just one of those thoughts

[egypturnash]

What would I do if a horde of net.bastards descended upon my LJ? I don't think they're at all likely to, as I keep my freakiness private or cloak it in irony - I don't wave my fetishes, sexual preferences, or delusions around for everyone to see. Not blatantly, at least - if I refer to my secrets in public, it's usually under at least one layer of metaphor.

I also doubt I'd be an entertaining target. I'm too well-spoken and cynical. If my life had been bent and broken differently, I might be a smug net.bastard myself. I think I'd probably just sigh, set comments to friends-only for a while, and put up an informational entry to that effect, that had an elliptical sneer at the people who caused me to do it.

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[protocat.livejournal.com]

I seriously doubt it'd happen.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I'm too damn sane to be any fun for that sort of thing.

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

People like that have their intellectual orgasms by prodding you to fight back. If you ignore that problem, unlike most problems, it *will* go away.

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Nothing is sacred. Those kinds of people, in general, descend on a designated target with the preconception that said target it a freak and an idiot, and evidence to the contrary tends to be ignored. Kind of funny since their targets tend to be more intelligent than they are, but every now and then there's a smart one who realizes the irony of the situation.

Is an elliptical sneer...

[(Anonymous)]

...anything like an hyperbolic moue?

(Or a parabolic grin?)

(Or a...fourth-order...Bessel function...look of dismay?...)

--Multiplication Rock

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

I considered the possibility recently. First thing I did was to set my LJ to screen anonymous comments. (Which means only I can see anonymous comments, until I either delete them or unscreen them. Best of both worlds, that... it lets people contribute to the discussion without having to have a LJ, but prevents anonymous thugs from getting any satisfaction by swarming me.)

If things got bad, I might set it to screen non-friend comments as well.

Re: just one of those thoughts

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I had mine set to screen all comments recently (I was asking for some very private advice from a small group of friends) and it was really annoying to unscreen comments on other entries!

I keep all my freakiness hidden, so it'd have to be a really slow day for PoE or SA or whatever other net.bastard sites are out there to target me, anyway.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd just lock my journal for a week or two. Problem solved.

Re: just one of those thoughts

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

It's so boring to be mature, isn't it. Simpler, though.

Re: just one of those thoughts

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

I just don't have the time to argue with those people. :D I'd love to stick it to 'em, but there's no real good way to.

[mandrill.livejournal.com]

I've followed your public journal for a while because I've enjoyed looking at your artwork and sketches. To be honest, your public journal seems very tame and quite sane (not to mention intelligent). I honestly can't imagine why anyone would want to target you anyway (unless they were just jealous of your splendidly-colored hair). :=) I really don't think you need to worry.

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

Obviously, I feel kinda conflicted about this thread. :) For the most part, it's been me that's picked the fights with the bastards -- I usually get more upset over them insulting other people than insulting me, 'cause I already know I don't care about their opinion. I insult their own pathetic hobby and -- irony of ironies -- they get defensive and turn on me. :p

Honestly, I think if you caught their eye, they'd start from "OMG FURRIE LOL" and work their way backwards. They're terribly good at "spotting" embarrassing things in people's journals, at magnifications that would make particle physicists blush, then running back to their own turf and pretending they've discovered something hilarious. Just the idea of a "furry" -- and thus, by definition, an obese fursuit-wearing arrested adolescent with no job and no sense of self-respect -- calling herself "well-spoken" could set some of these people off. "Look, she's so full of herself!"

But the odds of you maintaining their attention is pretty low. They'd have to have a reason to gawk in the first place. You do have a pretty low gawk factor, and you're too laid back to give them "Tar Baby" style entertainment by whining or fighting back. You need to provide a cheap thrill first, and brainy genderfucked artgirls aren't really that. Now, OTOH, if a subculture of Jazz Age flapper wannabes somehow arises in the next two months, with an easily identifiable stereotype and lots of snide epithets associated with them, you're screwed. :)

Personally, I prefer to fight back and give the sympathizers a laugh at their expense. The entertainment value to me is at least as great as it is to the bastards. :)

all the eyes that are watching watching

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

there are at leasthundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people online to pick from.. so why you? why anybody? ^_^

i would think if that if you do manage slip along through net.life unnoticed and unremarked upon, it has far less to do with any "too well-spoken and cynical" etc. merits.. since even that presumes the net.bastards are somehow aware of you.. but more to do with the fact that people simply don't know you exist. and won't. or don't care. and won't.

although it -is- entertaining to think about contingency plans for being the center of some sort of attention ^_^

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

You have to be a total egotistical freakjob like Lord Ryven to have your journal targeted by SA. If you keep your more personal posts friends only, it's unlikely such groups will even hear of your existence.

[laturner.livejournal.com]

If you find any, send them my way... I was really hoping for some drama fallout from my journal posting on Yerf applicant no-nos. Sigh.

[oceacat.livejournal.com]

While I have no desire to be affiliated with net.bastards, the notion of being part of a horde is rather appealing. So, please forgive me if I should suddenly decide to descend in a most horde-like manner. I promise to simulate only the appearance of horde-ness and will clean up after myself upon departure!

(Okay. I feel better now. What in the cyberworld spawned this thought of yours?)