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Thing is, Haus, nobody else here felt compelled to describe my following, entirely sensible post in Policy:
I'd argue for unlocking it [Deviant's thread], and also for those who might usually scoff to go easy on anybody who posts passionate, reading-Sebastian-O-changed-my-life type stuff in it. While it's tempting to poke fun at overenthusiastic fans, it might also be a bit alienating to younger / newer members of the board. Barbelith's surely a big enough place to host one gentle-on-the-swingball-set thread?
as a diktat, probably because it, erm, wasn't. When I pointed out, again entirely sensibly and without rancour, that what I posted wasn't a diktat, and that the unattributed, bolded quote from the wifegate thread was not my words, nobody else felt compelled to dredge up a partial and partisan history of my interaction with board. There are of course many possible reasons for you doing this, and only you know your own motivation. Maybe you felt angry because I pointed out (quite pleasantly at that - I even called you clever) that you misused the word diktat, and your reaction should be read through this lens? Who knows? Thing is, it's only human to misuse words like diktat from time to time, or to only use words like, say, douche in their limited, vaginal sense. All of us do it, even - as that wifegate chappy so hilariously denied - Grant Morrison.
I'm really not sure that any effort I might be making to improve what you call my reputation on Barbelith necessarily involves making an apology to you. You'd be the first to agree, I imagine, that Barbelith and Haus are not the same thing at all. Barbelith, for example, didn't misuse the word diktat, Barbelith didn't react to me gently pointing out that misuse by selectively quoting my contributions to past threads to paint me in a particularly unflattering light, and Barbelith doesn't, in general, appear to have a habit of following me from thread to thread and banging on about name-changes, douches, and real live tigers, whether warranted or not.
It's of course your call use the 'edit post' function to read my posts in Policy, fearful as you appear to be that I am a troll, and that Policy it is a place where trolling is particularly damaging. However, the post of mine to which you responded, and which I bolded at the beginning of this post, was in no way trollsome. You, though, either a) purposefully decided to mislabel it as a diktat, in which case you were trolling me, and owe me an apology, or b) you don't really know what a diktat is.
Doubtless, you are glad you have me on permanent ignore in all forums apart from Policy. When you do use the 'edit post' function to read my posts here (heavy lies the crown, and all that), it might be better for all concerned if you ignored me when I'm being sensible. Note that I wrote 'might be' - the last thing I'd want is for you to accuse me of being a diktator. |
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