Morrigel
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Joined: 10/13/2006 Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Najakcharmer Morrigel - the Internet is always going to be full of annoying people. You can choose to be angry at those people and take what they say personally, or you can choose to be amused by them. In this particular case, I've chosen to be largely indifferent, and then briefly amused--many thanks to you on that score. Not sure why everyone feels the need to lecture me on "anger", really. I find the posting behavior of certain people irritating, I will admit, but this is almost always because they are destroying a thread in which I had some personal interest, and derailing any kind of intelligent or helpful discussion. Often they do this by posting personally malicious off-topic bashing of the OP, his/her personal kink, life philosophy, or ideas. Not even a funny or positive threadjack--just nasty, stupid, meaningless shit. Thus far, the only defense offered for this behavior appears to be "Well, this boy is popular around here" or "That guy has been here a long time" or "everyone is entitled to post". And I'm sorry, but I still find this crap rude and obnoxious, and these excuses don't really cut it with me. I am interested in bondage and female supremacy, I will freely admit: I am not interested in forum soap opera bs or woman-bashing or personally malicious baiting. And I am never going to be thrilled when threads that should be interesting or informative are transformed, by the anti-Midas touch of certain posters, into rivers of purest shit. Regardless, the fact that I find thread-jacking behavior irritating does not mean I am "angry" or that I take this behavior "personally". As soon as the behavior stops--so does my irritation. I do not hold grudges, I do not keep score, and I do not suffer from the delusion that I "know" anyone who posts here, nor that I have any reason to dislike them as a person. Someone wants to post something that entertains or enlightens me? Wonderful. I don't care what they posted last week, so long as they have posted a good thread or a worthwhile response today. I have no time or energy for anything BUT forgiveness, on that score. *shrug* Whatever. I joined a site called "Collarme.com" because I am interested in BDSM. If I was looking for a forum where every potentially interesting thread was automatically destined to be jacked by one person who is far more interested in himself than in BDSM, I would have gone looking for a site called "The Good Dog Benji Show". Yes, I can easily ignore one or two posts, especially if they are directed solely at me, and for the most part I do ignore anyone who is content to keep his blather to a minimum. It is far more difficult to ignore the people, however, when they are seriously degrading the whole environment, by destroying one of the few threads posted this week which actually held any interest for me. --M
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