What We Do To Anonymous Flamers
Jun. 5th, 2002 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I've had this journal nearly a year now, and over the course of that year, I've had a number of occasions to reflect on its nature. I am a fairly open person; I'll tell anyone what I'm thinking at any given time. This can get me in trouble, but I wouldn't live any other way.
Being such an overly honest person, I tend to forget to use the privacy options on livejournal. I do sometimes, but often, I'll tell the whole world something, simply because I don't care who knows.
I've considered several times making this journal friends-only, or disabling anonymous posting, but I never have. Why? Many reasons. Most importantly, a number of my close in-person friends don't have livejournal accounts, so if I did either of those things, they couldn't talk to me here. So I don't.
This is usually fine. But sometimes things like this happen:
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=dragonlady7&itemid=110917&view=294469#t294469
It's pretty funny, I suggest you read it.
If you don't care to read it, I'll sum up:
I wrote an entry bitching about a friend of a friend's tour flier (she's a touring singer/songwriter), which I felt contained material that would be hurtful to my friend. She spotted the entry, as she stalks her now ex-boyfriend through my journal (i never said this was simple...), and we spoke about it. Things were resolved-- well, at least I thought so, but obviously she didn't actually read anything that I wrote in this conversation. Oh well, c'est la vie. And somehow, a fan of hers just happened to stumble across this entry, and has decided to give me a piece of his mind on the topic.
Without signing his name.
[I'm saying "he" because for some reason I feel this is a male person. I don't know that.]
Anyhow, it's really funny. I just added another comment. Whee, I swear a good argument is the only thing that could shake me out of my post-graduation ennui. This is great!
This person has decided I'm 'bogus as hell' and a 'self-righteous bitch' but hasn't given me any information to back up this claim; i'm still waiting for supporting arguments. I'm not positive what precisely he's objecting to... anyone who wants to explain to me what makes me bogus on that issue is welcome, as I'm not sure. You can explain to me how i'm a self-righteous bitch if you like, as well, but i get a lot of that so i don't really care. and i reserve the right to defend myself if it amuses me to do so. :)
I noticed I have an anonymous defender in that same entry (and both commented in a later entry as well, to point to the earlier one-- so eager were they for a debate)-- I don't know who that person is either, but at least they seem to be a more longtime reader. *shrug*
Feel free to contribute to the earlier discussion, or comment here.
And really, I don't mind anonymous posts, but please please please sign a name, any name, and use the same one for all your posts. I'm easily confused, really, and it just makes it much fairer if I have a name to go with you. Or an initial. Or even a distinctive smilie. I don't give a rat's ass. IP addresses are so not catchy.
And so I must confess the overriding reason that I don't make my journal friends-only or anonymous-posting-disabled: I am, like many people, an attention whore, and I cannot have too large an audience, even for my private rantings about my own reproductive system (really, that's usually what i post about... isn't it?)
So let the games begin.
Being such an overly honest person, I tend to forget to use the privacy options on livejournal. I do sometimes, but often, I'll tell the whole world something, simply because I don't care who knows.
I've considered several times making this journal friends-only, or disabling anonymous posting, but I never have. Why? Many reasons. Most importantly, a number of my close in-person friends don't have livejournal accounts, so if I did either of those things, they couldn't talk to me here. So I don't.
This is usually fine. But sometimes things like this happen:
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=dragonlady7&itemid=110917&view=294469#t294469
It's pretty funny, I suggest you read it.
If you don't care to read it, I'll sum up:
I wrote an entry bitching about a friend of a friend's tour flier (she's a touring singer/songwriter), which I felt contained material that would be hurtful to my friend. She spotted the entry, as she stalks her now ex-boyfriend through my journal (i never said this was simple...), and we spoke about it. Things were resolved-- well, at least I thought so, but obviously she didn't actually read anything that I wrote in this conversation. Oh well, c'est la vie. And somehow, a fan of hers just happened to stumble across this entry, and has decided to give me a piece of his mind on the topic.
Without signing his name.
[I'm saying "he" because for some reason I feel this is a male person. I don't know that.]
Anyhow, it's really funny. I just added another comment. Whee, I swear a good argument is the only thing that could shake me out of my post-graduation ennui. This is great!
This person has decided I'm 'bogus as hell' and a 'self-righteous bitch' but hasn't given me any information to back up this claim; i'm still waiting for supporting arguments. I'm not positive what precisely he's objecting to... anyone who wants to explain to me what makes me bogus on that issue is welcome, as I'm not sure. You can explain to me how i'm a self-righteous bitch if you like, as well, but i get a lot of that so i don't really care. and i reserve the right to defend myself if it amuses me to do so. :)
I noticed I have an anonymous defender in that same entry (and both commented in a later entry as well, to point to the earlier one-- so eager were they for a debate)-- I don't know who that person is either, but at least they seem to be a more longtime reader. *shrug*
Feel free to contribute to the earlier discussion, or comment here.
And really, I don't mind anonymous posts, but please please please sign a name, any name, and use the same one for all your posts. I'm easily confused, really, and it just makes it much fairer if I have a name to go with you. Or an initial. Or even a distinctive smilie. I don't give a rat's ass. IP addresses are so not catchy.
And so I must confess the overriding reason that I don't make my journal friends-only or anonymous-posting-disabled: I am, like many people, an attention whore, and I cannot have too large an audience, even for my private rantings about my own reproductive system (really, that's usually what i post about... isn't it?)
So let the games begin.
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Date: 2002-06-05 02:06 pm (UTC)Sweet Home Chicago
Date: 2002-06-05 06:49 pm (UTC)Judging by the poor writing style and geographic location, might I venture a guess that it's this pretty piece of work here (http://www.brianwspencer.com). The lyrics will connect you with him on a personal level, or so the bio says.
These singer-songwriters have such limited appeal that the probability of one of their dozen fans stumbling across a random livejournal seems rather remote. However, both of them seem to be as internet savvy as one can expect from the nadaintelligentsia, and since they've shared tour fliers, it would seem that they've swapped URLs, too.
- holmes
Brian Spencer Folk Explosion?
Date: 2002-06-06 05:56 am (UTC)Oh, but his lyrics _do_ connect with me on a personal, if not primal, level. When he croons 'fourth-grade playground,' I'm right there behind him, singing backup in my [in]famous Kate Pierson falsetto. But ...I thought Chicagoans were supposed to have soul? [I apologize; that statement was spiteful and entirely unfounded, because I, like almost everyone else, have never, nor will ever hear Mr. Spencer's music. [Sorry, that statement was spiteful as well. I've been in such an intemperate mood lately that it's nice to finally have a whipping boy so entirely deserving of my ire.]]
- Jersey's Crush
Re: Brian Spencer Folk Explosion?
Date: 2002-06-06 09:12 am (UTC)but when they start off throwing shit at me, i can just take the muzzle right off and go for it!
man, i need to attract more flamers; it gets me going better than coffee.
ahhhhh. i love the smell of hostility in the morning.