The Top Ten Most Notorious Posters in Atlas History - Let's make the list...

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I like making lists of random stuff and I was thinking about what this list would look like.

I think these guys would be HAVE to be on there (in no particular order):

opebo
Bushoklahoma
Alexander Hamilton
Robert Stark/LouDobbs08
JSojourner

Other strong contenders (also in no particular order):

jmfcst
Straha
NixonNow
JJ
BRTD (more so for his early days)
dazzleman
Dave Leip
Xahar
downwithdaleft
Josh22
Simfan
Libertas
Einzige
Link
Killerpollo
prophetman
Sam Spade
Gustaf
Inks (after he became a moderator)
Madhur
LanceMcSteel
Pravada (you could probably group the last three together and put them in one spot)
bgwah/Jesus (more so for his early days)
Statesrights
texasindy
Jamespol
BeccaM
Joe Republic (basically just for the one big incident)
Joe Democrat
HardRCafe
Poundingtherock
JCL
Storebought
Atheist2006
Vegetaboi
Keystone Phil
Reaganfan
nkpatel
pbrower2a
jfern
Krazen
Ogis
Willy Woz
FREEDOMNOTBUSH
Rochambeau
dcunited/cutie_15
kobidobidog
milk and cereal
CARLHAYDEN
Snowstalker
Kalwejt
Mechaman
Oldiesfreak1854
The Obamanation
RickRoll
NewYorkExpress
Derek
DWPerry
Wormyguy
Napoleon
John Engle
mypalfish
nomorelies
politicaladdict
Joshgreen
MikeyCNY
Yates
Joel
Deano

Does anyone remember that creepy libertarian guy from Alabama who I think actually ran for office a few times or that guy who signed up for the forum solely to argue in favor of legalizing beastality? Because I think those guys would be contenders too but I can't remember their names.

Who else am I missing?

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How are you defining "controversial"?  Do you mean posters for whom opinion is highly polarized, like opebo?  Because that's different from the posters who everyone hates (like poundingtherock, who I think is the record holder for highest HP %age in an "opinion of" poll).

I guess I'm looking for people who spark the most conversation/debate and those tend to be people who are either deeply polarizing or strongly disliked. However, a few of the people I listed are very well liked but still managed to get themselves involved in some contentious issue(s).

Also, what was the deal with poundingtherock again?

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I guess the magnitude of actual impact on the forum itself that these posters have had is something that should be weighed particurly heavily, especially when it becomes time to rank the ten who make the final list.

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Okay, I've changed the wording from "controversial" to "notorious". Hopefully that will sit better with most of you guys. (I also gave some consideration to "infamous".)

I also added a whole bunch of names to the list. Some of them were very obvious but only came to me tonight for whatever reason. Some of them were suggestions from you folks. I even opted to put the attention whore submissions into the mix.

I think once we've collected enough names I'll create a poll to determine which names will advance to the top ten list itself.

So do you guys have any more names for me? I'm sure we're still missing some strong contenders.

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Darryl W. Perry

That's who I was thinking of! Thank you!

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Any other submissions? I'll probably create the poll soon.

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Creating a poll on this now probably isn't going to yield very accurate results, since so many posters here now are recent arrivals.  The results will be skewed towards the present and recent past.

You need an expert panel of posters from throughout Atlas history, in order to get any decent results.  Otherwise it'll be like polling the general public with the question "What is the best movie of all time?", and having the top answer be The Hunger Games.  It's not the sort of question that the general public can answer reliably.

I'm not really sure how feasible putting together that panel is considering that a lot of the people who should be on it no longer post here for one reason or another. Plus, the panel would most likely be biased towards much older posters especially considering that many of the older posters on here tend to say things like "2004-2008 was so great on here but f[inks]k everything after that"!

I'm still leaning towards doing a poll. This is basically just for fun anyway. I'll think about it though.

In the meantime, if anyone has any more submissions...

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Is Joshgreen too new for this list? Because he is among the biggest dicks I have ever encountered here.

Also, am I a member of AFI for having 10,000 posts? Or do I also need the 10 year membership (or the third option, the cash ).

Well, he certainly earned his spot on the list tonight!

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Remember Joel? Also Yates needs a mention.

Who was Joel?

Also who was that Ohio Democrat that they banned back in '06?