by compared2what? » Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:06 am
Just to get it out of the way: Months ago there was some thread where I went way off the rails arguing with marmot, before righting myself and winning on rational points. In the course of it, I admitted to feeling shame about verbosity and connected issues. I predicted the next day (to barracuda, who can confirm) that I would be attacked again on that point within a week. As I was, within a day, actually. By 8bit. And by a banned troll called agitprop.
I've been personally trolled in very extreme detail since the first fucking day I've been on this forum. The first PM I ever received was -- I realized many months later -- from some chick inviting me to join a DE research group. If I mention I have circadian rhythm anomolies, you can bet your bottom fucking dollar that a username "circadiansleepdisordersRus" will register and that a thread or two on the topic will hit the front page.
These guys are really very not subtle. To put it mildly. In any event. I made myself look very bad on that thread with marmot. Since that time, the bulk of the hostility and trolling directed at me has been aimed at my verbosity. And also at my ostensible elitism and love for myself. I'd been here for months with nobody making those accusations up until that point.
However, they've been repeated ad infinitum in thread after thread ever since then. On practically a daily basis. I always out-debate the accuser. Because they're always based on bullshit and innuendo. But in a way, that only makes it worse, since I win on the strength of my reason. And the repetition of the allegation makes an impression. A lasting impression. Even though it's been rebutted.
DE and socrates/tlnl really, really want me off this board. And as alienated from the rest of the community as possible in the meantime. Mr. sMiles has pitched in on that front at least once. vigilant (and stylistic carbon copies of vigilant), too. And others. It's dreary to name them all.
Does that sound narcissistic to you? If it does, get over it. Because I haven't been weeping and moaning and complaining about it, and I'm not fucking going to, although I don't enjoy it. I fight my own battles.
Just thought I'd try to preempt any of that shit before it started. If I could.