|
huh? i don't have jackshit against you ng, so i don't know if you're directly addressing me with the latter portion of that response or not. i would assume not, because otherwise it makes no sense.
i honestly don't know the full backstory to all the drama that is apparently surrounding this little feud, and i'll readily admit i have virtually no interest in trying to figure it out. i am saying that i don't think its viable to dismiss the possibility of the entire C:A forum because some bad blood came to the surface in its initial phases. i would predict that in 3 months, if C:A is still floating around this whole thing will be nothing, other than perhaps an inside joke.
i'm reminded of a thread that popped up several months ago. i can't remember exactly what it was, but i believe it was one of the umpteen "smoking/no smoking / polite to smokers / smokers should all eat shit and die" threads going on. king made some typical off-color, smartass king comment - that wouldn't have caused anyone to bat an eye around here a couple of years ago. however, almost everyone in the thread came jumping down, and i think it was politicophile in particular, about how horrible the comment was, and particularly from a moderator, and how could this behavior be tolerated, and won't someone think of the children?
i think that the atmosphere around here has become almost too high-brow, in some of the conversations, to allow for the levity that can also come with the internet communication format. i think C:A allows people to exhibit that playful side of their personalities. its probably not for everyone, but for some people its fun. i don't know - i told jj he was a bucket of puss or some such shit, and he's promised vengence on me several times.
i'm sure its because i have a different perspective being on the outside of it, but i've had people say some pretty rude things to me on these forums as well. in particular, i've had a few sparring matches with knifemissile about atheism - he's insinutated a few times that i'm a dumbass on the subject. hell, he may be right. i've told him to eat it a few times, not in so many words. but somehow i can still shoot the shit with him across threads too. i don't know, i just don't get the melodramatic element of it...maybe i'm just used to kicking shit at my friends as a way of keeping each other deflated.
regardless, that sort of interaction isn't encouraged or tolerated here at tfp, so if people want to indulge it somewhere else, i don't really see the harm. no one has to get involved. i can't speak for others, but i don't see it changing my perspective on anyone involved in it too much - people are too complex for me to have believed that they were limited by their portrayals in this tfp space to begin with - so i'm not too surprised when a different face appears elsewhere. i actually kind of like it, but i'm just whacky like that. i don't expect y'all to be perfect.
__________________
You don't love me, you just love my piggy style
|