12-29-2008, 03:45 AM
Little Arminius Wrote:I thought that Quinn Tyler Jackson was a man of principle who would never back down in the face of a hostile crowd - we know what happened with that.
Actually, none of you have the slightest clue "what happened with that." You like to imagine that you can piece it all together from what you think is going on, but basically your only source of information is what you read on Internet bulletin boards and in Usenet posts. If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then surely these boards are very dangerous places.
There's no such thing as a "hostile crowd" on an Internet board. Be it one poster posting 101 nasty things, or be it one hundred and one participants posting one nasty thing each, it's all the same stream of bullshit in the end. The only difference is the little name attached to the nonsense on the top left of the post. Anyone who feels that he has the power of the mobus vulgaris on an Internet board is in serious need of a flesh-and-blood real life.
Which is exactly what I have been tending to for the last two years, plus or minus a few brief returns to blow raspberries at the likes of Neilist. For too many years I wasted hours on the Internet boards. So many, in fact, that I began to fall into the same pit as many who came before me had fallen into. So, I decided to take a hike and focus on people with faces and voices and warm handshakes. People who matter to me.
So please don't pretend to know what really happened. Very few actually do -- and they found out directly from me. Mostly by phone. But only if they had the brass ones to pick up the phone and call me and tell me their real names and be real people instead of sock puppets from the land of Make Believe.
Have a nice day,
Quinn