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

Michael Pendragon wrote in article <1787058813-17124
@newsgrouper.org>:
> 
> The True Melissa <[email protected]> posted:
> 
> > Michael Pendragon wrote in article <1786978462-17124
> > @newsgrouper.org>:
> > 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!
> 
> Will Donkey picks fight with people specifically so that he can play the victim.
> 
> He's not trying to fool other members so much as he's trying to fool himself.
> 
> 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.

Exactly.  Everyone has to be a troll so that he remains perfect. 

 
> He had me fooled (and defending him) for three years.

Heh, I remember defending him to you. :-)

It's a life cycle, I guess. 

 
> 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."
> 
> 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.

The FAQ is helpful. It's easy to see why he didn't want me to 
read the FAQ (or talk to you) and kept pushing the old one as 
"official" somehow. 


> Those of us who are still here are only here to laugh at 
> the Donkey.

Well, I was hoping for poetry, but I've given up now. :-) There 
is still some poetry on Usenet, but it's elsewhere for obvious 
reasons. 

 
> Which makes us the "trolls" and Will Donkey the victim.
> 
> 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.

I think that's true of most people who feed trolls. They enjoy 
the idea that they're important enough to attract detractors. 
I've seen many different narcissistic types bragging that 
everyone is obsessed with them, though the time spent on them is 
very little.  


-- 
The meek shall inherit, we're told,
But I'm not so easily sold.
For supposing they should,
It would do them no good --
They'd lose it at once to the bold.