Worst 5 are a bit easier to do than top 5, so I'll start here. (Perhaps the truth is that I'm more inclined to criticise than praise, but anyway!) By the way, I like the way ILD has waltzed into both the best and the worst threads and told everybody who they should or shouldn't be voting for. His sweet exterior belies his inner Nazi. Doc Mac had some good shouts, although I think I will focus on people who have afflicted us with their shitness over long periods rather than fleeting appearances. Kanwar would definitely have made my list if he'd been with us for longer. Similarly Spag Legs, who was an ignorant fuckwit whose inability to distinguish between "of" and "have" (despite me kindly pointing it out to him) was a constant annoyance to me. I'm also going to make a distinction between unpleasant people and shit posters. We have plenty of posters who are perfectly nice people but thick as pig shit. And we've had a number of very good posters who weren't particularly nice. With that in mind, here are my bottom 5:
Nikeser: An ever-present on here back in the day, he was almost inescapable. Knew nothing about anything and demonstrated it with every single post he made. He was the worst kind of thicky in that he genuinely had no idea how stupid he was (Spag Legs fell into this category, too). Makes my top 5 due to length of service and mind-numbing stupidity.
RogerRederer: Spion pretty much summed him up. I'm pretty sure he was the invention of someone, but even so, whoever it was deserves to be recognised as a monumental twat.
Ardja: On most people's list, I imagine.
spider-neil: Like a Jack Russell with learning difficulties. Slow on the uptake and never knew when to let things go. He was ruining threads for years with his drivel. I was a little less than moved by his melodramatic departure.
Dreamy: Spouting nonsense from all corners of the globe pretty much since the site's inception, there's no way I can't include Dreamy. I understand that he's a really nice guy, but that doesn't stop him from being persistently one of the worst posters on the site. The fact that "doing a Dreamy" can be universally acknowledged as suffering from a moment of profound stupidity, pretty much says it all. Sentimentality aside, he has to feature on an all-time worst list for me. His legacy will live on long after he has left.
Honourable mentions:
Fox. Narrowly missed out, largely because he's proved to be remarkably resilient and a genuinely good sport. I actually don't mind him these days, although it still amazes me that he's a middle-aged man. I think he has to be congratulated for having made it this far.
Terrier. My memory is failing me a little, but wasn't he a horrible cunt?
Paddy. Following on from the distinction I made above, he was easily the biggest (real-life, proven) cunt ever to grace the site, but not quite in the bottom 5 posters. If you're reading, Paddy, from whatever moniker you're hiding behind these days, I hope someone has punched you in the face recently.
I'm sure I've forgotten plenty, but that will do until someone reminds of some other bellends.
Nikeser: An ever-present on here back in the day, he was almost inescapable. Knew nothing about anything and demonstrated it with every single post he made. He was the worst kind of thicky in that he genuinely had no idea how stupid he was (Spag Legs fell into this category, too). Makes my top 5 due to length of service and mind-numbing stupidity.
RogerRederer: Spion pretty much summed him up. I'm pretty sure he was the invention of someone, but even so, whoever it was deserves to be recognised as a monumental twat.
Ardja: On most people's list, I imagine.
spider-neil: Like a Jack Russell with learning difficulties. Slow on the uptake and never knew when to let things go. He was ruining threads for years with his drivel. I was a little less than moved by his melodramatic departure.
Dreamy: Spouting nonsense from all corners of the globe pretty much since the site's inception, there's no way I can't include Dreamy. I understand that he's a really nice guy, but that doesn't stop him from being persistently one of the worst posters on the site. The fact that "doing a Dreamy" can be universally acknowledged as suffering from a moment of profound stupidity, pretty much says it all. Sentimentality aside, he has to feature on an all-time worst list for me. His legacy will live on long after he has left.
Honourable mentions:
Fox. Narrowly missed out, largely because he's proved to be remarkably resilient and a genuinely good sport. I actually don't mind him these days, although it still amazes me that he's a middle-aged man. I think he has to be congratulated for having made it this far.
Terrier. My memory is failing me a little, but wasn't he a horrible cunt?
Paddy. Following on from the distinction I made above, he was easily the biggest (real-life, proven) cunt ever to grace the site, but not quite in the bottom 5 posters. If you're reading, Paddy, from whatever moniker you're hiding behind these days, I hope someone has punched you in the face recently.
I'm sure I've forgotten plenty, but that will do until someone reminds of some other bellends.
