trunksbrando wrote:
you know katie at first i had no problem with you at all, if you remember the post where i titled it "why does everyone hate katie so much?" well everyone told me why and now i realize it to! ...
Why, I do remember that thread. I'm unswayed: I can't see the big deal. I'm sure I don't know the whole history of Katie, but I just can't see the fixation with her that so many of you have. It is really an ugliness to this board, which has so much funky, ecclectic energy.
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This really isn't usual message board behavior. You can look at http://www.flamewarriors.com/ for example, to see generic characterizations of internet messageboard participants. Conspicuous by it's absence is: someone everybody hates but can't explain why.
At http://slashdot.org we had Microsoft supporters. It is generally a bastion of Microsoft bashers, and you'd have people who would get into prolonged flamewars over MS everytime a new patch was sneezed out. And these people would certainly qualify as "targets" in the flamewarriors catagory - but they could talk about, say, gun control and people wouldn't dredge up other topics to discredit them.
A few posts back, I read someone asking if Katie's new husband is beating her yet. In what context is this okay behavior? Sure, if she was responsible for the massacre in Rawanda, perhaps, but her posts don't have enough content?
This message board is like what J. Seinfeld said about
Seinfeld, the show: it is about nothing. Only rule is that we can't bring up questions about specific MMORPG's which are covered by other forums - but people do - all the time - and they don't get flamed like this.
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edit: to fix my italics. Why oh why can't we all just agree about the direction of slashes? Edited, Thu Apr 22 14:48:56 2004 by yossarian