Earlier this week I submitted a series of comments to a "
a right-wing blog. I had a great deal of fun, kept my comments clean, non-pejorative and too the point, and enjoyed tying the blog proprietor and his fellow denizens of the right-wing echo chamber tied up in knots. Imagine my surprise when "leftcoastrebel" responded by deleting my politely-worded posts, merely because they exposed the often comically absurd fallacies in his thinking. Within less than a day, LeftCoastRebel moved to an even more extreme form of censorship - he turned his blog into a "moderated forum" and refused to accept my posts. Because leftcoastrebel's actions reveal him not to be a real "rebel" in any meaningful way, I have decided to call my new blog "leftcoastnotsorebel" I will, from time to time, use this blog to comment on LCP's own posts. (Perhaps I should instead call this blog "fish in a barrel") Who knows? Perhaps I may even find something else to write about.
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Nyp, I have banned two people at my blog in the last four years of blogging. The reason is that they took up too much of my time, wanting to argue minutiae and making major issues out of trivialities. Before I banned them, however, I tried to have a discussion with them and spent a great deal of time writing prolific responses to their comments. It did no good, as they either wouldn't accept my explanations or answers, or they would come up with new ones that were as trivial as the ones before.
ReplyDeletePeople who do this to you are called "trolls" whose desire is to waste your time and piss you off. They do not desire any real discussion. I think LCR sees you that way.
Gee, I always thought a "troll" was a good thing! My thoughts on this point are set forth in a comment on one of your other posts. But I will note here that if LeftCoastRebel did not want to waste time responding to my comments all he had to do was not respond. The problem was not that my comments trafficked in minutiae, but that they trafficked in relevancies. They got to the heart of LCP's less-than-well-thought-out posts, and debunked them. The comments were not an inconvenience to LCP, they were an embarassment. And so they had to go.
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