica in the Bronx.

VOTN will record when she's ready to record, sweetie. She does not need a label, but she could get signed to one whenever she's ready because she's VOICE OF THE-ACADEMY-AWARD-NOMINATED-100-MILLION-RECORDS-SOLD-EVERY-TEEN-ACT-OF-TODAY-ON-HER-JOCK-FANS-ALL-OVER-THE-WORLD-$150-MILLION-WORTH-MTV-ICON-MORE-BILLBOARD-AWARDS-THAN-ANY-OTHER-ARTIST-SIGNER-OF-TWO-OF-THE-BIGGEST-RECORD-DEALS-IN-HISTORY-MOTHERFUCKING NIGHT.

Any questions?

I like VOTN. I wish more of the authenticateds would return.

Mister Know It All, authenticated.

OP is the type of person that has all but ruined Data lounge. Can't we shoo these feral halfwits back to the imdb boards?

VIVA LA VOICE !

VoTN is in no way a troll. He is just a poster who shares his opinion about things like everyone else, sometimes I agree with him and a lot of times I don't.

The only thing that separates VoTN and most other regular posters here is he is authenticated so you notice all his posts while the rest of us post anonymous.

Seriously OP, that is it, if he was anonymous you would not have thrown your little hissy fit.

Fuck you, OP. You must have a lot of time on your unemployed hands to troll VOTN.

Meh ~

If there's one thing we hate on DL, it's a user who voices their opinion in well-reasoned and eloquent language.

That's just not tolerable.

I'm a fan of VOTN, whom I'm sure will be an outstanding doctor.

I'm a longtime member, but have never authenticated because of jerks who automatically go after anyone who posts under a regular name.

"I'm a fan of VOTN, whom I'm sure will be an outstanding doctor."

Ditto. VOTN, you should film a video of yourself pulling on latex gloves...

OP = gigantic tool. VOTN hardly posts in "every single thread," and to state as much exposes your stupid agenda. Also, when he does post he's perfectly reasonable and non-trollish.

So you, OP, can fuck right off. I know I'd far rather have VOTN posting here than you.

I don't get the hate. Is it normal to hate authenticated Dataloungers? I've only been here 2 years, so educate me.

I like VOTN. Kelt too. Sometimes I agree. Sometimes I don't. I really don't understand the issue.

I told VOTN that his massive muffin top covered the fact that he has a tiny penis and now I have an appointment in the webmasters office in an hour. Should I be worried?

Some of our posters are politically motivated control freaks who can only orgasm when they repeatedly ridicule other posters or speak the name of a certain Democratic president aloud.

I've been posting on DL since 1996 and assholes like the OP are the reason I just use "anonymous."

I used to go by a name but the harassment became too much. Stupid shit, too. Like which bands I liked (at the time), films, etc... posters would just follow me from thread to thread.

Was sorry to read that he has tats.

[quote]Cue the deluge of phantom fans who'll now chime-in on how much they just adore her/him.

OP certainly called that one right. I've been here 10 years and can take or leave this person, but I totally understand why someone would get tired of seeing the same identified personality commenting on nearly every topic. So what? If VoTN is so awesome for posting constant words of wisdom, what's so wrong with the random person pointing out how constant it is?

And yes, my suspicions with most of the posts in this thread aren't based on the number of "fans" speaking up for VoTN, they're from the acid, caustic reactions that seem almost personal. In that, I would suspect many are the same person. Likely from the topic himself. Not buying in to all the rage from supposed troll fans.

Voice of the Night types fat.

VOTN is fine. OP has a boil on his ass.

R11 LOL!

THE VOICE WILL AWAYS BE HEARD ! ! !

Who?

Isn't OP a musical genius? You'd think he'd appreciate a classic voice.

OP is bitter because the only "voice in the night" he's ever heard is his mother tossing food scraps down to his windowless basement room.

R11 best post of the day

R35 gets my [ww] vote

I love Doctor Voice

He is irritatingly pedantic, especially when it comes to medical issues about which he knows very little at this time.

Oh, honestly.

VOTN does not 'troll' and he does not 'make a nuisance of himself'. He likes the Michfest threads and sometimes will come at a topic from a medical perspective.

He comes across as stable, plus he has a husband, so either and both of those factor are - tediously enough - going to fuck off the lunatic fringe element around here.

He or she is a reasonable voice (in the night)

The Voice should preside over the nation!

R28 Obviously, most of the "fans" are trolling the OP. VOTN most likely isn't actually worth getting worked up over one way or another. He seems like a sensible poster.

He's a man, he's gay, and seemingly not a bigot. That should be enough for everyone here.

He's not going to be like SWF and start conversing with himself, via numerous multiple anonymous posts, is he?

So brave, OP, so brave...

What I want to know is WHY you feel the need to get your pussy in an uproar over someone who has the balls to be authenticated user here?

I don't mind authenticated posters, there are so few of them anymore and most don't use their authenticated sign in very often.

What I find odd are the people who aren't authenticated but sign all their posts with a nickname. It's so attention-seeking and try-hard.

Is OP ready to admit the error of his ways yet?

Calm down VOTN.

[quote]I'm a fan of VOTN, whom I'm sure will be an outstanding doctor.

Oh, dear.

Dear OP, anyone who hyphenates the phrase "chime in" needs to be corrected. Get off your high horse.

I would actually like to be friends with VOTN in real life.

OP, when you decide to have that pissed off and toxic chihuahua pulled from your ass you might meet VOTN in the e.r.

R11 gets the WW!

You know, I've complained many times about VOTN - I've come to this: good guy, knows a lot. Yeah, jumps in every three posts with something to say, but we only know that because he's authenticated. I say, leave him alone.

A Doctor? He's just a fekn chiropractor!

Please. I can think of at least ten other posters more annoying than him.

another vote in favor of VOTN!

Stop picking on authenticated posters.

The bullying of posters used to get people banned. It also resulted in a shittier DL because people left in droves because harassment.

There are some fucked up bullies on this site.

I love how everyone has a different reason for why "people left in droves".

Would you date someone who wasn't a DL bully?

VOTN is going to be a DO. Be nice.

I've never found VOTN to be the least bit offensive. He's a DL icon, and I rather enjoy his commentary.

I bet he looks like a booger-eating baboon!

He's a fucking loser who always feel the need to comment as of we've all been waiting for VOTN to have the final word. Just like that dumb fucking cunt Della.

[quote]He's a fucking loser who always feel the need to comment as of we've all been waiting for VOTN to have the final word

That's odd dear, to normal people he is just commenting and does't inspire these defensive feelings.

She's a flyover Frau.

RWOAC get up!!!!

I often enjoy, and find informative, his posts on topics in which I'm interested. While I am not interested in some of the topics in which he excels, such as comic book films, I am not in the least incensed because he contributes. I just skip his posts and others on those topics.

What I most appreciate about his posts are their sense of humor, a quality which he doesn't exhibit in an obvious manner. It's a quiet sort of humor but one that is as funny as many more overt forms on DL. He's shown it in the Sally Ride is dead and certain royal family threads.

I eat shit.

Most of the posts defending this dumb fuck are VOTN posting anonymously and dumping his cookies. We're not stupid.

Girls, girls, GIRLS,,, you're both tiresome cunts

[quote] Most of the posts defending this dumb fuck are VOTN posting anonymously and dumping his cookies. We're not stupid.

I'm not VOTN.

And you are.

The well-reasoned, intelligent, circumspect, nuanced DL poster is suspect, suspicious, bad-mouthed. Damned as everything from unwanted nuisance to high troll crazy.

Flamers, racists, race baters, bigots, and their fan gurls are mostly ignored or cheered on rather than challenged and rejected.

Seems the lunatics are indeed running the DL asylum.

Ehh. She doesn't like me and has tats. That's my prejudice firmly fixed in the leaning towards meh camp.

Have always enjoyed Voice's posts. His thoughts are coherent and generally informative.

[quote]Is it normal to hate authenticated Dataloungers?

Nah, it's like R16 already said: because we have a name to associate with a series of posts, if we find those posts irritating it's easy to think the named person is a troll.

But with anon posters, we can't connect one reply to another unless we just happen to have hit trolldar.

Personally, I don't think authenticateds get hated more often than anons. There are quite a few people who insist every damn authenticated is a "DL icon" or some such nonsense, then they go into overdrive defending them. It's just as childish as the people who get bent out of shape just at the sight of an authenticated.

Besides, there are tons of "I hate the X troll" or "I hate the X threads" posts, so I don't really see the difference between those and the "I hate this authenticated" posts.

VotN is an Aspergers-riddled, Wikipedia-addicted cry for attention. Pity it but, for the love of God, don't summon it.

Hey OP...

Light a grease fire and then jump in.

Long, long timer here. VOTN is much like Charlie. Overly opinionated with quite an inflated sense of himself.

That being said, these last couple of years his meds seemed to have stabilized. During and for a few years after his suicide attempt, posted here in real-time, if you can believe it (how's that for living out loud attention whoring!), he was just a manic mess, rarely missed a single thread and very much with his own opinion that all of this shit mattered, like it was real and vitally important that he be heard. I guess he really, REALLY needed friends and thought he'd make them here. That's sad.

These days he seems much more stable.

Shaming mental illlness! That must make you so very fucking proud of yourself, R79. So very proud.

I find many of the violent responses to OP to be suspiciously personal.

My guess is that the OP hit a nerve with this person and he/she is now posting dozens of replies in retaliation.

But that's just me, I could be wrong.

All I need to know about him is that he wanted to hang his state school diploma in a public place in his house. That told me everything. Tacky small town gay!

VOTN went to William & Mary (!). Based on my experience, they're all tedious know-it-alls with psychological issues.

OP is Kirker.

PS: I strongly suspect VOTN is OneThoughtfulCritic (or whatever that overly earnest Aspie bitch's name is).

Julie told the OP that VOTN was a shill for the TV show and Christina Aguimallera's dresser.

I, for one, miss his posting while in school.

[quote] very much with his own opinion that all of this shit mattered, like it was real and vitally important that he be heard.

R79, you have just described EVERY FUCKING BITCH THAT HAS EVER POSTED ON DATALOUNGE.

Do you have a substantial argument to make here, or are we just waiting for Act Two of The Cunt Show?

OP, VOTN does nothing of the sort.

I look forward to his posts. Unlike most of the DL imbeciles like you (really, there are a lot on here), he is smart, thoughtful, thought provoking, reasonable, mature, and always a gentleman.

VOTN was MIA for a few months while he was in school and I missed him. I'm glad he's back.

Now, OP, what do we do to make you disappear, forever?

r89 = newbie.

Anyone who's been on DL for a reasonable amount of time has witnessed one of VOTN's psychotic breaks, attention whoring grand standing, or suicide sideshows. They get tiresome after awhile, believe me. And, one day, you'll be tired of it too.

Guess who R88 is....

R90, I'm not a newbie. I've been on DL for about 4 - 5 years. Never witnessed those things or seen even a hint of that behavior in VOTN's posts

OP - why aren't you authenticated?

I enjoy VOTN quite a bit, if only to see a familiar name once in a while. I don't see him on every thread by any means and I don't find his posts have any sort of "know-it-all" authority vibe. So if he has some medical knowledge, why not share it? Somebody here knows something besides Valley of the Dolls quotes? There's room for him.

I wish more users would authenticate, but OP clarifies why they don't.

The site was better when more posters were authenticated. But, as in this thread, they just got torn down until almost no one authenticated any more.

Anyone consider OP is VOTN?

Or, R94, because the site stopped allowing authentication. A long time ago.

I wish r90 hadn't gone there but it is true.

Wouldn't it be funny if OP was VOTN mind fucking us all.

R95, ughhh you beat me to it.

R91, R88 is me, and I'm not VOTN.

Sorry, fail. Try again.

[quote]Never witnessed those things or seen even a hint of that behavior in VOTN's posts

Well then you're extremely lucky and I understand why you don't think VOTN is a toxic presence.

But just because you're oblivious to his mental issues and vile behavior doesn't mean they don't exist.

He's poison. Pay attention.

And then R90/R101 breaks into her number:

I don't like any of the authenticateds or any of the "named" posters. They develop fan clubs among the general posters, and all of them are attention whores who derail threads by over-posting and over-sharing.

I like VOTN!

Does TVON have asperger's? He always seems to not get things. Even when he is kind of right, he is also kind of wrong.

[quote] I don't like any of the authenticateds or any of the "named" posters.

How pedestrian.

Why are you so bothered OP? Some of the best comments come from the regulars who have been around a while.

I'm sure that Voice is a nice person, but whether you choose to admit it or not, he DOES tend to "own" threads in reply after reply, constantly correcting other people. "No, it's actually a...." And I'm sorry, but his body of knowledge just isn't that unique. He hijacks ANY comic thread or comic movie thread as if he were the only one who read comics or understood the industry in any way. The same with fashion, and certain political issues. I'm glad he's smart, but he sure as shit thinks the rest of us are fucking idiots.

Kudos to anyone who has the balls to post with a recognizable name or authenticated log in on this site. As is evidenced in this thread, they open themselves up to the vile criticism that so many posters mistakenly refer to as 'pointless bitchery'. It isn't.

I used to be an authenticated poster - some posters here used that to find out where I lived, worked, and so on and POSTED it all here.

So although I won't give authenticateds TOO much credit - I mean, come on, you ain't shit - I will say that yay, facing the crazies here with anything like your real face is scary.

In the old days there was a field to post our email address.

Is this the same mentally ill OP who does all the threads bitching about trolls invading her fan girl threads? Yawn. I don't think this is the place for her.

The schoolyard bully element out in force here, whose self-appointed role is to cut down any tall poppies.

[quote]The schoolyard bully element out in force here, whose self-appointed role is to cut down any tall poppies.

"School yard bully"? "Tall poppies"??This is a fucking gossip website, Mary. Not playtime for Mommy's Little Angel in elementary school.

If you can't be around people who might challenge your perceptions, then perhaps you should separate yourself from adult interactions and online communications.

Anybody who has to authenticate themselves on what is almost exclusively an anonymous board is clearly looking for attention. Let's just be honest about that.

VoTN, has added great things to various discussions. Not questioning that at all. But the incessant answering of questions about his personal life from fangirl trollinas really seems to be a bit much.

Looks like Deep South/Maine is back clamoring for control

[quote]Anybody who has to authenticate themselves on what is almost exclusively an anonymous board is clearly looking for attention. Let's just be honest about that.

Exactly.

I have zero sympathy for people who insist on signing their posts and then get shit when they act like assholes.

There used to be quite a few authenticated posters here. Now you see why there aren't.

[quote]Anybody who has to authenticate themselves on what is almost exclusively an anonymous board is clearly looking for attention. Let's just be honest about that.

B-I-N-G-O! And that attention only intensifies the more they post in a given time period and the more they choose to post within a particular thread.

I was authenticated once, too. You don't have to post under your name each time and your membership and ability to start threads and post during primetime is unaffected by whether you post under your authenticated name or not.

So posting under an authenticated name multiple times in a single thread or across multiple threads in a short period will attract attention, not all of it positive.

Some people sign their posts as a humorous coda to what ever point they are making. Some of them are very clever. Obsessing over it is just.....weird. As is the need to run off all the old timers here. All this repressed anger over inconsequential things sounds mental. Some of you really need to lighten up. And get laid.

R120 wins.

R120, that's a completely different situation from using a single authenticated name every time you post. I would hope that you could see the difference.

And I get laid plenty, thanks. I'm a DL old-timer as well.

Haven't read this thread but agree that VOTN is a gasbag with nothing of interest to add. I was really enjoying the HRC vs Michfest thread before he shit it up. It was one of the better trans discussions we've had around here.

The point I am making is that I don't think YOU see the difference, r122. Your response to my post is tit for tat childish. And sounds personal. You seem to take this place way too seriously. Also my point;)

Again, I suspect two-thirds of this thread is VOTN posting over...and over...and over..and...ovah.

Forget it OP! This is not worth your time, focus on something that is constructive, that will help you in your life. Don't let this person bother you.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.....

Okay, VoTN at R124.

Some authenticated posters could afford to take a page from people like JohnEric and kcguy...I've been here 10 years and neither one has ever been anything but likeable. ayb isn't authenticated, but he always signs his posts...and proves you can be equal parts likeable and controversial.

I'm more sick of the cunts here who whine and object to every little whim, post and conversation.

That's 1000 times more tiresome.

And when VOTN has finally had enough of this place, or chooses to post unauthenticated, we'll have a thread started by someone who writes: "I miss VOTN. WHET to Bengali in Platforms, Arroz Con Pollo and Brown Eyed Girl?"

I have nothing against authenticated posters, but I think having a name allows people to feel like they know you a little too well.

I like VOTN's posts. He's missed the mark occasionally and I'm sure I've given him a hard time about something he's said in the last 100 years we've all been stuck in this digital hellhole, but I like him nonetheless. Certainly more than the assholes complaining about him.

I eat shit.

everyone of us needs to hate fuck him so even the thought of data lounge makes his anal canal just collapse.

R131, I don't miss any of those people. The point is to be witty, not to build a following. I respect that DL is still the same shitty site it was before social media blew up. Yeah, we're flooded with trolls, but so? Some of them are so stupid in their rage they're a lot of fun. But authenticateds are fine - unless they appoint themselves some sort of final authority on things, or start throwing that "weight" of "seniority" around.

LOVE YOU VOTN.

This is so sad to me. I love reading The Voice of the Night's posts. But I'm afraid now that no one will ever dare to post as a named poster we get to know again. And I wouldn't blame any one for making that decision.

Who would give a shit if we had no authenticated posters? Is this really the kind of place where we "know" each other?

[quote]He's not going to be like SWF and start conversing with himself, via numerous multiple anonymous posts, is he?

Kelt did that a few months back, before he understood troll-dar. Kelt said some wonderful things about Kelt.

Fans should know the price he pays.

Voice of the Night (authenticated) is the biggest star DL's got. Ever had, and OP wants to bury him alive!

Why can't OP give Voice of the Night (authenticated) the respect he's entitled to? Why can't he treat him like any stranger on the street?

These kinds of anonymous attacks are spineless shit-talking. It takes some courage to post with authenticated name. To me personally Datalounge's strong point is the anonymous posting but I still appreciate guys who authenticate.

I don't remember ever having problems with VotN's posts. He seems pretty grounded. It's the right winger gay-haters we should have problems with, or any other huge trolls. OP is trying to force authenticated people go anonymous or just to try to get them out completely.

OP is just jealous. Probably sorts potatoes for a living and VOTN corrected him because OP says you can get rabies from cotton candy.

I like Voice of Night. He is knowledgeable about science and science fiction. There is difference. Being first woman in space, of course, I care more about science but that Voice of Night, he make me laugh! With his talk of comic books and interstellar travel. Everyone else can kiss my old bum!

There should be a show about him.

*ominous music*

*VOTN turns dramatically towards camera*

"This is...The Edge...of Voice Of The Night!"

[quote]It takes some courage to post with authenticated name.

No, not really. Many of the worst trolls we ever had over the years were authenticated. And may I remind you, he's not posting with a real name.

Aaaand DL's entire community is based on the ability to post anonymously. You're saying those of us who use the community as it was intended are cowards as compared to VotN, and that's bullshit.

Hating an authenticated just because he has a userid is weak, but lauding him as some kind of saint is equally weak, you know.

Oh jeez

Voice of the Night (authenticated) is the greatest. I eagerly await his bon mots. He's delightful and gives DL "tone."

I totally agree with R146, although I'm a bit worried it might be MHB.

I met him once. Don't turn your back on him, he fucked my dog. I swear to god. He likes em short and wirey.

Since OP's dreadful post we have seen, throughout Datalounge and around the interwebz, an overwhelming expression of sadness at VOTN's disparagement.

We have all been trying, in our different ways, to cope. It is not easy to express a sense of loss, since the initial shock is often succeeded by a mixture of other feelings: disbelief, incomprehension, anger and concern for those authenticated who remain.

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as a princess and as a Tesco opener, I say from my heart.

First, I want to pay tribute to VOTN myself. He is an exceptional and gifted Aspie (but aren't they all according to their mothers?). In good times and bad, he has never lost his capacity to pontificate and correct, nor to discourage others with his coldness and callousness.

I admire and respect him, for his energy and commitment to facts, and especially for his devotion to superheroes.

This week at Dataloungeland, we have all been trying to help VOTN come to terms with the devastating loss that he and the rest of us have suffered at the hands of OP.

No one who knows VOTN will ever forget his posts on DL. Hundres of others who never met him, but feel they know him through his posts, will remember him.

I for one believe that there are lessons to be drawn from his life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to his posts as expressed in this thread. I share in your determination to cherish his memory.

This is also an opportunity for me, on behalf of Tesco, and especially Marvel and DC, to thank all of you who have worm costumes, posted replies, and paid your respects in so many ways to a remarkable person.

These acts of kindness have been a huge source of help and comfort and revenue at the tune of $18 per person to Mediopolis.

Our thoughts are also with his medical school colleagues and the families of those who know him personally for whom his time on DL must have been a respite. I know that they too must have suffered from his physical presence and, if DLers, from what has happened since last weekend, as they seek to heal their sorrow and then to face the future with his sulking countenance.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at this thread, and gratitude for his continued presence on DL (future success of suicide attempts notwithstanding).

It is a chance to show to the whole world the Datalounge united in pointless bitchery.

May those who post rest in continued guilt and shame and may we, each and every one of us, thank Dorothy for someone who made many, many people bitter.

I want a worm costume r151.

Worm or worn? If the latter, they are sold at Tesco both with VOTN's "stains" and without. Now off to the till with you to purchase.

Anne is a bossy top.

VOTN gives me great comfort knowing I am safe at home among the dysfunctional DL family members.

OP, I disagree completely. I find Votn's posts fascinating and intelligent. I've just heard of him in the past 2 years, though, so can't comment on his posts before; posters said was disturbed. If so, he certainly has come a long way; bravo!

R146, I never said he's a saint, and you know it. What I meant with courage is that even though he's not using his real name he's making himself identifiable with a name that links all his posts together. He's decided to let people see what he's like through his thoughts and some of the real life things from his life he's posted.

And everytime he voices his opinion as authenticated he knows that assholes like OP are there to laugh at him. So posting with signed name IS courageous however you try to spin it.

This place is very different from other forums where you have to register a name because there your posts are always identifiable. Here you can be a complete shithead as anonymous and get away with it unless you happen to personally insult owner's beliefs.

Signed posts make you a target instantly to a pack of hyenas. How is that not courageous unless you are using your authenticated posts only for trying to rile others up, which VotN is not doing. So yeah, I don't think he's a saint but I still respect him a lot more than you anonymous R146.

R157, I get that you want to make him out to be a freedom fighter, but given that at least half of these posts ARE him, try to dial it back a tick, dear.

[quote]But I'm afraid now that no one will ever dare to post as a named poster we get to know again.

You sound batshit insane.

[quote]It takes some courage to post with authenticated name.

As do you. It's a pseudonym. There's nothing courageous about it.

[quote]he's making himself identifiable with a name that links all his posts together.

There's still no risk in this so it's hardly courageous.

What it really is, as others have said all along, is attention-seeking and distracting, especially when posting heavily and dominating a thread.

The reality is that if you post what you really believe in (meaning that you're not creating a fake persona with fake thoughts) you put your self out there. If people start mocking those thoughts all the time of course it hurts because they are not mocking the pseudonym but the real feelings and the ideas the person has wrote down then and earlier. When you're posting anonymously there's no connection to your other posts.

If you can't understand that I seriously wonder if you are capable to feel anymore.

R158, I obviously don't see him as any kind of freedom fighter since this is just an anonymous board where 90% of the posts are complete drivel and weak bitching about things no one really cares about. These witch hunts of authenticated people makes me wonder what are the reasons behind them. Not that I really care what R158 or R159 think, though.

"If you can't understand that I seriously wonder if you are capable to feel anymore."

OMG, MARY!

Some people take Datalounge WAYYYYYYYY too seriously.

[quote]Not that I really care what R158 or [R159] think, though.

Yes. Of course you don't.

R163, well I meant that I don't REALLY care that much what they think. When I reply to them I also reply to the whole board because I want to say what I think about the matter. When the board is anonymous it's hard to get riled up with just another anonymous bitch bitching about something. But obviously I've chosen to post here because I like the anonymity.

Sadly, the demonic, diseased cunt OP seems to have driven VOTN underground, as he hasn't posted much since this all happened.

[quote]Sadly, the demonic, diseased cunt OP seems to have driven VOTN underground, as he hasn't posted much since this all happened.

Well thank fuck for that.

R165 isn't he in medical school? He popped up last year at this time and said he was 'signing off' until Christmas break. He's probably back in school.

It's a small wonder he didn't pop in here every other post correcting everybody's grammar.

R167 - no way he is in medical school.

He's a doctor-to-be.

He likes to be helpful.

He started school again a couple weeks ago.

His husband works some mid or low-level bank or local govt job and I think they get assistance from the school, but knowing New York rent I have no idea how that's enough.

He is at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO school, not MD) in NYC.

I'm familiar with names; but I'm not familiar with the overall postings of any one member of Datalounge.com. OP suggests that anyone here following any one member's postings, historically, has some worthy relationship. I look at Datalounge.com as an anonymous playground for LGBT persons, mostly attracting homosexual men, for their personal entertainment (along with some insights).

Like all great stars, Voice of the Night (authenticated) is maintaining a dignified silence. Can he be reached for comment about this vicious, mudslinging overkill?

As Joan Crawford said: "Let people who need publicity say those things."

Hahahaha, i love you R171.

I don't always agree with VOTN and agree that sometimes he can be a bit preachy but that's a minor issue. He's one of few DLers who still identify themselves and I respect that. I was authenticated for years and finally got tired of being harassed by trolls on this board.

I was happy for him when he got accepted into a school for DOs because I agree with their practice and always choose a DO as my PCP. I'm disappointed that his school seems to be a conservative DO school that doesn't believe in OMM or traditional medicine (aka alternative medicine).

I'm also disappointed in where VOTN goes to school, his personal decisions enormously impact my life.

I've always enjoyed Voice's posts -- they're intelligent, articulate, and I'm always amazed at his breadth of knowledge (believe he's a librarian). All power to him and I hope this idiot thread doesn't prevent him from posting any longer.

He went to a decent school for undergrad...surprised his ego allowed him to go into serious debt just to attend a diploma mill. Touro? Seriously?

Getting into medical school is insanely competitive, DOs will still be physicians.

I don't doubt that DOs are just as competent as MDs...I read the recent article in the Times that says as much. But VOTN seems like a smart guy, so I'm curious as to why he's attending a school with very lax academic standards and a piss poor reputation. If you're going to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to attend medical school, you should at least try to get into the best one possible (at least Top 100 nationwide).

I am shocked that this thread still exists and hasn't been FF'ed.

If that's true, it would explain the few medical mistakes I've seen him post on DL.

I'm the poster above who always chooses DOs for PCPs. They do everything an MD does, and beyond that they're trained to do physical manipulation. They also tend to be more open to alternative healing.

[quote]I'm also disappointed in where VOTN goes to school, his personal decisions enormously impact my life.

His personal decisions have an impact when we can't have a thread where we talk about something as basic as a neti pot without VOTN being all over the thread telling people never to use them. He finally backed down and now all he does is post dire warnings about water containing microbes, as if anyone would use tap water.

It's a diploma mill, but who cares! I live in New York now!

Dontcha just hate people who hate people?

Touro grads get decent, not great, internships/residencies -- on a par with the top three Caribbean allopathic schools. I know that's "damning with faint praise" but VotN will do fine if he can graduate (the non-pass rate at Touro is pretty frightening).

My family physician from the '70s to the '90s was also a DO and he was outstanding. People in my little town cried when he retired and moved away.

He was quite competent with allopathic medicine, but his prescription for my mom when my siblings and I had a head cold for weeks in our temporary house was to wipe down the window sills with a solution of water and bleach. Within hours, our stuffy noses and sneezing went away. He also fixed my dad's back with one adjustment.

Because there's no bigger Hollow Weenie than VOTN,

Ba-dump-bump!

I miss Voice of the Night! Whatever happened to him?

Miss him too!

R151 one of the funniest posts I've ever read! Brava Princess!