A Few Bad Apples

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Published on March 8, 2004 By crimson In Blogging

Most of the bloggers on Joeuser are great, but the occasional few that are around really make me feel like calling it a day. It's pretty depressing seeing their posts and the negativity they produce, but its getting to the point where it's hard to just say that they have their own right to their own opinion. It is becoming a hate-filled site, unfortunately.

I suppose there is not much that I can do about it, except complain in my own, non-hate blog. I welcome opinions that don't necessarily match mine, just so long as they don't contain full-on attacks against people with different ways of living that don't mirror their own.

There's been some interesting posts though, lately, getting more into the reasonings why some people blog. I like looking at the Welcome category, to see who's newly venturing into this arena of online expression. I hope they don't take a look at some of the more recent posts of stupidity put out by those who have the gall to say that it's 'nothing personal' yet continue on their vendetta, full knowing that there are many people who access this site who are directly affected.

I apologize for them, if it helps any.

Comments (Page 2)

Wahkonta Anathema

on Mar 11, 2004

I got involved in this site for the exact reason of the insults and bile some were throwing when I looked it up. I saw people being ganged up on for having different points of view and leaving left and right, (figuratively not politically). I felt they deserved a read and so got into it to show support for the adverse views.

Remember this site is largely designed for political purposes along with the money. I am considering a thesis that with the new censoring of opinion and advertising as the election draws near, this is going to be a major tool for use to escape the hatchet being taken on free speech by entrenched incumbents. Soon you'll begin to see what I mean as the law goes into effect at a specific date.

I do not use any form of blacklisting on my blog and find it antithetical to my objectives. I do understand how the use of spurious terms and even worse by some can be a testing event to read. Still, I let comments stand and fall on their own merit. If I have a point of view and it is flawed - and this has happened to me several times - I let it fall as such and stand corrected. This is part of my evolution as a thinker and commentator. It makes me a better blogger and thinker not worse.

Likewise, if a blogger is nonsensical and blathers in response to a posting I make, I let that stand out as well. It is its own refutation of that view, and those who read it will compare it to other comments; it is a credit to the post I make. Now no doubt one must be teflon coated or thick-skinned to blog on such topics, and I guess I am a bit thicker than some. If you are going to get in the ring, you have to be ready to take a punch.

Believe it or not, there are some who use the tactic of insult to try to dissuade others from continuing to post as the opinion refutes their own and they have no response. Not wanting, for political purposes, to have such information known, these types will try this tactic to get the opinion stopped. To quit only enables them to do it with more confidence to the next person.

With this understanding of context and the overall objectives of the site, we can then see better the hows and whys of these things that are done and commonly complained of. I pity the sorry f---- more than hate them, and to let them win by such means is not in my makeup. I hope you'll relate this to new bloggers as well and let them know blogging is for many reasons, some un-related to diary or journal keeping. You take the good with the bad and can always get a paper diary and use it if this proves a negative to the psyche.

But please don't leave! If you do, it leaves us with the debit to blogging and we lose the ability to credit you for being concerned and mature enough to communicate effectively. Blog ON my friends.

crimson

on Mar 11, 2004

Wahkonta,
Thanks for writing. In retrospect, looking at what I had written, it might have been possible to assume that I was ready to quit blogging altogether. I think I was just ready to log out of Joeuser for that day, when faced with the rather dismal subject material that was listed on the featured and forum sections. I agree with your comments about blacklisting; even though there are a handful of people who's writing infuriates me, it's a pretty big step. I keep hoping that maybe I will see something that gives me a fresh perspective on an issue that I've already made my mind up about, or at least a better understanding as to why they have made up theirs.

As far as politics go, it is an arena where it seems that you had better be prepared for any backlash against what you say... there are just so many people at Joeuser with a varying of opinions at both ends of the spectrum and in between. Generally, we all write well, but sometimes it seems like there a lot of people who are just going 'Nah na nah na nah nah!" Frustrating? Yes. Worth it to blacklist? I'm not ready to do it.

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