Funny thing about google.com...
I had absolutely no idea until a day or so ago that *every* single thing I've ever put on the Net: LJ posts; LJ comments; LJ replies; ezboard posts; ezboard comments; Voy storyboard post; Voy storyboard comments; etc.; etc.; all morphed into a link on google.com. Call me naïve, and I’ve never claimed to be remotely computer savvy, but I did not know this. Consequently, a little ditty I posted a few days ago seems to have popped up on something called a Google Alert for those who follow the career of Roy Dupuis. Though I stand firmly behind my post, I’d not intended to “advertise,” so to speak. Color me baffled when I realized I had.
It gets better.
Color me more baffled when, in a well-intentioned effort to share the “truth” on a Roy-centric message board, a poster was berated for posting a link to my LJ. Ironically, by the same person I referred to in that same post as having a God-complex. I rest my case. I believe the words “misinformation” and “speculation” were also raised, as was the question of “motive,” right before the link was deleted in an act of blatant censorship.
I would think the “motive” was obvious. To share the truth; to explain the situation as it happened; to reveal facts and figures. Exactly as I did in my post. Not everyone reads LJ’s, and I’m certainly not conceited enough to believe my musings are world-renowned. Why not post a link to those who may, somehow, have missed the furor but questioned the unease and tension which continue to plague this fandom?
As to “misinformation” and “speculation”; about what? I’ve checked my facts and figures, and unless the calendar or monetary system has changed between April 2006 and now, there is NO “misinformation” in my post. I believe my invitation to right any unintentional wrongs or to share relevant intel was clear. Yet no one has stepped forward to say what I posted is in error. Behind-the-scenes “damage-control” by those whom, for whatever reason, seek to misdirect, is not what I had in mind. Whatever. The truth is still out there. It won’t go away because someone with self-esteem issues and a delete button wishes it would. You know where I am.
It gets better.
Color me more baffled when, in a well-intentioned effort to share the “truth” on a Roy-centric message board, a poster was berated for posting a link to my LJ. Ironically, by the same person I referred to in that same post as having a God-complex. I rest my case. I believe the words “misinformation” and “speculation” were also raised, as was the question of “motive,” right before the link was deleted in an act of blatant censorship.
I would think the “motive” was obvious. To share the truth; to explain the situation as it happened; to reveal facts and figures. Exactly as I did in my post. Not everyone reads LJ’s, and I’m certainly not conceited enough to believe my musings are world-renowned. Why not post a link to those who may, somehow, have missed the furor but questioned the unease and tension which continue to plague this fandom?
As to “misinformation” and “speculation”; about what? I’ve checked my facts and figures, and unless the calendar or monetary system has changed between April 2006 and now, there is NO “misinformation” in my post. I believe my invitation to right any unintentional wrongs or to share relevant intel was clear. Yet no one has stepped forward to say what I posted is in error. Behind-the-scenes “damage-control” by those whom, for whatever reason, seek to misdirect, is not what I had in mind. Whatever. The truth is still out there. It won’t go away because someone with self-esteem issues and a delete button wishes it would. You know where I am.