People ask why more actors do not come on the boards and why they are not more fan friendly.
He is an example of a message that we get in our Private Message folders. This is from someone who has no patience for actors who do not respond within 20 minutes of a post. She doesn't realize that we don't have time to sit at our computers all day waiting for a question. She also doesn't realize that after recieving messages like this maybe we choose to ignore that particular persons questions.
Here it is.

From: "a regular poster"
To: Chief Tyrol
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:47 am
Subject: Let's get it done then....
I declare you an enemy of myoho the The Mystic Law, the force that binds all together. I declare your buddha nature will not be manifest on this planet, unless you find another of my faith to help you but not in this lifetime. Pray to who and what you wish, but they will not be answered.[color=darkblue][/color]

A little creepy?
I think so.
Make me wanna come back?
Nope

I should have stated this originally.
I in no way blame the site or admin people.
I have been treated with the greatest of respect and support by the admin people at mediablvd.
they are tremendous.
I posted this on several sites just as an example of what we deal with at times.
It is not really a huge deal to me but I know of many people who would rather just not deal with this kind of $*#& at all.
chat soon

Like I said before I am thnkful for two things. 1. That you come here to post at all and 2. she wasnt twins

hey aaron well i hoppe that that doesn't put you off coming to this board i know a lot of people realise that actors are buzy people and cant come to boards often

hope you come back

lizzi

They should simply be banned.

I am going to have to agree about banning. That is creepy. And very wrong to send something like that in a PM to an actor who has been more than friendly and gracious when he had no need to be.

Aaron, if you are still there, I am sorry you had to go through a creepy fan experience... again. Thank you for the time you spend with us, it is appreciated by everyone else, believe me!

Just don`t get it????

Aren`t we all really just creepy weirdo`s?

I know I am, I just don't actually let anyone see it.....

You, too?! LOL... there is a difference between being a creepy weirdo & being a SCARY creepy weirdo... or at least that is the theory that lets me sleep at night...

Hey, Chief...uh, Aaron...uh, dude -

Sorry to see you've been suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous a$$clowns. I was made aware of your latest tribulations by the postings of other fans on the official SciFi bboards. Sorry to hear it. Just so you know, my wife has - in the past - studied some of the Wicca teachings and philosophies (as a scholar, not as a practitioner), and when I asked her what all the crap that was posted meant, she replied, "it means that she's insane." My wife was assuming the offender was a woman. So there. 'Nuff said.

...and hey, just as an aside, thought it was pretty cool to see you as a Goa'uld on an old Stargate eppy. Wasn't aware you had been on the show. Good on ya.

By the way, love your work on Galactica. Keep it up.


- T

You know what? This just recently happened at some Turkish board I'm on for an actor (yes je suis Turkish) and the guy was nice enough to let us email him but some freaks not only sent him emails with some very inappropriate questions but sent him horrible emails when he didn't reply straight away.

Now that is no way to treat someone who doesn't even HAVE to chat with you in the first place. I'm sure actors have better things to do and are quite busy. It's very self involved to think that they constantly check their emails desperate for some communication with a fan! They have a life outside of acting too so I'm sure they have other mail to deal with.

Now the actor has requested we don't email him for the time being but he was still very nice about it. And it's a shame for the fans who respect the actors, we miss out.

Silly fans... they need their own site... "Crazy People Without Lives".

Yep, Aaron can certainly do without those crazy fans who stalk him at the airport.......... I was as surprised to see you as you were to be recognised! In my defense I do work there and was on my way to work but seeing you made my day so much sunnier

Oops, gone now....

Hahaha, no need to be touchy Aaron, I'm sure it's just some crazy little voodoo midget which you can easily disembowl with a spoon or not-so-easily buckwheated with those big assed boots of yours.

I would actually love to see you do that. While smoking a cigar and carrying an sawed-off shotgun... in a movie offcourse... That would rule!

I knew it!!!! Running around Gatecon last year without any shoes on, riding on Dan's shoulders. I just knew you were a weirdo


Rants and Raves of a Mystified Lesbian

Bloketu

The problem, as I see it, is that the internet allows the mentally and emotionally unstable to "reach out and touch" people whenever they wish, with the click of a mouse. And especially where TV and motion picture folk are concerned, that means every closeted freak and goofball in the world who gets hung up on an actor or director or producer, can potentially turn the targeted individual's inbox into a very disquieting place.

I work full-time on First Hill in Seattle and go to school down the street at Seattle Central Communi(st) College, and ran into this when I started counter-protesting the anti-military protests and the abuse of recruiters by students and other "activist" citizens.

Now, before I go on, I just want to say that I don't really mind people who are against U.S. troops being in Iraq or who dislike or even hate George Bush. My wife is one of them. But when people start picking on ordinary military folk, like recruiters, who have nothing whatsoever to do with U.S. foreign policy, that's when I get mad. Abusing recruiters, vandalizing recruiting centers or ROTC facilities, this kind of idiotic crap is beyond the pale, and there is no call for it, and as an Army Reservist I feel it's my duty to speak up and speak out against this kind of thing when it happens in my neck of the woods.

Anyway, a very active anti-military guy eventually wound up over at my message board with one of his buddies, and together they made for an interesting couple of weeks of "conversation": long anti-military harangues, accusations that I was a "killer", threats to get me fired from my civilian employer and/or get me in trouble with my unit, and so on and so forth.

I've run message boards, off and on, since 1992. I hate banning people. I hate it. I dislike playing the censor. But in the case of this fruitcake and his companion(s), I had to draw the line. They had begun to not only abuse me, but some of the other regular board people as well; people completely unrelated to the anti/pro military argument, who were there for the other topic(s). I finally had to put a stop to it and ban them, and then ban their IP's, and then when that failed, I had to lock the board up tight for about a month, where all new aliases had to get personal approval from me before being allowed to post or send messages through the board.

Finally (and thankfully) the abuse stopped and the abusers moved on to other things.

But it was a tiny example of how cyberspace has allowed unstable and potentially dangerous people to extend their abuse into a new and (largely) uncontrolled arena. It really is spooky to think that these people are out there, and may be as close as the guy sitting next to you in class, or the woman standing in line with you at the McDonalds, or even the person working in the cubicle next to yours at the office. They might seem nice as can be and you would never know the difference. Until they get home, and log on to the Internet, and suddenly the freaky sh*t comes out.

I give Mr. Douglas a heap of credit for being brave/crazy enough to come out to a forum like this and participate. Most actors, I think, do not want to bother. They might love their jobs, and even the idea of being adored as actors, but the fan base itself must often seem like a frightening mass of maladjusted oddballs; folk you'd not want to be around if you could help it.

True - soooo true... in everyway! I met many fans & actors over the last (insert intense thinking) 17 years. There are fans and there are "fans" and I am not surprised that actors or actresses freak out. I would be!

Amazingly enough these fanatics or extremists as you might call them appear in every group or club - online or conventions or in your private life. Scary, really scary...

Thankfully you also met the other ones.

In this there is hope...

Tina

we all know your a successfull actor aaron and you try your best to answer any and all questions fans post not like many other actors i just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work you do to stay updated on the forum good work