He’s the exact same waffling douche he was last year and ages before that.
Never read a room in his entire life. It’s not that he’s incapable of learning. He puts blurting out bullshit before the needs of anyone else, including himself.
Toonzone staff wanted to spank me hard enough before I could get a fuckin’ tribal tat just to say “DO NOT QUOTE REPLY ME.” Well this is my own platform so now rules are off. Get the fuck out, stupid.
Let me say I understand why you are upset. I also want to thank you for not engaging flame wars on MY journal when Mike comments there. I don't mind his company so much, but I appreciate the fact that you never start anything in MY space even though you really dislike him.
I had a stalker on Toon Zone a few years ago and they followed me to Dreamwidth. I had to ban them and it was a really shitty situation all around. It's not a fun feeling.
I’m not someone who believes Flame Wars to be real. It’s obviously a web jock invented thing to deter online rudeness, but it’s the basic human condition for personalities to clash and insults to occur.
There’s harassment and then there’s life.
I don’t set out to divide and conquer. To me, he’s the lowest of the low. To you, he’s someone you can tolerate. My hatred of him (and believe me, I loathe...) doesn’t make it where I need to badger your hub with that mess. No one on that garbage site will talk to him so poor feller had to wander aimlessly.
I don't know about flame wars not being real. I'd like to believe that but the truth is every single protracted hostile back and forth I've gone through on the net has been a waste of time and energy for me. I think that is the difference to me between that and people just not getting along on general principle.
If it's an annoyance, it's what your talking about. If it's an emotionally draining thing that takes hours to navigate, it's a flame war. The second thing has happened to me more than once, many times on Toon Zone.
“Flame wars” seemingly wraps it in a bow to where someone can shut you down, but cuddles and hugs policy prevents you from saying your piece the way they did.
It’s always felt like an unfair advantage, and the person “flaming” was too careless to invent the term. It was the person trying and failing to be a sheep herder.
I don’t want this to be misconstrued as semantics or retelling of what we both saw before, because I’ve pretty much always felt this way. I don’t take away accountability for what I’ve said before, but I call a spade and spade when others accuse me of going too far.
Can I also say that although I get along with Mike well enough, it IS sometimes emotionally difficult for me when Toon Zone members show up on my journal. I feel my separation there was a loss for me and it often reminds me what I lost and makes me feel a little sad.
This is not to discourage old friends from showing up. It's just an acknowledgement that's it's hard.
For better or worse, you were the personality of the site. They lost that when they lost you.
I don’t want to sugarcoat this either. After all the thought you put into that board, they want to pretend on forum rule basis that you’ve never existed. It’s fucked. And I think there were a couple members that just had a parasocial attachment with you because of the heavy lifting you did.
To be truthful me being banned wasn't just a loss for me. I put a LOT of time and effort into that site, actually TALKED about cartoons, made thoughtful posts, did reviews, shared my comics, a whole bunch of good stuff. And now the site doesn't have that anymore.
When I appeal my ban next year and say my goodbyes for good I will let people know I believe I contributed a lot to that site. And that I think the site will be worse off for me being gone.
I'm not going to be posting status posts. My goodbyes will be mostly private. I'll update my Un-Iverse thread (and sort it out a bit) but I will not make my brief presence on the site a huge deal. I will just be there to get things in order. It will be more of a behind the scenes thing.
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Date: 2024-08-13 02:34 am (UTC)Never read a room in his entire life. It’s not that he’s incapable of learning. He puts blurting out bullshit before the needs of anyone else, including himself.
Toonzone staff wanted to spank me hard enough before I could get a fuckin’ tribal tat just to say “DO NOT QUOTE REPLY ME.” Well this is my own platform so now rules are off. Get the fuck out, stupid.
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Date: 2024-08-13 03:24 am (UTC)I had a stalker on Toon Zone a few years ago and they followed me to Dreamwidth. I had to ban them and it was a really shitty situation all around. It's not a fun feeling.
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Date: 2024-08-13 03:34 am (UTC)There’s harassment and then there’s life.
I don’t set out to divide and conquer. To me, he’s the lowest of the low. To you, he’s someone you can tolerate. My hatred of him (and believe me, I loathe...) doesn’t make it where I need to badger your hub with that mess. No one on that garbage site will talk to him so poor feller had to wander aimlessly.
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Date: 2024-08-13 03:41 am (UTC)If it's an annoyance, it's what your talking about. If it's an emotionally draining thing that takes hours to navigate, it's a flame war. The second thing has happened to me more than once, many times on Toon Zone.
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Date: 2024-08-13 03:54 am (UTC)It’s always felt like an unfair advantage, and the person “flaming” was too careless to invent the term. It was the person trying and failing to be a sheep herder.
I don’t want this to be misconstrued as semantics or retelling of what we both saw before, because I’ve pretty much always felt this way. I don’t take away accountability for what I’ve said before, but I call a spade and spade when others accuse me of going too far.
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Date: 2024-08-13 03:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-13 03:35 am (UTC)This is not to discourage old friends from showing up. It's just an acknowledgement that's it's hard.
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Date: 2024-08-13 03:44 am (UTC)I don’t want to sugarcoat this either. After all the thought you put into that board, they want to pretend on forum rule basis that you’ve never existed. It’s fucked. And I think there were a couple members that just had a parasocial attachment with you because of the heavy lifting you did.
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Date: 2024-08-13 03:50 am (UTC)When I appeal my ban next year and say my goodbyes for good I will let people know I believe I contributed a lot to that site. And that I think the site will be worse off for me being gone.
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Date: 2024-08-13 03:58 am (UTC)Oh, who am I kidding? They will. They can’t take negative feedback.
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Date: 2024-08-13 04:07 am (UTC)