Ok, I'll take the pledge. I promise not to respond to any of Mario's posts.
Be prepared. Once Mario feels he is being ignored he *WILL* post something provocative in order to goad people into responding to him. He can not *stand* to be ignored, and appears to have some sort of sick craving for attention. In particular he will post something soliciting some sort of business deal, which we all will be sorely tempted to respond to lest some newbie stumbles across his message and gets sucked into one of Mario's scams. When you see a message like this the best response would be to *not* respond in Mario's thread, but instead start a new thread below it *briefly* summarizing Mario's past deeds (with little or no editorial comment - just the links were the information can be found) and leave it at that. No one even need add their comments to this post. It will simply serve to make the information available to any newbie potentially considering doing business with Mario/Vintage Werks. Once we place the info out there we have done our due diligence in helping the newbie avoid being taken. If the newbie chooses to ignore the warning that is his business.
When you guys were in school, was there a kid that seemed to enjoy being the butt of jokes or being picked on (every class seemed to have one when I was growing up)? These kids would rather be the class joke (not the same as the class clown BTW) and would prefer to be ridiculed, picked on, or otherwise tortured as opposed to being a complete nobody. Mario is that kid. This pathetic guy is so starved for attention he would rather have your barbs and insults rather than be the nobody that he is. Don't give him the pleasure. Truly, if you want to cause this guy some mental anguish just pretend that he doesn't exist, or better yet, let him know he isn't worth your effort to respond to (by *not* responding). Truly, he isn't worth your consideration, time, or effort.