Barbelith Underground > Policy & Help

It's worth noting right now that the set of green people on Barbelith is in census terms as populated as the set of devout Christians who cannot bear to see the name of God written down by the unbeliever on Barbelith. But anyway.

How should I react?

Well, I'd start by getting out of the Policy. I'll state this confidently: your posts to the Policy recently, from Megatrongate to Jamaicagate to Christgate, have been of negligible or negative worth to Barbelith. You have consistently either generated or exacerbated conflict, and, quite simply, I don't think you are able to handle the kind of discussion that is required in the Policy.

I'm sorry. You're not alone in that, by any means, and it's unfortunate that you've put yourself in the spotlight like this, but you've done so by inserting yourself into situation after situation and demanding attention. You are not adding to the quality of discussion in the Policy, and by demanding that others deal with you here, you're soaking up time that could be spent doing more useful things for Barbelith.

I'm afraid that you don't seem open to learning. In the post above, you have already given yourself one way out of listening to people - I imagine that anything you do not want to listen to will be discarded as "personal". You are threatening to "treat others as they are treating you", as if you had not already become abusive and aggressive in thread after thread when your ideas were subjected to criticism. I do not personally believe that any suggestion that you do not like will be considered by you, and that you will justify that decision not to consider it in terms of the failings of others, rather than yourself.

You will now respond to this by telling me, probably based on some eccentric readings of previous threads, that I am doing just what I am telling you that you are doing, that I am therefore a hypocrite and that there is no need for you to listen to me. That is unfortunate, but unavoidable.

However. My suggestions:

1) Listen to your friend Stoatie. He's a cool guy.
2) Stop posting in the Policy. Possibly for ever, certainly for some time.
3) Stop mimicking "academic speech" - I had assumed that this was your natural speech pattern, and it's something of a relief that it is not. However, your attempts to fit your speech to what you see as the required standard on Barbelith may be contributing to your incomprehensibility. Just try being yourself for a bit. See how it goes.
4) Stop talking about hatred. I don't see anyone here who hates you. If you can't find someone saying "Paranoidwriter, I hate you", don't assume that you can claim hatred. Apply this standard to all the terminology you have used.

Moderating for taste