Hey another great post on that other troll infested blog.
Our old pal reader_iam made a great point in her usual inimitable manner. I have to record it for posterity because she will proably delete it in another ten minutes:
FWIW,IMO there really is no point to this. The line's been drawn and it's clear and has been clear, at least to me, since Friday, 3/13, the day Althouse wrote the (to me infamous) words, "Will you cut it the fuck out!" to people who theretofore had never been considered trolls, at least to my knowledge, in a manner of address I could not then, and cannot now, recall her ever using toward any commenters, even trolls, even in the days of Quxxo, Mary, Maxine in her creepy phase, etc., or even Steve Simels (sp.?) or Dave(TM). That was the epiphany for me.
Again, for whatever it's worth, and IMO, Althouse has made herself as clear as day with regard to her stance and what she will and will not tolerate, and what path she wants people visiting her blog to take. I see zero evidence that she's persuadable to a different stance, and therefore--at least it seems to me--it's arguably even more pointless to try to change her mind or keep expressing disagreement with her stance than it is to engage with whatever troll (or whatever term) of the moment.
I think the choice is either to accept the terms or go (not that I'm saying that's an easy choice; I loved this place, too).
Anyway, that's my 63 cents, and I'm sorry if it annoys anyone. This is the one time I plan to weigh in on the topic here, so you won't have to hear it again.
Hee, hee. I like it when reader get's em twisted. You go girl!
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I love roller derby.
A bunch of girls from the New York team shop in the store.
Check out the hole in the fishnets all the way up the thigh there.
Yowza baby!
Fishnets never did it for me. I like those sheer nylons held with garters. Now that's what gets the blood pumpin.
In a manner of speaking.
Yeah, reader's pretty good at pushing back. I learned that late one night last December right here on TY.
But now I've learned to ♥ reader_iam.
Those Iowa broads can be rough as a cob.
So to speak.
Mind your p's and q's.
Well if she's charging 63 cents for her thoughts I won't be reading any more of her stuff. I'm on a budget :-)
Hey, I just realized I have to add a camel toe caption. Cool.
Blast from the past.
Hey, I just realized I have to add a camel toe caption..
You're quite the eagle eye there.
Sure they look great in the pictures. But I was at a bike shop party last week and there were some of the local roller derby girls there and sadly they looked nothing like the ladies in the picture.
Hey, maybe if were marryin' Meade soon too, you'd be a bit testy!
Am I allowed to move in over here?
Palladian! :)
Hey Palladian! Nice to see you here.
She bit Meade's testes?
Yep, reader's comment was spot on!
I just checked out that Friday the 13th dog shit thread. Yep, reader deleted her only comment I see, and no trace of the Althouse FU to poor, dear (and I mean dear) reader.
That thread has the aura of Sippican erasing himself. Oh, the scars we cannot see are the ones that cut most deeply.
Anyway, looking back at that (with the quaint "Michael," for old time's sake) it's interesting how prissy and easily offended Inspektor Friedrich was. Cousin Bob was pretty good, but better in a nearby thread talking about Indians with Cedarford. Where is Cousin Bob? We could definitely use more of his type around here. He was one of those AA commenters who appeared a few times with pretty good stuff, and, poof! gone.
Anyway, my future depends on getting this bleeping program done...which should have been done today, and thank God the boss was out...so, despite the Shiraz with dinner, I'm pressing ahead into an impenetrable tangle of G90's and G91's—relative and absolute motion—which may or may not have anything do do with whether reader orbits this way or not.
I go to Simmels Powerpop blog almost every day. The guy knows music and is a real gentleman over there. I think he has difficulty in staying civil in political debate, but as I never bring the subject up over there, I am treated quite well.
If you love pop music, I can heartily recommend that place. Tell them I sent you, I can use the cred.
Trey
I have a lot of sympathy fro reader_iam's sentements, but I think she and others are missing Althouse's point.
People like "Jeremy" are not persuadeable and are not interested in keeping Althouse.blogspot.com the success it has been. Her comentariate are reasonable and do want the blog to remain a good place to visit.
Her solution, to ignore trolls, is not perfect but would improve the place. I say give it a try and see what happens.
dbp, I'm going to be doing just that---ignore the trolls.
Unfortunately, the only practical way to do that is to ignore everything else as well. People keep saying "just scroll on by when you see so-and-so's name." Man, I'd love to have a brain like that, but I haven't read that linearly in 30 years. If it's on the screen, it's in my brain, period.
It can't be ignored, so my choices are either respond, not respond and stew, or leave. Option #1 gets me labeled as a troll, option #2 is unpleasant.
Wow! I just now noticed the mean blogger lady has removed Trooper York from her blogroll.
That'll teach you.
You know what pisses me off more than the trolls? It’s the highbrow snide replies to a simple question or observation. It seems like there are far too many who use the site as a place to sharpen their smart ass skills rather than engage in honest debate.
Case in point, on the Iran thread I thought it odd that a nation that speaks Farsi and has an entirely different alphabet nevertheless has the English word POLICE on their uniforms and riot shields. Then I get a lecture that POLICE is a French word and not an English word and maybe the Iranians adopted it like we did. Well that would be fine if it explained the alphabet issue too but I guess it was more important to demonstrate my ignorance of the etymology of the word police.
Oh well. Maybe the less I spend over there the better. I’d rather discuss the differences of fishnet and nylons anyway.
Wow! I just now noticed the mean blogger lady has removed Trooper York from her blogroll..
Well that settles it for me then.
Trooper is no longer recommended reading? What's next, airbrushed from history by deleting all of his comments? How odd.
Hey you are only a protected species if you are a troll or some other kind of snail darter or something.
Try not reading over there for a month and see how fucked up it sounds when you return. There's a half hour a day you can spend with Troop or some of his linkees.
And easier on the brain. Pabst smear, anyone?
Everybody's got to do what's right for them. No harm, no foul.
I am kinda proud of most of the people who comment here who are agitators. I love it that you guys are revolting.
So to speak.
How did the term troll evolve?
Seems parasite would be more accurate. Those posters who have nothing interesting to say but suck the blood and life out of an argument.
You know I read a comment by Loafing Oaf, you know the guy who had Sarah Palin's pussy stuck to his leg. No personally I think he is a whole bag of douches and I don't agree with anything he has to say. But he did say one thing that was very perceptive. He said that people who post comments are a bunch of "Cliff Clavins" who spout off on every subject like they are experts. That's pretty much true. The hardest thing in life is often to simply say "Hey I don't know."
That's why I post about tits and food all the time.
You know something I have been studying ever since I was ten years old.
"Wow! I just now noticed the mean blogger lady has removed Trooper York from her blogroll.."
Maybe she is just making up for when she had Trooper on the blogrole 3 times.
Also, I just noticed that she has a link to Blake's blog now.
Well blake says he knows her.
So that's only right after all.
AA put Troop and I on the blog at the same time.
It was a nice gesture.
The "63 cents" (the actual figure was chosen--seriously!--because that's the amount of change that happened to be on the dining room table next to my laptop at the time) instead of "2 cents" was a reflection of my knowing I was using a whole lot of words, even as my better self knew fewer would be better.
Shorter:It was a sideline mockery of my own ironic choice of quantity over quality.
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Do me a favor, Trooper York, if you will. Don't turn this one into a front-paged, full-blown post. It'll do no good for anyone anywhere. I don't think I need to explain why I write that, or at least I hope not.
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