jayde, report recieved and dealt with. Ok, so:
Moderation:
Ghost: You opted to double down, and it earned you warning number two. Everyone has explained what is wrong with post 41, and the sentiment is clearly a sign of ill-advised social interaction. Not every matter is a measure of who is worthy of respect on an intellectual level, or lack thereof. Especially! something of this magnitude, or definite lack thereof.
If someone is insulting you, insulting them back does not make you any better. Do you have to overcompensate and be a generous angel? Hell no. But you also must make a dignified response. Attack the stance, not the person.
Modding over. Rather than flaming, maybe try a game or two. I hear this one is pretty good.

Kinda funny how a topic regarding haircutting, which I just had, btw, resulted in someone getting 2 warns straight in a row. Well, I guess, the second one is on his own stupidity, but still. kinda funny to think about. Usually its topics about major people leaving the community or something that causes these kinda situations, not a dude asking for help to keep himself clean and human lol.

all right, several points.  you guuys, all of you suddenly became   psychological councelers with no. degree. None of you are remotely qualified, especially not on a  public forum  to make determinations on a person's  social or any other personal skills.   That is simply a fact. And the fact that some  people doing the same were the same people who turned right around and accused me of being an armchair biologist even though I made no such claim is fucking hilarious and ironic. Also the funny thing is same people thing themselves the most intelligent in the world  just because they happen to write some code. How a person acts on a forum versus in real life are two very different things. And I stand by what I said, on a public forum and most professional environments with a rivalry between everyone, being a respected or feared person is very much preferable to someone  noone takes seriously and walks all over. GCW, you accusing me of being a bully while you started this shitstorm? That is ironic too. A bully is someone like you, who attacks everyone left and right, not someone who is polite until someone walks up and punches them in the face. I think it would take a real bully to give you a bloody beating and put you in the hospital for you to learn and realize what a real bully is.
Oh also, academic intelligence is a bullshit term too. There is no such thing as academmic intelligence, go read through all of the theories of intelligence, I have, and you won't find such a term. Iether you have it, which can be based on some tests, which have problems, or you don't, or you fall somewhere in the middle.

Well looks like someone is quickly on the path to a ban.

Thing is, its pretty easy to get upset. Shit happens, you feel like you're attacked or whatever, and you lash out. But then, after the first warn, you literally come back, with a stronger burning passion, and get warned again. Like, how does one do that? If you're as smart and well-educated as you claim to be, then you'd make out just how stupid you're actually portraying yourself to be. I mean come on, its not cute or funny. Its just stupid. Also you claim that nobody in here has a degree, for your knowledge, 49, from what I remember is a therapist. Don't go asuming like you're the only one on here with a college education.

I too have a degree in the IT world

I'm not going to go diagnosing you psychologically, Ghost. I care about your actions, not your diagnosis.
Do you exhibit this behaviour in the workplace? Do you have a job? Honest question there, that's not a jab. In my admittedly limited personal experience, doing what you're doing on this forum in a professional setting will get you fired, perhaps even sued for harassment if you go far enough. Doing it to a friend will get you kicked to the curb. Doing it to a romantic partner will get you dropped like a hot potato.
Nobody's saying you should be a doormat. But fear? Seriously? You want people to be afraid of you? I have news for you, pal. I have never been afraid of you, and I'm never going to be. What's more, I guarantee you that 100.0% of the people on this forum do not fear you, and I'd wager that most people on the forum now also don't respect you. So you're failing on both counts.
Blustering and attacking are not the way to earn respect. And in order to wield fear like a weapon, you actually have to possess the ability to do stuff that frightens people. And I gotta tell ya, yelling on an internet forum doesn't count.
Look, I'll level with you. In my time here and elsewhere, I feel like I've occasionally laid some pretty righteous verbal beat-downs on people. I have done so as a means of educating people, protecting people and, yes, to some extent, making people feel ashamed for their behaviour if it's bad enough. You know what I've never, ever thought, no matter how rough I get? I've never once thought that these folks are suddenly going to respect me, or that they're going to fear me. I earn respect by actually being a decent human being, and I view fear as counterproductive. The Jayde who showed up here on the forum, got hung out to dry in his first week and made some truly awful decisions may have appeared to have been trying to govern through fear, but even then, that was not my intention, even if it seemed otherwise.
tl.dr: even for your stated aims, Ghost, you're failing miserably. My advice: quit while you're still only moderately behind. You still have time to salvage your reputation. I think it starts with an apology to the community. Of course, if you really don't give a rip about how you're perceived here, then you're just going to go on doing what you do, and we'll see the end of you before much more time has passed, I bet.

Good, if you don't care then leave. Everyone wins. You win because you don't have to deal with us. We win because we don't have to deal with you.

But no matter what you call this, it's a dick swinging contest. If we made this about physical strength rather than intelligence, the result would be the same. DO you really think you'll shatter my world view if you prove yourself to be to be more intelligent than I? I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you probably are.

So now what. What do you have left to hold over me. I've given you what you wanted, so now what? Are you feeling just a little unfulfilled now? Did you want to drag me through the muddy streets, beat it out of me? Was it insufficient to the primordial rage bubbling up from a well deep within yourself?

How does it feel to know that you no longer have a card to play against me? I gave you what you wanted to take from me by force, and now you're standing there and you don't know what to do, do you?

Your veil of politeness lifted anytime that someone dared to challenge you. Anytime someone would make a rebuttal to one of your points, it started slipping up and away. Now that we see who you truly are, any illusion that others saw can easily be dispelled.

So here you are, naked and seething before us, the savagery that can no longer be contained is written all over your face. You are old, wizened, and your eyes are sunken in because the rage that you hold has eaten you and aged you. It has weakened you, and you hold your fists up, shaking them. But your hands are hard and leathery, and is that a tremble we see?

You have no power over us and you never have. Your deep-seated anger bubbles and boils, and spills out of you like magma running down the face of a volcano. The choice is yours, but you should probably make one. After all, how undignified is it to be standing here in front of all of us, tiny fists quivering, eyes ablaze with hate and tear drops running down your cheeks.

@62 Then why go through all this trouble of fear and respect. That makes me think you do care. I'm confused. @67 Now now. I think we get the picture. That being said, this really has gone off the rails. As far as haircuts go, I never have cut my  own hair. I suppose I could give it a go. I don't know. Anyone get any kind of fulfillment out of it?

Lol Connor, like the reference.

and  Jayde, you keep wondering wwhy  people kept  asking you to resign. Could  it just be that your tone and  attitude towards others  is errogant and self righteous? The forum is supposed to be a reflection of the real world, but it is not. If GCW acts and talks the way he does in rl, he's going to have very serious issues, and when someone talks like that to me, and comes in with guns blazing, they get a response which is similar. I have never in my life seen someone display such a high level of assholery. Seriously like  in real life the natural  level of assholeness is something like 0.1% or so, but here it goes up to 15%.  And the moderators seem to love reading flame wars, or topics like  this. This thread should have been locked long ago. Also, intelectuality and my degree are totally irrelevent to this discussion until GCW decided to mix it in.