You know what? I'm pissed.
Mar. 10th, 2004 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Anyone who has read my lookie should know I have a BIG BOLD DISCLAIMER up about how blah blah blah autistic blah blah blah rudeness blah blah blah shut the fuck up.
Now, this disclaimer has a long history. Way back when, I posted a lot on I&S on Neopets. And I corrected people's spelling. ALL THE TIME. Sometimes because I had to spell it correctly to understand it, and sometimes because I didn't like the person and wanted to annoy them (I admit it now). And then I'd laugh as they tried to correct me, invariably being wrong or irritated that I really didn't give a. Unlike them.
I also told off people for scamming, spamming, and being stupid. But not in those words. I was perfect, nearly. And occasionally, I appear to have driven people to tears. I'd feel sad, except that I don't know these people, and I only know about them because of this standard exchange:
Random person: U MAD MAH FREIND CRY!!!!111 Y R U SO ROOD?
Me: Um, who are you, who is your friend, what did I say?
Random person: U NO WAT U SED!!!!!!!11111one
Me: No, I don't. I post on a lot of boards. Could you please tell me what board you're talking about?
Random person: (creative cursewords) MEEN!
The few times I found out what I'd said, it either turned out to be a misunderstanding, or the person DESERVED to be insulted (yes, posting chain letters is rude. yes, posting scams is wrong. yes, what you said WAS a scam, and it's nicer to tell you than to just report you and get you frozen). Most times, though, I only ever got yelled at by proxy for something I couldn't even remember. And occasionally, I was definitely in the wrong. Maybe I'd been PMSy, or tired, or just stupid, I'm not that perfect. But mostly it was a misunderstanding on somebody's part.
So I invented the disclaimer. The first part, about AS, was designed to keep me from explaining this individually to EVERY justified complaint (and avoid hearing "well, you still shouldn't be rude!!!" when I didn't and/or don't think I was), the second was supposed to remind people to be sensible instead of stupid.
More recently, somebody who shall remain unnamed called me rude and then steadfastly refused to explain why. Nevermind that calling other people rude IS rude, is it so hard to say "oh, this is what you said"? Gah!
So, now I've got the longass disclaimer, and I hate it. Makes me look like a whiny snot. Obviously, I need to find a way to tread that thin line between "this explains what happened" and "I'm making excuses"
Help?
Now, this disclaimer has a long history. Way back when, I posted a lot on I&S on Neopets. And I corrected people's spelling. ALL THE TIME. Sometimes because I had to spell it correctly to understand it, and sometimes because I didn't like the person and wanted to annoy them (I admit it now). And then I'd laugh as they tried to correct me, invariably being wrong or irritated that I really didn't give a. Unlike them.
I also told off people for scamming, spamming, and being stupid. But not in those words. I was perfect, nearly. And occasionally, I appear to have driven people to tears. I'd feel sad, except that I don't know these people, and I only know about them because of this standard exchange:
Random person: U MAD MAH FREIND CRY!!!!111 Y R U SO ROOD?
Me: Um, who are you, who is your friend, what did I say?
Random person: U NO WAT U SED!!!!!!!11111one
Me: No, I don't. I post on a lot of boards. Could you please tell me what board you're talking about?
Random person: (creative cursewords) MEEN!
The few times I found out what I'd said, it either turned out to be a misunderstanding, or the person DESERVED to be insulted (yes, posting chain letters is rude. yes, posting scams is wrong. yes, what you said WAS a scam, and it's nicer to tell you than to just report you and get you frozen). Most times, though, I only ever got yelled at by proxy for something I couldn't even remember. And occasionally, I was definitely in the wrong. Maybe I'd been PMSy, or tired, or just stupid, I'm not that perfect. But mostly it was a misunderstanding on somebody's part.
So I invented the disclaimer. The first part, about AS, was designed to keep me from explaining this individually to EVERY justified complaint (and avoid hearing "well, you still shouldn't be rude!!!" when I didn't and/or don't think I was), the second was supposed to remind people to be sensible instead of stupid.
More recently, somebody who shall remain unnamed called me rude and then steadfastly refused to explain why. Nevermind that calling other people rude IS rude, is it so hard to say "oh, this is what you said"? Gah!
So, now I've got the longass disclaimer, and I hate it. Makes me look like a whiny snot. Obviously, I need to find a way to tread that thin line between "this explains what happened" and "I'm making excuses"
Help?
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Date: 2004-03-10 02:14 pm (UTC)