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

> The True Melissa wrote:
> Michael Pendragon wrote in article <1787058813>:
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>> The True Melissa <thetruemelissa> posted:
>> 
>> Michael Pendragon wrote in article <1786978462>:
>> 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.




The upside is (as you know) that a large number of the A.A.P.C. poets can be found posting and discussing their poetry in the "A Year of Sundays" Facebook group.

So A.A.P.C. does live on... just in a different forum. 


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