Oh my god I'm impressed

[burntcopper]

We've got an absolute special shiny princess over on robinhoodbbc.
Apparently it is too difficult to read the userinfo to find out the rules of a comm. Even though she's posted before and run afoul of said rules several times, according to her.

And I should be putting the rules in a more obvious place than a link in the sidebar near the top that says 'rules'.

Also the tag names are insulting. And hurtful.

I'm rude. (Hi, this is wider than 300 pixels. Put it behind a cut-tag or I'm deleting it.) and thus am not fit to run a community because I don't communicate in the way she wants.

It gets better further down when she responds to someone else's 'how is that line difficult to read?' comment.

I would have left this community long ago but, alas, this is the only still really active RH community that hasn't any sort of preference (nothing wrong with preferences, of course!) and you cannot honestly say that you think the profile is well structured and easy to read. If every time I want to post something, I have to read this entire text again and again and again because I am looking for one small thing ... sry but ... urg >.<

not to mention I do not fancy being called brainless and stupid; the fact that a moderator does it is, in my eyes, even worse.

oh, *special* snowflake. 1381 other people can read it.

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[gmh.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. Ahahahahaha.

You're HOWWIBLE an' MEAN to me, just because *I'm* a precious flower and you're not and you're JEALOUS! It's so UNFAIR that you expect me to read all that word stuff and rules when everyone else has always allowed me to do EXACTLY what I want! If you don't stop what you're doing *right* *now* and soothe my wounded feelings with crawling apologies then *I* *SHALL* *FLOUNCE* - and everyone else in the entire world will also realise that you're horrible and jealous and have no friends! Waaa!

There are times when xkcd's idea seems like a really good one. Especially if the moron's post could be read out in the tones of a bratty snivelling eight-year-old.

(Mind you, it is pretty funny that Youtube are actually implementing the feature described.)

[gmh.livejournal.com]

Ooo, and now she's ... (dun dun duuun!) on the warpath!

'Believe me or not, I can read'

- yes, and so can many five-year-olds.

'But if I say I am sick and tired of reading through the entire profile page each and every time I want to post something'

- then I'd say that you have a memory span more commonly associated with a goldfish - perhaps your local aquarium might the best place to express yourself among kindred spirits?

'because one has no idea where to look for what one wants to know'

- the About: section is hardly Tolstoy. It runs to just 325 words, many of which are short and simple. As such, expecting people to read it and remember much of it is actually fairly reasonable.

It could also be noted that this dingbat has so far posted 654 words of whiny, ill-written and repetitious justifications as to why she should have the right to special treatment over and above anyone else.

Which, presumably, she expects other people to read (and decipher in some places)...


'I am sorry but ... I don't see that I am in the wrong.'

Firstly; you're not sorry. If you were, a simple apology would have sufficed. The fact that you're continuing to bitch after the fact indicates that, frankly, the whole community can go to hell as long as you get the last word in.

Secondly; that's the life story of every special little flower out there; and a major lesson in growing the hell up is to realise that you can be wrong too; yes, even you.


'I have spoken to some of the others and the way you treat people makes most of us scared to post something.'

- Oooh! The Lurkers! Knew they'd be around here!

A moderator's job is to moderate, sweetie.

If you're not motivated to behave by them, then they're not doing their job properly.


'And you'd better learn to deal with it without exploding all over the place each and every time.'

- My dear, if you think that was an explosion, I've a whole pyrotechnic Wonderland in reserve.

Nice touch with the implied threat, too; 'you'd better learn to deal with it'.

Or what? I get to carry around the lifelong guilt of having upset an immature drama queen with the mental faculties of fridge mould?

How will I live another day!? Oh woe, woe is me!

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

This has had me going round with a giant grin on my face all morning. Especially when everyone else weighs in.

Best bit is where she insists over and over again that I've called her brainless and stupid, which is a phrase I've never used in my life. and she hopes I'm not this bitchy and more tolerant of human error in Real Life. I didn't feel the need to tell her I'm actually less tolerant and it's my job to smack down people in my team who make mistakes. According to her userinfo she's 20. I hope she learns soon.

I know! the lurkers are on her side! (the non-lurking comm members are *weird*. They leave fannish adoration comments on my tantrum posts. And deduct points for such things as lack of hangover or excessive niceness.)

One of them has posted 'I'm in a jail cell doing time for arson. no-one told me it was wrong! There wasn't a big sign up! How am I supposed to know?'

[gmh.livejournal.com]

This has had me going round with a giant grin on my face all morning. Especially when everyone else weighs in.

It's the way that the most objectionable ones are also the ones who try hardest to dig themselves out of a hole; they're slaving away at the bottom of a yawning pit whilst all the sane ones are standing on the edge pointing and laughing.

I did wonder about the 'brainless and stupid' bit, as a casual scan through her previous output didn't yield anything. Quite apart from all else, the phrase is verging on redundant repetition; which is her hallmark, not anyone else's.

I did notice that she was twenty (going on five); but really, you play in the grown-up pool, you act like a grown-up; and I know of any number of teenagers (such as knowitall_teen) who've known that since before they were teenagers.

As a mod, it gives you a lovely warm feeling when people give you style points for LARTing the foolish; I moderated a political forum for 5 years in the late '90s and there were any number of times when we had to wade in before things got turned into a sea of petty bitching.

I think a lot of regular users do really appreciate knowing that there's a dragon lurking at the bottom of the garden, too; that the good order of the forum is maintained by someone who has the will and the ability to incinerate precisely, completely (and creatively) anyone being Persistently Clueless In Public.

It also adds a certain spice to proceedings generally; I think that the worst thing that can ever happen to any public discussion is when the Fluffy Bunnies take over and turn everything into a nauseating mush composed entirely of self-regarding Pablum; any where any actual critical comment is frowned upon because it might hurt somebody's feelings.

(Slight apologies for a trivial factual error in the previous; the userinfo actually has 326 words, not 325; I was still a bit woozy this morning.)

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

reel them out and then cut 'em off.

yeah. I was expected to behave like an adult and use adult reasoning and arguments from a very small age if I wanted to be taken seriously. On the other hand, several of our customers appear not to have learnt this yet.

yeah, the majority of feedback I've got tends to be 'it's simple, it's kept under control, so eminently less drama.'

:shudder: perhaps I should pick up some slippers from Spamalot while it's still on to combat such a threat.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

She really needs to learn that the people who whine tend to get everyone else putting the earplugs in and then going 'sorry, have you finished yet?'