Woodruff -- Severe Forum Abuse, Flaming [Global issue][Done]

[pimpdave]

You know, it's important to note, that most of us that have been banned for flaming claimed we were "trolled into it", but that wasn't a valid defense. And the mods and admins completely dismissed our appeals to either over turn our bans or deliver "justice" to the "trolls".

Why Woodruff thinks that gives him carte blanche to lose his mind every few days escapes me. If nothing else, maybe this thread will at least serve to make people aware of Woodruff's modus operandi, and will prepare them to not take it personally when he's having yet another meltdown.

[the.killing.44]

LET IT BE KNOWN ARMY OF GOD AND I SUPPORT THIS ACCUSATION

[Woodruff]

I think a brief review of exactly who I have "gone off on" since I posted regarding my students on the 5th of May might prove enlightening, as well as showing the context of what I was responding to. I selected that point because prior to that, my last post was the 20th of April, as I had left the site. I think that anyone in this thread who is honestly interested in the truth and having justice truly be served should take the time to review the following information. The data sample since the 5th of may comes out to 13 pages (egad!), so that should be a reasonable data sample:

Here's the first one:
Oh, I go off, indeed. I go off on pimpdave (surprise!) following his attack against my students and myself:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=144607&p=3155660#p3155660

Here's the next one:
Response to Night Strike making the apparently very surprising point that President Obama does things for political purposes. I responded to Night Strike's use of the word pathetic by stating that it was pathetic that he believed that this was a stunning revelation, knowing the whole time he didn't actually believe that but just wanted to try to score some political points. I don't really think this would be considered inflammatory under normal circumstances:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=144353&p=3157294#p3157294

Another response to (gasp) pimpdave, who is attempting to spread lies about me:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=144607&p=3157989#p3157989

Another response to pimpdave!
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=144607&p=3159699#p3159699

Responding to pimpdave trolling again:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=144927&p=3160353#p3160353

Hey, I found another one that isn't a response to the trolling pimpdave. It's a response to Phatscotty, asking why abusers of illegal drugs would have a desire to hide their addiction. I suggested he might be either trolling or stupid.
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=144779&p=3163706#p3163706

Another for the pimpdave troll:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=144607&p=3166834#p3166834

Another for pimpdave's trolling:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=144607&p=3168192#p3168192

Another for pimpdave's trolling:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=144607&p=3168251#p3168251

That's all, folks...13 pages of posts. Obviously, I have been in a LOT of discussions since that thread was started, some of them fairly heated. But other than my responses to pimpdave's trolling...nothing particularly noteworthy. In fact, I have actually made fun of myself in those very same threads when other individuals have "gotten on me a bit". It is my position that pimpdave is trolling and being intentionally annoying in attacking and harassing me personally. That doesn't necessarily excuse my inflammatory outbursts, but let me ask you this...isn't the whole point of "baiting and trolling" and "being intentionally annoying" being punishable offenses to avoid the inflammatory responses that the baiter/trolling is trying to get out of the individual?

In addition, pimpdave claims I have routinely "gone off on him" when he was posting nothing offensive at all...perhaps he can provide some examples to back up that claim? I can, of course, provide some examples of his responding to completely non-offensive posts of mine with trolling and baiting.

[iamkoolerthanu]

Ok I skimmed through this thread, and I agree that sometimes woodruff can be a bit harsh at times, and is very opinionated

Whether or not he should be punished depends on what the mods think, especially if what he says about already being punished is true


On a side note, why doesn't woodruff know how to respond to more than one person in a single thread? I see this guy double triple quadruple post CONSTANTLY, his post count would be a third of what it is right now if he knew how to quote correctly in one post

Woodruff if you need to be taught how to do it, I can send you a PM.. And I am not being a sarcastic d*ck or anything since I just realized it could come off that way, I didn't know how to quote correctly for quite some time

[Woodruff]

On a side note, why doesn't woodruff know how to respond to more than one person in a single thread? I see this guy double triple quadruple post CONSTANTLY, his post count would be a third of what it is right now if he knew how to quote correctly in one post

Woodruff if you need to be taught how to do it, I can send you a PM.. And I am not being a sarcastic d*ck or anything since I just realized it could come off that way, I didn't know how to quote correctly for quite some time

<laughing> Actually, I have been taken to task a number of times for doing exactly as you're suggesting here, regarding "putting it all into one post"...they claim it makes it too long to follow and they don't like the way the quotes are broken up in that way.

[stahrgazer]

And all of you that are attacking him such as the post by stahrgazer, are doing the exact thing that he is being accused of, FLAMING!

I invite you to find the flame in my post.

I do however very much mind people insinuating that anything I do or say here in any way reflects on my abilities or attitudes as a teacher because that's just plain ludicrous.

It's not ludicrous. It reveals you have a very short fuse, especially if someone dares disagree with you, which is a reflection of how you'd handle being questioned in class.

Your posts also display remarkable eloquence in the area of vitriolic diatribe... but seemingly, only in that area.

Further:

I think a brief review of exactly who I have "gone off on" since I posted regarding my students on the 5th of May

You would post about your students in a public forum?

That's the most telling of all!

I'd like to speak with the educator-wife to know if she finds it appropriate, not to just "de-stress" by cursing crazily in a forum where minors are likely present, but also, to "de-stress" by posting information about her students in a public arena.

I'd thought a student's academia was considered private stuff by most institutions. I'd further thought instructors were advised to keep it private.

This very PUBLIC forum isn't pillow-talk.

I'm quite glad that a person like this wasn't my AFJROTC instructor!!!!

[Funkyterrance]

Ok upon investigating this claim I see that Woodruff was indeed baited. To take a shot at his glee club or whatever is definitely a low blow. Also, the instances of abuse were all in close proximity and were obviously written in anger.
However, I think Woodruff is being a tad naive when he writes that none of his students will ever know of his behavior here. If you are submitting information here and there about your identity on here there is always the chance. While a teacher can get hammered outside of work and technically be at no fault, the fact is that his reputation could be.
In before the lock.
Funky

[jefjef]

Just sayin...

Wow that's fantastic but once again jefjef gets the award for missing the point.

R u sure it is I who missed the point mister go out of his way to bait jj and ramble off topic...

Your CONSISTENTly pointed less out of context points has zilch to do with the complaint at hand. This thread is not about me receiving awards or woodruff proudly displaying his career, the one he constantly mentions in the forums and uses as a credential, but about his many painful and abusive attacks towards pimpdave and others. I too have been a victim of woodruffs personal and abusively vicious attacks. It hurts.

If you feel there have been rules violated by other posters please create a new thread so you can remain on topic in this one.

Just sayin...

[Woodruff]

I do however very much mind people insinuating that anything I do or say here in any way reflects on my abilities or attitudes as a teacher because that's just plain ludicrous.

It's not ludicrous. It reveals you have a very short fuse, especially if someone dares disagree with you, which is a reflection of how you'd handle being questioned in class.

No, it absolutely is not a reflection of how I would handle being questioned in class. A large part of our class involves questioning, because true leadership cannot happen without it.

What my posts reflect is that I don't suffer Internet fools or bullies well. That you believe a persona must be the same online as it is in the real world reflects a serious distortion on your part.

Your posts also display remarkable eloquence in the area of vitriolic diatribe... but seemingly, only in that area.

Interesting, given you personally have complimented my arguments several times in the fora. You must have been mistaken, I suppose.

I think a brief review of exactly who I have "gone off on" since I posted regarding my students on the 5th of May

You would post about your students in a public forum?
That's the most telling of all!

It's "telling" in your mind that I post with great pride about a performance my students took part in? It certainly SHOULD be "telling", though not at all in the way you seem to be implying.

I'd like to speak with the educator-wife to know if she finds it appropriate, not to just "de-stress" by cursing crazily in a forum where minors are likely present, but also, to "de-stress" by posting information about her students in a public arena.

Oh brother...did you even bother to go look at the thread, stahrgazer, or are you just perfectly happy trying to tear me apart in your ignorance?

I'd thought a student's academia was considered private stuff by most institutions. I'd further thought instructors were advised to keep it private.

Why would we be advised not to show off our students' accomplishments? That makes no sense at all.

This very PUBLIC forum isn't pillow-talk.

What? That's your fetish, stahrgazer, not mine.

I'm quite glad that a person like this wasn't my AFJROTC instructor!!!!

Yes, it would be terrible to have your AFJROTC instructor feel pride in you. That would be horrible! I guess I'll mark stahrgazer down as one not particularly interested in the truth.

[pimpdave]

Ok upon investigating this claim I see that Woodruff was indeed baited. To take a shot at his glee club or whatever is definitely a low blow. Also, the instances of abuse were all in close proximity and were obviously written in anger.
However, I think Woodruff is being a tad naive when he writes that none of his students will ever know of his behavior here. If you are submitting information here and there about your identity on here there is always the chance. While a teacher can get hammered outside of work and technically be at no fault, the fact is that his reputation could be.
In before the lock.
Funky

Oh please. I was only returning the favor of telling him that stuff he does is terrible. He's always going on and on about how awful and worthless the things I do are. He does the same thing to other people.

But when he does it, I don't flip out on him. This is the first time I've ever reported him after well over a year of his constantly berating me and reporting me, trying to get me removed from the site.

You might see a bigger picture in recent events, but you don't see the whole one.

[Woodruff]

You might see a bigger picture in recent events, but you don't see the whole one.

No, those "recent events" are the very clear picture of your harassment of me over the last two weeks.

[Funkyterrance]

Duly noted pimpdave, as I told you before I make an effort not to visit the off-topic forum and therefore have no idea what goes on there. I guess it all comes down to whether or not the abuse was bad enough to warrant punishment. From what I can tell there is more than one person who has been the recipient of Woodruff's explosions which doesn't help his case any.

[stahrgazer]

Very simply, woodruff:

If you expect me and any thinking adult who has our children in mind, to respect your abilities as an instructor, then you would conduct yourself as BEST as possible, like you would in your classroom, in places where minors are KNOWN to be present.

Your behavior shows repeatedly: you cannot conduct yourself well in this venue, which is known to have minors, lots of them, present.

This isn't an adults-only site, and it isn't a bar, either.

It's a place for YOUNG and old to play some games.

Your conduct is hardly an example I'd recommend for any student, much less students of a program that teaches noble concepts such as Honor, Esprit de Corps.

MINORS ARE PRESENT HERE.

Half or more of the people you're calling "fucking retard" are probably minors. Awww, a minor taunted you and you had to resort to THAT? It does reflect on your abilities!

If you can't conduct yourself well, here, with minors present and being kids, it DOES reflect on how you'd handle yourself in other places where minors are present, and that includes your classroom.

Suck it up, cupcake, you're not showing your students a good "role model" when you act like you do.

And, btw, without parental permission, it IS inappropriate even to brag about students in public. One principal down here found that out when his 'bragging' took the form of posting a photo in the paper bragging about a team. You see, he'd never had parents "okay" that form of bragging in a public venue. I should say, "ex-principal." Yes, he was fired, for conduct inappropriate because it violated the PARENTS' right to indicate what was and was not acceptable public discussion about the students.

And, that principal didn't even curse publicly.

[Woodruff]

And, btw, without parental permission, it IS inappropriate even to brag about students in public.

That is correct. And of course you presume that I do not have that parental permission...why? Because you seem to enjoy making outrageous assumptions about me based on a game's fora postings.

Did you ever go back and actually look at that thread? No? Because it's much easier to just presume I'm in the wrong?

[Night Strike]

Now this is priceless. The site's #1 troll accusing someone of breaking the rules while getting away with his own incessant trolling.