Hollywood Hulk Hogan has become like an obsessive stalker type who is genuinely unhinged. I will not respond directly to him because it only seems to make it worse, and you already can see that trying to reason or argue with him in reply is pointless. The claim is that he wants to make sure echo chambers don't form on this website but even a cursory glance at his post history can show that it's a transparent facade for his Reddit janny tier mentality and political leanings being his singular motivation, wherein he literally sees anything right-of-center as /pol/ and vaguely views all conservative or Republican anything as some kind of neo-nazi or neo-nazi facsimile. He thinks he has carte blanche to ruin threads and then watch them either empty out of posters (since no one wants to post there anymore) or even see them get locked and/or moved to Spergatory. I don't know why this behavior is tolerated, let alone for its history, but we all should be grateful that Null & Co. aren't quick to reach for ban hammers unlike other sites. That gives us the freedom we can enjoy and I appreciate prioritizing a free posting experience over a stringent, suffocating one. Aside from this, HHH has old-poster tenure from 2013 and he likes to remind people of that constantly like a police officer showing his badge whenever someone remotely mentions how he, by his behavior, seems more fit for Something Awful forums, Reddit or Twitter.
He is not a troll. Trolls do it for fun. He does this with the mind of someone who is a political agent in their head, or like a warden or part of Kiwi Farm's immune system. Some part of his mind thinks he is integral in the self-assumed fight against an invisible enemy of right-wingers trying to corrupt the Farms into /pol/.
He likes causing frustration, yes, but he genuinely has a hero complex and an ego problem--one which was decimated when a couple of posters revealed that he only knows as much as anyone else on many of the subjects he feigned both peculiar experience and knowledge on, particularly Covid.
Note his hostility toward Otterly and Fanatical Pragmatist. That is born from envy. He is an IT guy in a hospital, that's all. From this standpoint he could give his experience as such but instead he wanted to be more than that to users he argued with. He will never be, and as a result he liked the pretense of telling people how he'd been to "the front lines" as he called it. He likes to talk down to others, especially those of the different political persuasion to him, and as such when the presumed box he used to stand on to do so was revealed to just be cardboard his ego was irreparably hurt. The reason I have one of his posts in a pic at the bottom of the OP is for this very reason, because it's emblematic of the kind of troublemakers who want to ruin otherwise reasonable discussion.
If I had known bantering with him in the
"Are you getting vaccinated?" thread six months ago would incite his fixation, and if I had the forethought to not try one last banter on his and my profile (after he started posting for credentials(?) on my profile) to sate his need for attention and see if we could just return to kiwi bantz, I never would have. Now he's outright possessed, repeating himself like a broken record. Hindsight is 20/20
Worse than the banter and worse than undercutting his ego is the fact that this thread has been so effective. Reasonable discussion, decent banter and a stream of experiences and information are continually updated here by kiwis. It is the very antithesis of a hotheaded anti-vax conspiracy theorist thread. The OP alone proves that. I repeat that the thread is great because of the posters therein, both those inclined toward and against the vaccine. Everyone has poured their all into this and your genuine voices are not just appreciated but have even helped other Kiwi to approach this subject with loved ones and not have it turn into nuclear fallout. Believe it or not, you've already done a lot of good, whoever you are and whatever your position on the subject.
HHH hates that. He hates the thread, hates that it's not a volatile hostile spergfest and he especially hates that posters with medical training and experience in this subject post here too. He hates the personal accounts, hates the verifiable information constantly being updated and hates that he can't pin the jackass tail on the thread since no one--until HHH and friends spam and disrupt the thread past its patience--is foremost inclined to a shouting match simply because another has a different perspective.
If this thread belonged in Spergatory HHH would only occasionally come in to dump on it for fun. As-is, this thread and apparently myself by proxy have become part of his obsession.
The fact that the thread had been derailed predominantly by HHH, then had been locked in misapprehension, likely satisfied HHH quite a lot. However the misunderstanding was cleared up amicably and Null unlocked the thread with a fair judgement. This probably has flared HHH's outrage and might compell him to redouble his efforts. As for me personally, I believe
- All this is why he is fixated on my "credentials"
(never claimed to have them; I don't work in medicine. You can look at my post history)
- It's why he is fixated on trying to find a "gotcha moment" with me, like telling people I don't actually live in Anime Tiddies HQ, Australia
- It's why he's doing some weird fail dox thing about saying I'm on welfare
(I might've mentioned being on medicaid once?)
- It's why he's saying I'm "schizophrenic", because he truly is a SA/Reddit/4chan tier poster
(calling someone a "schizo" has become the go-to for left-leaning posters on those sites to signal for others to disregard anything said, though I've seen it from others across the political spectrum on Twitter, too)
And that is why I don't use the term "obsessed" lightly here and I repeated it so much. He really, truly is definitionally obsessed with me to a concerning degree.
All of this is my perspective. The reason I've written it so dryly is because I'm serious. So again, and hopefully for the last time, I encourage
everyone to ignore Hollywood Hulk Hogan. If you believe it appropriate and can justify it only according to the site's proper reasons to report someone, then you can. Certainly do not engage with him, not with banter nor sincerity. His obsessive fixation with me in particular has exploded over the last week and I did not exaggerate when I said he has came to exhibit the earliest signs of being a stalker (I've dealt with such a thing in the past).
Don't let what happened before happen again. Further, you don't want his obsession to glom onto you next.