Nov 21 2007
Of Carnivals And Mouthbreathers
Before I shut down, finish packing, and head out, the Carnival of Education will be at NYC Educator when it gets posted — at a decent hour, while I’m on the road. And speaking of NYC Educator, he and I were having a conversation about trolls. He’s been getting a lot of them lately, and what you may not know is that I get plenty of them. Here’s what I said to NYC Educator (you need to know, if you don’t already, that he’s a union man):
I have a policy. I don’t crap in other people’s yards. Now, I will take issue with an article on another blog if the reasoning or the data are bad, but I don’t do hit-and-runs. You can probably (and correctly) guess how I feel about unions, but you will notice that I have never “let it all hang out” on your blog.
I’ve had quite a few of those on mine. Usually, they end up in the moderation queue or Akismet catches them, and I delete them. I don’t care if somebody disagrees with me, but I do expect them to do so in a rational, calm, reasoned manner. Call me effete, but I tend to think civility a good thing.
Then, I got this in the queue today (I deleted the comment, but I’m going to post the whole thing, just to make the point):
A new comment on the post #4276 “My Ex-Students Are On Strike” is waiting for your approval
http://rightwingnation.com/2007/11/20/i-know-these-people/Author : Joe Momma (IP: 70.141.146.242 , 70.141.146.242)
E-mail : jjam@aol.com
URL :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=70.141.146.242
Comment:
Eat shit and die you freaking Bush loving asshole
Note that this was left on my article about the writers’ strike. The only thing in the comment that could be thought of as a topic is the President — the rest is just juvenile spewing. So do you see any reference, even tangential, to President Bush in that article? No? Neither do I.
I get these all the time. Like I said, if you want to disagree with me in a rational, reasonable manner, that’s great. But I will continue to delete all drive-by idiocy. If you want to demonstrate what a mouthbreathing infantile jackass you are, do it on your own blog.
2 responses so far
2 Responses to “Of Carnivals And Mouthbreathers”
I recently had a large influx of nonsense: http://jeffreyquick.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/to-the-elshamy-posse . I left it all there as it proved my point. Of course, those who think that truth is determined democratically will say, “That’s two votes for Quick, and 12 for Chris Elshamy; ergo, Quick is a jerk,” but I’m writing about those people, not for them.
I have a special troll. When I don’t post his comments, for reasons similar to what you’ve outlined, he chimes in with even more bile. *sigh* Why he doesn’t start his own “I hate Darren and even the air he breathes” blog, I don’t know.