I rate Varus up whenever I see his posts sub-default (unless they're really, really bad). Reading a thread that's just a bunch of responses to his no-rated posts sucks, although it can be fun sometimes to guess what his posts might have been. I give Varus a lot of credit for the effort he puts in to keeping this place lively; sometimes it seems like he devolves into more of a caricature than a logical, rational being just to keep threads alive (see: his automatic weapons thread).
If Varus is actually a frumpy old lesbian living in Topeka, KS like Anna suggested once, then my hat goes off to
him her for being one of the most epic trolls ever.
Deballic wrote:
I actually find it pretty pathetic that we need *him* to come together. I mean, we still have gbaji...
That's the problem, most of you guys have come together
too much, or at least have exhausted whatever minor political or philosophical differences that you have by hashing them out years ago. I miss those 20 page threads where Smash and Joph used to go at each other arguing about religion, or Anna trying to psychoanalyze BT while he found different ways to get under her skin. Gbaji's too wordy and dry, Varus is too dumb, and Totem's too busy hunting gazelle from his helicopter in Africa to provide good conservative counterpoints for you guys to argue against. We need a good liberal-on-liberal cage match to mix things up a bit.