Poking the Tarbaby

[strongaxe]

(Update: the trolls involved have linked this page from their article. So, to visitors from EncyclopediaDramatica: Welcome to my journal. Judge for yourselves if I'm over-reacting. And feel free to add your two cents worth, as long as you show your face (as the article authors have cowardly refused to do in several other related threads in other

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[guikc]

"If you're going to fling mud, people, have the decency to do it openly."

Garbage like this Encyclopedia Dramatica entry exists because decency on the internet went out the window long ago. More and more, it's become the playground of cowards with no lives and no souls who can hide safely--but not always--behind their anonymity, or who gather like snickering, sychophantic schoolgirls around their hate-gushing friends.

Tony has made mistakes. He's shot his mouth off when he should have kept it shut. Counting to 10 is often a foreign concept to him. He has difficulty hiding his emotions, good and bad. He and I have gone around in circles about this. I do not condone it.

But his detractors judge and convict him on merely one or two aspects of his character, completely ignoring the rest because it doesn't fit their agenda. How sad is that? But that's what Empty Vessels do--they try to be filled. With hate, when nothing else is apparently available.

[strongaxe]

I'm constantly tell him to "just let it go"... unfortunately, he has the tenacity of a pit bull.

[clauditorium]

I just now saw that "Dramatica" entry; it is disgusting as well as childish. It goes beyond slander, as far as attempting to destroy a human being. It's obvious whoever created that entry is a very unhappy person filled with so much bile that it has to be spewed out onto others.

Tony has supposedly done a few things I myself would find objectionable, but I barely know the guy, and I won't waste my time judging and persecuting him. Anyone who does needs to get a life of their own.

[strongaxe]

Thanks. I brought this discussion up in another journal, and ignited a huge flame war, mostly with two anonymous cowards who kept flinging childish insults at me for being foolish enough to try to inject logic into a shit-fight, and for being clueless as to not know the scurrilous nature of Encyclopedia Dramatica in the first place.

Well, exCUUUse me for being foolish enough to actually BELIEVE that people mean what they say, and taking them at their words, and holding them accountable for them. After all, that's what that article (or rather, the small percentage of it that is actually legitimate criticism) is doing in the first place.

(Fortunately, they can't comment here without showing their faces (since I forbid anonymous postings), although one has actually followed me around LJ and carried the flame war into another journal.)

[clauditorium]

I understand people who were directly offended by Tony acting out, but the internet lynch-mob mentality is another story, and an ugly one.