Using this account only because if you're going to air dirty laundry, at least air the boilerplate. mk - I thought the whole point of shout-outs while muted was to "invite the vampire in." When did that change?
I have no opinion one way or another on why the guy left, seemed over the top to be honest. kleinbl00 I did find your article very interesting though and I seem to remember either reading it or something similar you posted way way back. One thing that strikes me is that, by your own explanation, you have an online persona that communicates with other online personas in a completely different manner to your offline life. I say personas rather than persons because from your perspective, you don't know the other person, you only know what they have written and you speak (discuss, argue, educate, annihilate) directly to that rather than the person behind it. I would guess this comes about from being a very active member of several online communities for a long period of time. You have an evolved sense of online self which I would guess is not the case with many of those you interact with. From my own perspective this is not how I or indeed many others view their "online persona". For some our online personas are simply an extension of our offline personalities, We try to communicate online exactly as we do in real life. For some others they have an even less sophisticated online self which, due to the de-inhibiting nature of anonymity results in them becoming assholes. If I had to guess why people tend to take your comments to heart its down to them falling into either of the 2 groups I mentioned above. They view your tirades as either a direct attack on them as a person, or they view it as a direct attack on their online asshole and react accordingly. This results in hurt feelings, sore asses and emotional explosions all wrapped up in a text box of impotent post rage. Its not for me to say whether your tactic is right or wrong because I have never encountered any context where applying that mechanism of aggression-as-time-saver would be a realistic option. I do admire the efficiency of it all though and the time you invested in it. Switching topic, this whole 'hubski is kleins and not your thing' is BS. I read a lot of stuff on hubski, I rarely post because honestly I don't have the fucking time :(. Right now hubski is a collection of people who interact on a pretty personal level, I have a sense of each of the more active persons on the site and what their interests are. Compare that to other sites where its a shotgun blast of unknown, unknowable strangers commenting and then disappearing forever into a void... klein is one of the reasons I visit this site but if he left I would still be here. The same can be said for many others regardless of their follower count which matters little IMO.
From my own perspective this is not how I or indeed many others view their "online persona". For some our online personas are simply an extension of our offline personalities, We try to communicate online exactly as we do in real life. For some others they have an even less sophisticated online self which, due to the de-inhibiting nature of anonymity results in them becoming assholes. i recall similar talk from kleinbl00 a while ago. it was in a thread made by a first time poster and it detailed some heavy personal life stuff. klein and others thought of it as a failure because the user starting their "hubski persona" with such a post seemed gauche. i remember finding it really interesting seeing these concepts discussed so starkly. i will try finding the thread but i do not trust my searching capabilities.You have an evolved sense of online self which I would guess is not the case with many of those you interact with.
I think the "vampire invite" may need to be either in a comment or by someone that doesn't have you muted. We definitely haven't intentionally done away with it. Test: kleinbl00
You know, I've never seen any of the twilight films, am I missing out? At this point I sort of wear it as a badge of honor.
You my friend should start watching all the old Mystery Science Theater 3000's on YouTube. Start with Mitchell and play around from there. They're all gold.
Where do I find it straight through and not just snippets? Help, I'm old and stuff.
I've never seen them or read the books. I read this rationalist retelling of the series instead, and thought it was great. So I now have nothing but positive mental associations with Twilight.
That's kind of awesome. I'ma check that out. There was a brief shining period when Breaking Dawn was going to happen but hadn't quite happened where this piece was completely hilarious.
It's long and as strange as you'd guess. Eminently worth it, though. I accidentally got deep into the rationalist fiction community (which means anything from the denser side of Yudkowsky to merely making sure your plots are idiot ball-proof) and am really loving the output. Scions include Ra HPMoR Worm This retelling of Superman (?) and Luminosity. Turns out you don't have suspend disbelief to write/read good fiction!
My favorite is HPMoR, which imo is the most well written. Worm is second best although...substantial. Honestly, I couldn't get into a lot of the other ones because of the "fan fic style" they're written in, it immediately takes me out of the story. Have you read any Neal Stephenson (I'm sure you have)? He has a similar writing style.
I actually watched 2 of them with my sisters. The cinema was in the next jewish town - now that I write this, I wonder if there is a cinema in any major arabic town in israel, whatever - and the bus connections were inconvenient (back then, 3 buses a day), so I HAD to drive my sisters to the cinema. And there was no other movie in parallel blabla... In short, it was either wait outside, drive back home, or watch the movie. So I did. Sitting there as the only guy between teenage girls and soccer moms. It felt weird, but I kinda got into the mood of the movie. You know, when a story sucks you in even though it's dumb and you have popcorn. Until this guy (Edward?) walked into sunlight for the first time. He fucking started to glitter. I totally lost it. Laughed so hard I started coughing up the popcorn I had just eaten. All around me the girls were giving me the deathray vision and loudly calling "shushhhh". I behaved after that, as well as I could. One of the funniest unexpected moments I ever had. Now that I spoiled the surprise, I would not reccomend watching the movie. Totally predictable, except for glittering vampires.
Yeah, that's the way it's always been. You should only be able to reply to the person that invited you in. Edit: but no matter where I go, I can still reply
-that's strange. Even on comments where you were not shouted-out?