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This Will Be Offensive
Recently I stumbled onto a blog post where a member who only tells everyone every piece of shit with which they stain paper or screen is the best poem ever was whining about being attacked.
This was the attack:
"I really enjoy your poetry
Date: 9 August 2009 - 2:05am
and appreciate how you find the best in others.
Yet I feel you do harm by doing so.
People are at Neopoet to improve.
You have unwittingly, yet caring and lovingly, become part of the clique that would destroy Neopoet.
Only by honest feedback do we grow, we are not a mutual… satisfaction society.
A word here, a phrase there, a disagreement with sentiment, by opposition and support we grow"
I was incredulous. How the fuck could a "I like your poetry and I know you mean well but you would be more helpful if you offered critique" be an attack? Yet people rushed to apologize for the "attack" and the AEC Chair even promised it would be reviewed.
What the fuck is there to review Rett? Is Neopoet a workshop environment or not? In a workshop critique is demanded, it is not optional.
So I responded and, oh here is a surprise, was attacked for not agreeing that the parasite was being attacked.
People, I am an asshole. In no stretch of any imagination am I a nice person. If your really want to get into a flamewar with me please be aware that I consider them a source of entertainment and a hobby. And none of that is of any import, it is just offered as an explanation, not excuse, an explanation to which I will point often, for behaviour to follow.
What is laughable in this is people whining about being attacked and then attacking. Shit, have a fucking spine. If you do not like a PM, delete it, don't whine to everyone and play the victim and then engage in the exact behaviour you pretend to abhor.
Let's look at the facts. You idiots do not care about attacks, you just care when your pets and your paramours and your Internet girl and boy friends are attacked. You are a fucking bunch of gradeschoolers who whimper and whine because people do not want to be part of your tea party.
You fuckers are Ralph.
Look it up.
This was the attack:
"I really enjoy your poetry
Date: 9 August 2009 - 2:05am
and appreciate how you find the best in others.
Yet I feel you do harm by doing so.
People are at Neopoet to improve.
You have unwittingly, yet caring and lovingly, become part of the clique that would destroy Neopoet.
Only by honest feedback do we grow, we are not a mutual… satisfaction society.
A word here, a phrase there, a disagreement with sentiment, by opposition and support we grow"
I was incredulous. How the fuck could a "I like your poetry and I know you mean well but you would be more helpful if you offered critique" be an attack? Yet people rushed to apologize for the "attack" and the AEC Chair even promised it would be reviewed.
What the fuck is there to review Rett? Is Neopoet a workshop environment or not? In a workshop critique is demanded, it is not optional.
So I responded and, oh here is a surprise, was attacked for not agreeing that the parasite was being attacked.
People, I am an asshole. In no stretch of any imagination am I a nice person. If your really want to get into a flamewar with me please be aware that I consider them a source of entertainment and a hobby. And none of that is of any import, it is just offered as an explanation, not excuse, an explanation to which I will point often, for behaviour to follow.
What is laughable in this is people whining about being attacked and then attacking. Shit, have a fucking spine. If you do not like a PM, delete it, don't whine to everyone and play the victim and then engage in the exact behaviour you pretend to abhor.
Let's look at the facts. You idiots do not care about attacks, you just care when your pets and your paramours and your Internet girl and boy friends are attacked. You are a fucking bunch of gradeschoolers who whimper and whine because people do not want to be part of your tea party.
You fuckers are Ralph.
Look it up.