Too Much To Dream

Anger is unattractive? hmmmm.... Then what's up with all those angry heros we keep seeing in action adventure movies? I guess someone should tell Hollywood that they will never make any money with that sort of thing because it's so unattractive.

I'm not a troll anymore? Thanks, Andrea! Explosions in movies are cool. Explosions between people are not. Oh no... Now I'm defending Hollywood? Way to twist my comment.

I like anger. Anger works. I find that venting my spleen on a daily basis keeps my cholesterol low and my blood pressure at about 80/60.

And it makes my hair shiny and manageable!

Seriously, what is it about "here's how I run my blog" posts that brings out the uber wank in people?

Uber wank? No, this falls under "If you can't laugh at yourself, others will do it for you". Andrea has no sense of humor about people commenting on her outbursts. Also, I didn't actually reprimand her. I just made a statement of belief. I find anger unattractive. Excuse me for phrasing it like fact.

Why does anger work? What does it accomplish? Can we see a photo of your shiny hair, Tracey?

Gee, Phil, could you up the smugness a bit? Some oxygen is still getting to my brain.

I'm all out of smug, sorry.

Nah, from where I'm sitting, Phil is Mayor of Smug Town.

Phil -

You couldn't handle the shininess of my tresses! I stated why anger works for me above--call it my statement of belief.

Also, I think my teeth are at least Two. Shades. Whiter! Due to my judicious use of anger!

And the whole uber wank thing can be summed up thusly: Andrea states how her blog works. Folks comment on that, knowing (based upon the rules listed) that their comments will provoke. Then they keep on doing it! That's where we enter wank mode--the discussion has no point, except to the wanker who likes to provoke. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, nor is the idea that the blogatrice must somehow be "called" on "lacking a sense of humor." And on it goes...wankity wankity wank.

And since I am now contributing to the wank, I shall stop. Sorry for cluttering up the comments, Andrea!

Phil, I would imagine that most of us are laughing at you this time around, because most of us know Andrea has a delightful sense of humor. If that sounds cliqueish, it's because I've been reading her blog for more than a year, and she's never been less than gracious even when we disagree, but then ***I've*** never gotten into pissing contests with her over how she should run her blog.

I'm not real sure what you're trying to prove here, but it's laughable in it's "wankity-wankity-wank" absurdity. To which I have now contributed...

PS Thrilled to learn that BigArmWoman has a name! Who knew?

[wanking from="troll"] All I said in regards to her blog was: "If you don't like smarm, don't have a comment form." Hardly a pissing contest. I didn't object to her deletion of my comment, that's her perogative. I continue to try and participate (hold my own - it's not easy around here). I appreciate the traffic from the curious Andrea reader visiting my site to see who this Phil person is. Maybe the rules should live next to the form so we're reminded of them every time (oops I'm telling her how to run her blog again sorry). [/wanking]

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I for one find it curious why this issue seems to come up repeatedly for female-owned blogs and not as much for male-owned blogs.
The attacks by the trolls are also more personal.

Is there a little misogyny at work in the blogosphere? Love the venting, Andrea!

When I visit Spleenville, I'm looking for some fresh, juicy spleen. And Andrea delivers -- with considerable humor. When I want warm fuzzy hugs, I go elsewhere. Well, to be honest, I'm not into warm-n-fuzzy blogging. But if I were, I wouldn't ask Spleenville to provide it. It's a big Blogosphere out there, kids.

I'm still waiting for something of value to pop out of Phillip's keyboard. But I'm not holding my breath.

Trolls I can understand. Pointless trolls, though, confuse me. Maybe Phillip's watched Anger Management far too many times (read: more than zero) and has determined to make a career change in that direction.

Well.

Clicked on that name and got sent into a vortex of dull.

I can see why he's here trying to stir stuff up--he's trying to get traffic.

Problem is, people hit his site, start to go numb, and ram their heads through the moniter to remind themselves that they're still alive (a much better method than eye-based spork gouging, I assure you). Naturally this results in a lot of one-time viewers.

I would have succumbed myself had not my non-ergonomic keyboard gotten in the way (Fortunately for me, a sudden sharp pain to the abdomen is a good substitue for smashing one's head through the screen).

In future, some kind of warning would insure that something like this never happen again. Perhaps a smileyface, grey, unsmiling, apathetic could be placed next to links to the site in question so Speenville readers are not rendered new candidates for the worm farm.

All this unpleasantness can be traced back to a lack of Harris Breasteses Pics....

Heh heh heh...

i've been periodically checking in on the status of andrea's trollage. i felt to comment was to legitimize their existance, so i refrained. this time i suppose i can no longer fight the urge to add to the wank.

i simply can not understand how "my blog, my rules" fails to compute for some people. it baffles me. it seems a simple logic, so follow me here, Phil:

person who pays makes the rules. it's so American - it's actually beautifully simple. person who pays decides who can comment and who can't. comment form does not equal permission to say whatever you want. person who pays can say anything they want, in whatever way they want to say it.

you don't like it, don't read it.

end of story. end of wank from me.

call me stupid. but i dont know what a blog is. is there a chance i could talk with andrea? thanks.

This is a blog. You're talking to Andrea by commenting on it.