One of the people I work with called me infuriated that someone was boasting of stealing our content for his profit online.Awesome: Now an imaginary friend is responsible for his spastic freakout. He seems to be ignoring the screencap that shows the blog entry linked above was posted under his name.
That made me sick but not as sick until I read his blog post about it here. I unpublished that immediately and explained to him that real criminals don't advertise this sort of thing and that he was being a goat. The end. Hope nobody was offended. I have no wish to see anyone's name come up in Google results for goofing around on the web. Suppress for the guy's sake by all accounts. God save me from my friends.
One of the people I work with called me infuriated that someone was boasting of stealing our content for his profit online.So, now you are pawning this all off onto your "friend," who published some nonsense on your weblog, under your byline. And not, by the way, actually admitting that CC didn't even joke about stealing your shitty content.
That made me sick but not as sick until I read his blog post about it here. I unpublished that immediately and explained to him that real criminals don't advertise this sort of thing and that he was being a goat. The end. Hope nobody was offended. I have no wish to see anyone's name come up in Google results for goofing around on the web. Suppress for the guy's sake by all accounts. God save me from my friends.
One of the people I work with called me infuriated that someone was boasting of stealing our content for his profit online.posted by paisley henosis at 12:13 PM on April 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
That made me sick but not as sick until I read his blog post about it here. I unpublished that immediately and explained to him that real criminals don't advertise this sort of thing and that he was being a goat. The end. Hope nobody was offended. I have no wish to see anyone's name come up in Google results for goofing around on the web. Suppress for the guy's sake by all accounts. God save me from my friends.
Bless you all, I am grateful when you stop by, and we have made endless amount of friends through wrongcards. At the end of the day the site is for you all. Plz forgive when our judgment is wrong.
SighsI don't know about the rest of you, but this strikes me as the exact opposite of how this post should read. Frankly, I think shutting up would have been better than to keep picking the scab, and playing the "it wasn't me" and "I'm such a victim of this being talked about" cards.
By kris on April 22nd, 2009
Yesterday a friend who helps administer the site fired off a crazy rant at a user of a popular forum. I have this strange suspicion that he has some sort of problem with this forum, like he's sure they collectively murdered his mother or something. I don't understand this type of behaviour. I spent all yesterday trying to work it out. We have a couple of administrators and any of them can post as me or any other name they want, but I guess my name is selected by default. I'm sure he didn't think he was causing me harm. I don't think that's how crap like this gets started. I take full responsibility for it though, and I unpublished that rant within minutes, but it was too late. It's hard to get good help in this world. Especially free help. It may also seem weird to any reader that I didn't even know there was a comments section turned on on the blog page. I think it's recent, the past month or two, but it's invisible whenever I'm logged in. Mostly I just talk about rubbish so I don't expect comments to appear anyway. I got all the comments people wrote yesterday via email and thought they were emailing me via the contact form. Some of them were too abusive to keep. I wound up working out how to turn it off. I'll probably shut down the blog in a few days and just do visual art in future. I don't have much ability in blogging and it takes a lot of time.
So I create the wrongcards. I write boring essays about philosophy in the blogs, but I don't spend much time at this site. I'm sorry people were upset. The offended party turned out to be cool though, and the guilty party won't be having anything to do with wrongcards in future. I have slow mood swings and I don't comprehend these people who get so angry at other people over nothing, even when it's allegedly in my defense. But I'm strangely not that disappointed and I think this type of person who overreacts to imaginary offenses is a phenomenon that a lot of people will be familiar with. Some people love to be angry, they're just walking around looking for a reason.
For months I've also been getting these emails about how I disrespect Jesus - it's been going on for a while now and I'm getting jaded about negative feedback.
But I can see how these people were praising us then felt like they were attacked for no good reason, and I imagine they must have felt that the happy-go-lucky creator of the wrongcard was ungracious. That's reasonable from their perspective. Second thing, I can't help appreciating that an online community rallied around one of its members, because most just tear each other to shreds all day. From my perspective I felt that some good traffic came along, and then something I could not foresee happened to spoil the entire day for me, as well as the poor guy who got ranted at. At least he and I share a similar sense of humour (UPDATE: At risk of being hated by people without one I just did him a card ... heh). I'm not superstitious but I'm only half joking when I say that perhaps this site is jinxed, maybe its the wrongcards with dead birds on them. Things like that upset people. Maybe those guys are right and Jesus really disapproves of this stuff after all. If you still think I'm evil then I can't do anything about it anymore. Some people are just going to be angry anyway, just like some people are going to be depressed or elated - they'll just find their reasons where they can. Those who are angry just won't be coming back here.
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