the law of unintended consequences
Earlier in the week (nay, a scant two days ago), I said this….
There aren’t many people whom I’d arbitrarily like to shut down or flag as asshat or eejit. In fact, I can only think of one person. So why aren’t I planting multiple mighty flags of “-1 inflammatory idiot” on this person and his spiel on blogspot ?
To all four of you who’ve contacted me in one way or the other and asked questions along the lines of “Were you referring to me, perchance?“, I have a single, and I would have thought obvious, answer. No, you were not the target of my unkind and possibly (although I can’t tell for sure) uncalled-for jibe. I know of and read literally dozens of blogs that are hosted on blogspot. I rarely agree with all the content I see there. I don’t get all hot and bothered about this fact at all. Out of all of those blogs, there is a single person whom I feel has crossed some invisible line of conduct that I’ve decided is my stand on acceptable online behaviour. Just one. (And no, spam blogs really don’t fall into that category at all). What on earth would possess anyone to think that they were that single person ? It staggers me, it really does.
As for the person in question, I’ve flipped the bozo bit on him already. To quote from that article:
In regard to random people in the world at large, it might be a positive sometimes, since life is too short to interact with everyone in the world anyway… However, even there, SetTheBozoBit is often drawing a hasty incorrect conclusion, and certainly is just taking an easy way out. But it doesn’t always matter that one is harshly miscategorizing people. It happens.
Finis ? I certainly hope so.
On 26-Aug-05 at 8:41 pm,
Forge wrote:
Aargh! It was me, wasn’t it???
On 26-Aug-05 at 9:34 pm,
drac wrote:
How very perceptive of you
And thanks to the emails, IMs and queries of a few, I’m actually going to take the precaution of postfixing the following:
NOT.
On 27-Aug-05 at 6:10 am,
sage wrote:
-pokes shoulder- is it me, is it me? huh, huh, huh?
On 27-Aug-05 at 3:07 pm,
chickenbutt wrote:
this is all soo funny..
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On 27-Aug-05 at 9:50 pm,
drac wrote:
Quoth I:
Quoth sage:
Excuse me, ma’am; but I think you’re in the little boys room. The little girls room is next door. And stop staring at the urinals, thankee.
On 29-Aug-05 at 4:54 am,
sage wrote:
i can see that pointed sarcasm is lost on you.
On 29-Aug-05 at 5:08 am,
Forge wrote:
I do believe that the questioning hordes have driven ol’ draco into the depths of paranoia. Heh.
On 29-Aug-05 at 7:12 am,
sloth wrote:
it was me!
On 29-Aug-05 at 2:44 pm,
drac wrote:
Actually, yes.. I am fearfully peering out of my lair, wondering when the next person with a penchant for hasty conclusions (and jumping to, thereof) will appear.
and no, Slothy. It wasn’t you. We wuvs our sloth, we does. I unflagged you when the week passed (ie: before I wrote this comment).