futurebird, chessdev, and Their Stupid Little Witch Hunt
For those of you not in talk_politics, I've inadvertantly created something of a controversy about a week ago. It all started over my nickname "Irresponsible Niggerbot 9001". Seems a couple of wingnuts with too much time on their hands found my tag line to be deliberately offensive. Or ill-informed. Or insensitive. To be honest, they don't seem to be sure.
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Sure. I might even do it on both HubPages and TP. But the catch is...Hubpages ToS seems to indicate they don't like their users doing that sort of thing. They don't seem to mind if other people link to and copy a Hub. In fact, they seem to hope it happens. but mirroring your own Hub someplace else is regarded as cheating.
Now we're getting closer to the real reason why you're leaving. You're just bored or pissed with the internet at large.
Not so much bored or pissed. I've been on the internet since about 1997 and I lost my "this is serious business" illusions about it in less than a year. I started internet trolling at that point. I did that off and on until last year. I quit that because in that length of time, I've pulled nearly every trolling stunt I felt comfortable with and wrang it dry of every last bit of novelty. During that long stint of trolling, I've seen literally every bizarre, attention-whoring, perverted, retarded, and even illegal behavior from my targets you can imagine. Do you think a guy would go on the internet and proclaim that he likes to have sex with balloons? What about an old blind man who asks people to make videos of themselves pooping in the bathroom? How about a guy who draws porn of Ms. Pac-Man? These are all real people and I've seen even worse.
Al Gore acted like the internet would be this wonderful thing when it started up. lol instead it became the biggest joke of the modern age in the minds of myself and a lot of others. There is an entire internet subculture built around the idea that the internet is just a time-waster. Not everybody in said culture is a troll. But if I went onto a site full of them, calling myself "Niggerbot" wouldn't earn me wrath. It'd draw a yawn, even from the black folks there. XD
Hmm, maybe I'll write more about the things I've seen on the internet from this point of view in this journal.
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