...if it hadn't been for you meddling kids

August 30, 2006 9:26 AM

This stinks (and I know it was deleted), rinkjustice is supposedly raydexter's son. Although that might be true, the posting history in ask.me looks like ray is sockpuppet from the way the dates line up for the questions asked. They both have the same homepage in their profiles, and their answers and writing style line up as well. From his question in ask.me about his dad's comic promotion, it shows that he is involved in the success of the comic.
posted by the giant pill to Etiquette/Policy at 9:26 AM (30 comments total)

And sockpuppets are allowed, although I wish it wasn't so.
The nepotistic element was noted with the post deletion.

There a bit of smoke but I guess I don't see the flames...yet.
posted by peacay at 9:32 AM on August 30, 2006

It stinks that it went down like this because the concept of a candian superhero is hilarious in its own way and I bet someone would have posted it to mefi in a matter of days from projects.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:35 AM on August 30, 2006

Whats wrong, giant pill?

Peace is an essential component of happiness, and Jesus Christ is the author of both.

Maybe if you were in touch with the big JC you wouldn't be having these problems!
posted by prostyle at 9:38 AM on August 30, 2006

It never ceases to amaze me that there a people with nothing better to do than sit around and ferret this shit out.
posted by keswick at 9:46 AM on August 30, 2006

And others with nothing better to do than whinge steadily about the phenomenon.
posted by cortex at 9:56 AM on August 30, 2006

Whinge? Hardly. I am in complete awe of these losers.
posted by keswick at 9:59 AM on August 30, 2006

And others with nothing better to do than chastise the whingers!

(sorry cortex, I like you... but it was irresistable)

Now someone do me!
posted by nanojath at 10:00 AM on August 30, 2006

the concept of a candian superhero is hilarious - mathowie

Hey! You laughin' at me?
*cape flaps in a dashing fashion*
posted by raedyn at 10:05 AM on August 30, 2006

Seems more like he's laughing at Alpha Flight and Wolverine.
posted by Gamblor at 10:08 AM on August 30, 2006

Nobody laughs at Wolverine, bub.
posted by keswick at 10:09 AM on August 30, 2006

Oh, we have better things to do.

We simply choose not to do them.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:10 AM on August 30, 2006 [2 favorites]

Wolverine isn't really Canadian. At least not in the way that Canadians are Canadian.

Alpha Flight is full of geeks in stupid costumes and, yeah, no surprise, they're a bunch of silly Canadians.

But, seriously, Americans should stop mocking our neighbors to the north and instead learn from them. Canadians may be strange creatures, "Bizarro-Americans," but they do have much to teach us about being a responsible and mature country.
posted by nixerman at 10:14 AM on August 30, 2006

rinkjustice is generally dubious, he's a half-arsed bevets-a-like with a weird sideline in bodybuilding potions.

Views on art: People who enjoy this soul-damning garbage need psychological help and must promptly repent and change, giving their lives to Jesus Christ, or else this awfulness will hang around their neck like a millstone at their final judgement.

Advice to unhappy Ask Metafilter questioner: Peace is an essential component of happiness, and Jesus Christ is the author of both. He is the only way to the happiness you crave, as He is the only way to happiness in the next life. This I know and can testify is true.

Advice to someone worried about religion-inspired sexual guilt: Fornication is a grievious sin and an abomination in the eyes of God

Yet more God-bothering: 1, 2, 3.

(Of course, he has every right to express his beliefs, but most of the time he just trots them out inappropriately, and aggressively too, sometimes.)
posted by jack_mo at 10:18 AM on August 30, 2006

nixerman: Wolverine isn't really Canadian. At least not in the way that Canadians are Canadian.

He was born and raised in Alberta. Last time I checked, that was the big, land-locked province between British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
posted by Gamblor at 10:25 AM on August 30, 2006

And others with nothing better to do than chastise the whingers!

And yet others with nothing better to do than mock the chastisers!
posted by solotoro at 10:31 AM on August 30, 2006

Now someone do me!

AND OTHERS WITH NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN SECOND GUESS MY SHINING AND UNQUESTIONABLE WISDOM GUARDS SEIZE THAT MAN
posted by cortex at 10:36 AM on August 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

keswick, I guess I can see your point, but the self-link didn't need much ferreting out in this case. It was pretty blatent. It's kind of a shame, because this seemed like sort of an interesting idea. Would it be alright if somebody (like me, for instance) reposted it for him?
posted by maryh at 10:44 AM on August 30, 2006

I am in complete awe of these losers with their God-bothering and flapping capes.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 10:45 AM on August 30, 2006

I banned both accounts this morning, sorry I didn't send up the BANSIGNAL sooner.

maryh, feel free to repost but the thread might go badly, or it might not. People seem to like that comic, it's a shame that rinkjustice is so adamant about flogging it even further than the rules allow.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:13 AM on August 30, 2006

Every day, in every way, this place goes further down the toilet. Sigh.
posted by ninthart at 11:24 AM on August 30, 2006

Rinkjustice seemly fucked up and responded to his own question under the wrong name, then quickly pointed out that raydexter is infact, his daughter. Since raydexter posted the comic project, I think that it's actually her thats writing the comic. Keep it in the family and all. Anyway, fuckers banned so it doesn't matter anyway.
posted by bob sarabia at 11:28 AM on August 30, 2006

...sorry I didn't send up the BANSIGNAL sooner.



One more vulture bites the dust.
posted by prostyle at 11:33 AM on August 30, 2006

the concept of a Canadian superhero is hilarious

Are there other nationalistic comic superheroes from nations not usually considered threatening? The Argentine Avenger? The Danish Devil? Someone should pull an FPP together, starting with Captain Canuck and branching out...
posted by LarryC at 11:46 AM on August 30, 2006

It obviously broke the guidelines, got deleted, and is not being called out almost 12 hours later.
WTF?
Putting an admission of the complete uselessness of this call out in brackets doesn't mitigate the fact that this MeTa is 100% horeshit..

If I were crankier or more suspicious, I'd suspect pointing out the deletion is just an excuse to get some kicks in at a member whose personal beliefs rubbed some folks the wrong way.


Wolverine isn't really Canadian. At least not in the way that Canadians are Canadian.

I'll bet you live out in, um, central canada, don't you?

Now excuse me, I have to put on my red checkered shirt and go fight another grizzly bear. That's the fourth damn one this week.
SNIKT!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:48 AM on August 30, 2006

When Guardian died because his suit malfunctioned after that big fight, and his wife Heather sees it happen, that was furking awesome comic goodness. But then he comes back because at the moment of death he was zapped to Saturn?

WTF Canadian comic book heroes? Fuck you all with a big stick.

/bitter
posted by bardic at 11:49 AM on August 30, 2006

... is now being called out, dammit.

And horseshit, double dammit.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:50 AM on August 30, 2006

It obviously broke the guidelines, got deleted, and is not being called out almost 12 hours later.
WTF?

It was called "self-linkish" and not a self link in the reason for deletion, so it wasn't clear that they were banned until jess pointed it out. Now it is cleared up.
posted by the giant pill at 1:12 PM on August 30, 2006

I think I have this sorted out...

rinkjustice is Jason Comely, Canadian Mormon and exercise guru.

raydexter is supposedly Jason's daugher Desire Comely: it is suggested (with justification but not "proof", in my opinion) that the account is simply a sockpuppet for Jason. A small amount of research suggests that Desire does exist and is around 16.

Richard Comely is Jason's father, Desire's grandfather, and the artist responsible for Captain Canuck.

The raydexter account posted a project about the return of Captain Canuck, but given that the posting states "Captain Canuck is Canada's favorite comic book superhero and the creation of my father, Richard Comely" it seems clear that this post at the least was made by rinkjustice using his daughter's account.

rinkjustice then promoted the Captain Canuck thread using the rinkjustice account.

Now the promoted FPP is deleted and both accounts are banned.

Any questions?

Doesn't seem quite Christian to me somehow.
posted by nanojath at 2:27 PM on August 30, 2006

Thank... Zod.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 3:45 PM on August 30, 2006

I'm closing this thread now. There is something in the air today making everyone strange.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:55 PM on August 30, 2006