Re: A.A.P.C. FOLKLORE, Part Seven

Michael Pendragon wrote:
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> The True Melissa <[email protected]> posted:
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>> Michael Pendragon wrote in article <1786978462-17124
>> @newsgrouper.org>:
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>>> Not only does this give the Donkey a break, but it creates the
>>> illusion that A.A.P.C. is broken into factions, when the truth
>>> is that it's really Will Donkey vs ... everyone else.
>>
>> I'm sorry to have to say it, but a bigger part of that illusion
>> is the foulmouthed flaming. I understand your anger. I completely
>> and totally get the anger and frustration. It creates a
>> misleading first impression, though.
>>
> 
> Definitely!
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> Will Donkey picks fight with people specifically so that he can play the victim.
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> He's not trying to fool other members so much as he's trying to fool himself.
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> As long as Will can convince himself that everyone here is a "malicious troll," he can dismiss any negative comments his poetry has received as trolling.
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>> When I first started reading this group, my impression was that
>> Will was defending himself from an army of nasty flamers, and I
>> thought maybe he only had to be taught not to feed trolls. I was
>> foolish/stubborn enough to stick around and try to teach him
>> netiquette, and I gradually saw for myself, but what if I had
>> more sense? If I had sense, I would have just walked right back
>> out, and I'd still think this group was one naive guy fighting a
>> bunch of enemies for unknown reasons.
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> Agreed.
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> He had me fooled (and defending him) for three years.
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> And it's easy to see why it works -- after all, for the past 25 years A.A.P.C. has pretty much been one guy defending himself against a bunch of "trolls."
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> It takes a while to recognize that the "trolls" are actually the members of a group that his been run into the ground by a jackass.
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>> I know you've abandoned Usenet and probably don't really care,
>> but FWIW, that's what I see.
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> You're absolutely right.
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> And Cujo also sums it up nicely below.
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> Those of us who are still here are only here to laugh at the Donkey.
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> Which makes us the "trolls" and Will Donkey the victim.
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> The weird thing is that it's actually a win-win situation (not the best win-win, obviously, but a win-win all the same): Will Donkey gets to be the center of attention and we get to have some fun making sport of him.
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