Gentlemen! Forgive me for butting into your matters but if you want Shane to leave the boards, there's only one thing you have to do, ignore him. That's it, just TOTALLY ignore him. If he makes stupid posts, don't comment on them, if he flames you, pay no attention to him, if he makes a shitty topic for god's sake don't reply to it! He'll go away soon enough if you follow this procedure!
Why? Well, it's come to my attention that, Shane is probably very aware of his extreme unpopularity here, but that's the reason he comes. He's simply an attention whore, but to be fair, it's US who are giving him so much attention in the first place. Whenever I see Shane I'm reminded of the old phrase "No publicity is bad publicity", it rings so true because, he does kinda have it pretty good here!
Think about it, he's probably the worst Gameposter of all time yet he's also probably the most famous. Almost everybody here knows him, from the grasshoppers to the Kung Fu Elvises, and they know him not as "abcwtf" or any of his other aliases but as "Shane". They know him, BY HIS ACTUAL NAME! And everything he does is commented on by somebody here, including myself in this very post! He can just waltz into any topic here and type something like this.....
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.... and somebody is going to reply directly to it. I'm sure he's loving all this attention, I know I would at least, goddamn I'd love everybody here to know me by my actual name and comment directly on every post I make here, but that'll never be!
There was an old saying that I think KurtCobain94 coined on the old Gamepost
"Don't feed the trolls" and I think that's totally what a lot of people here are doing to Shane. By flaming him, you make him feel happy, like he's accomplished his mission. So, if you want rid of this particular troll, then just don't feed him!
I'm not trying to jump on the Shane-Hating Bandwagon here, because although this post may make it seem otherwise, I personally have never cared about Shane. But you guys do so I'm just trying to help, I'm a philanthropist(sp?) baby!
Oh and I have actually made this exact statement before, as some may have spotted, but frankly, more people will read it in this topic heheh! Oh and I don't have a picture of myself to post either, sorry guys!
EDIT:-And I've just realised that I've made the classic Bond villian mistake AGAIN! Goddamn I suck at this!