Your Article Sucks

[grainnerhuad]

I should have probably put this down in "Your Art Sucks "but people, you really haven't been reading through and contributing to the boards lately. So I thought I'd put it at the top, because it's important, even if it isn't news.

Here's some good news though...People are coming through in droves from unexpected hidey holes to read us and this is very exciting.

Here's something else exciting, they also hate you, we and us. I know it's hard to at first glance take hate speech as a compliment but really a lot of us aspire to jihad status. We all want to be as famous as Salman Rushdie...maybe not for the same thing, but you understand right?

The thing is when people misunderstand you and don't like you, it is an opportunity for even more education and strangely enough they will come back to you again and again when they feel strongly affected by you. We don't know why...but we like it because eventually they either calm down and begin to see or they contribute their point of view. Other's point of view is something we should all be looking at, always.

Always.

It's important to remember not to engage in fighting or arm wrestling our attackers into understanding us. They don't want to, at least not at first. What they do know is they have been charged by what you wrote and they want their POV to be heard. This is the golden opportunity. They are thinking, sometimes only a little bit, but thinking.

We also have to recognize that what they say doesn't and shouldn't matter to us personally. I found this article through a friend and I think it puts it quite nicely:
jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/09/not-caring.html

So congratulations, Your work sucks ass, you are now a public figure, think about how to leverage this infamy to your best interest.

[The Late Mitchell Warren]

Yeah it's no use arguing with trolls and flamers. As a former troll myself, I enjoy grading their performances. Our Ron Paul trolls were OK, but hardly A-grade caliber.

[grainnerhuad]

Right I totally agree, they just recycled their same arguement inserting moron for dummy and the like. To be grade A they would have had to have different hatred for every entry.

[The Late Mitchell Warren]

Just a heads up in case you notice your troll message "edited"

Subversify publishes dissenting comments whenever possible in the name of free speech. But we reserve the right to delete absurd, hateful or pornographic replies. I guess with rising popularity comes rising troll population.

[karlsie]

Yeah, i kind of got discouraged with posting here when it began to feel like i was talking to myself. I can lock myself up for days or weeks poring over a manuscript, but forums are supposed to be conversational, and if we ain't going to converse, there's no sense in saying anything.

Which has nothing to do with trolls; which i kind of sort of like when they are clever trolls and can actually produce witty replies. But matching wits is rarely the objective of trolls. Ron's troll was mildly amusing, but rather limited in his ability to tackle any subject beyond his own private appraisal of intelligence, which eventually made him boring. Pornographic trolls, like the one who attacked Bill, simply need to get laid. He seemed rather fascinated with masturbation techniques.

I like it best when we receive spin doctors because i love calling them out. For too long, they warped the language of definitions until nobody knows what anything means anymore. They are trolls in a very sneaky way. As long as you don't realize they're spinning, they'll just keep knitting a longer thread until you're fully convinced your own work is in error. It's good when trolls come on board because than we receive a live illustration on how trolls operate; and consequently, how they influence public opinion.

[dylan]

I ate a cinnamon troll once. The den mother got mad because she said I was already too fat and people food wasn't good for me. Well, nobody had told me that trolls were people. Besides, how was I to know I wasn't supposed to eat the cinnamon troll? There it was, sitting on top of the stove, all nice, soft and warm, and not one of the den puppies was snarling or growling over it. Sometimes the den mother is completely unreasonable.

[grainnerhuad]

Dylan, would that we got some nice spicy cinnamon trolls. But no, ours are nasty, half baked ones that would hurt your tummy.