Gaining a reputation...
Well, well, well! TFF is beginning to make a few waves on the Blogosphere Ocean.
My comment on Ekapa was described as "part maddening, part hilarious". Sadly, his sycophantic readers weren't so impressed and threatened to mailbomb me with viruses. All 5 of them.
Meanwhile, Chihuahua's Bite devoted a whole post to an exact cut and paste replica of this site.
He started out describing me as an "anonymous twit", but came round to my way of thinking in the end:
My comment on Ekapa was described as "part maddening, part hilarious". Sadly, his sycophantic readers weren't so impressed and threatened to mailbomb me with viruses. All 5 of them.
Meanwhile, Chihuahua's Bite devoted a whole post to an exact cut and paste replica of this site.
What can I say? I'm flattered.
He started out describing me as an "anonymous twit", but came round to my way of thinking in the end:
So yes fellow bloggers, this fucker has really impressed me with his style and educated critique. I’m going to be a better person from this day on. I promise Trollmeister, I do.
See? everyone eventually realises I'm talking sense!
Finally, I had a comment on my last post from someone who accused me of posting a comment on her friend's blog and making her "feel like sh#$". I have no idea what comment or what blog, but I would imagine that her blog made me feel pretty much the same way - hence the comment...
posted by Trollmeister at 10:18 AM
17 Comments:
I have to say, I think that you have a good point, and you certainly do seem to be hurting some feelings. I found you through a comment on Life Cycle of a Fruit Fly, which doesn't contain the word "fuck", so I guess that makes it the best blog in the world!
I am only posting a comment here because I think it is serendipitous that I happened across this blog on the VERY DAY that I posted on my blog about how sucky and boring my blog had become and how I needed to get back to the older, angrier blogging style I had kind of abandoned.
Lastly, because clearly this comment is not yet long enough, I do applaud you for having your comments turned on so that those you wound so grievously have a chance to come back here and attempt to bite you in the ass. Sadly, from what I have seen so far, many of them seem to lack the available teeth for biting, but bravo to them for coming over and returning the favor of commenting. Isn't the bracing exchange of comments really what this blogging thing is all about? There's nothing worse than someone anonymously flaming a blog post and not being able to bounce on over to their blog and call them a fuckwad to their faces. I would have put a smiley face emoticon at the end of that sentence, to indicate that it was partly a joke, but I assume emoticons are precisely the kind of lazy, crap-filled writing that you are so zealously railing against, and I wouldn't want to be guilty of such an offense in your comment section. Oh, what the hell, here :) .
Oh, and not to be picky or anything, but you have a typo in your "about me" section...
If you've don't have.
Perhaps "If you don't have" or "If you've not had" - just a suggestion.
Woo. She good. She VERY good!
I wrote that when I was drunk - a pretty good effort considering, but yes - hopelessly wrong.
Thanks for your comment. It's actually the longest comment I've ever seen and I hang around comments pages "quite a lot".
I too hate anonymous flaming and trolling. Lest it be forgotten, I'm providing a service here, damn it...
well, it's a good thing. making your stand and everything.
anyway, happy easter! & have a nice day! *hugs*
Oh, my blog contains the word fuck. Not recently I guess... I don't use it in writing nearly as often as I use it in conversation. Just had to clarify that. Wouldn't want anyone left with the impression that I don't say fuck. Goodness no.
So, more to the point and on topic, I actually find I get a kick out of the myriad trolls out there. (This is really not an original idea, you do realize that, yes?) I tend to be the kind of person who follows the rule "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything," yet I have a cruel streak a mile long hidden under that nicey-nice façade. I actually have some appreciation for those who have the balls to say the things I'm thinking, even if I don't usually publicly back them up.
But honestly, the "blogosphere", as a whole, is a far too easy target. Because yes, it has become almost "too accessible." (Which is sort of a backhanded way of responding to the comment you left for me.)
Anything that is open to everyone will soon fall to the lowest common denominator, and this is where we find ourselves today. Good thing, or bad thing? Who am I to make that decision?
A blog will simply be a reflection of the person writing it, and there are a lot of stupid people in the world. (Bluntly put.) Who are we to say that stupid people shouldn't blog? I think I'd rather focus my energy on convincing them not to breed if I was going to make an attempt to do anything about stupid people. (Though I fear that all attempts to do that would be hopelessly futile anyway.)
I think what I'm saying (in a very long winded manner - I'm attempting to break TGIUTK's record here) is that criticism of blogs - when done with acerbic wit and some hint of humor, can be entertaining. However, telling people not to blog just because what they are currently writing about is boring to others, well, eh. That's not all that entertaining really.
If you're going to have a blog for people to bounce back to after leaving them a nasty comment (not that the one you left me was nasty, I guess I got lucky) - ESPECIALLY if that comment was pointing out to him/her how pointless you think his/her blog is - then it would be nice to find some content of value at your own blog. Currently, you've not quite managed that. At the very least, you're not saying anything that I haven't seen on other blogs, ad nauseam. (Though I, like TGIUTK, do have to commend you on at least giving people an outlet to vent back. You'd get more feedback if you left anonymous comments open too, but I'm guessing you don't want the flames that would inevitably come with that.)
Just some food for thought. You may, of course, feel free to disregard me completely, as most people do.
Oh, and BTW - I'm not having a problem with my content displaying too low on the page in IE on my computer, and neither is anyone else that I've polled. So, either something is wacky with your IE, you have it set to a half screen view (in which case, yeah, IE is going to do weird things), or you're just complaining about my general design. (The header graphic does take up a lot of prominent space at the top, but that's by design.) If that is the case, oh well. Can't please everyone.
Have fun trolling.
Oh, and never mind about my saying fuck. I get that what she was referring to was your comment, not my blog.
This is what I get for being up early. My thoughts are not fully coherent just yet.
Wow...I didn't think it was possible to have less of a life than some of the bloggers I've seen, but you take the cake. Congratulations! You are officially the most pathetic blogger on the web.
OMG! Thanks for stopping by. :-)
You have such a worship-worthy blog. Love it. :-)
Hey, I have been using the "Telling It Like It Is" moniker for one and one half years on my blog. You are in violation of copyright. I am serious as a heart attack when I say I will sue your ass unless you take it off this blog. You have 3 days to comply.
Read Title 17, if you don't believe me.
Ooh! Ooh! How threatening!
Try Googling the phrase "Telling it like it is" and see just how busy your lawyer is going to be.
Sod off, Mr Knobjockey.
Hey Trollmeister thanks for the visit, no F word in the comment left there yet! so I guess you found it quite enjoyable.
I will reconsider your request about the auto-play, but there again how can I annoy people like you do if I take it off?
I keep telling people that there is a sound control button installed on the task bar, but no.. they have to see and play with the media player buttons.
Life sucks.. there's no pleasing everyone I suppose.
I like this site and will be back and hey I wish I were half as handsome as you are. lol
I like it! Tell it how it is. I guess other trolls will start visiting this blog and the whole thing will come full circle...
Thanks for visiting my site, it's not everyday I get a Troll visiting it.
Forgot to say Steve. I might find trollmaster a pain in the butt sometimes but "Telling it like it is" is a common statement so unfortunately you cannot claim ownership....but I also feel you said it in jest :-)
Wow, this is really pathetic.
It's like masturbating in public.
Sad man, you.
And you'd know about that, RichNYC?
Mucho sympatitico bloggio, Monsieur Troll.
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