A brief note on the latest and greatest LJ drama...

[missroserose]

Note: This post was originally going to be much longer and contain an explanation of what was going on, but anyone who's really curious can go here and read for themselves. So in the spirit of brevity being the soul of wit and all, here's what I have to say:

To all you folks with the "5/29/07 NEVER FORGET" icons and the hand-stapled-to-forehead "trust is gone!" attitude and the jingoistic "You'll pry my fandom pr0n from my cold, dead hands!" mantras?

Get a life.

Seriously.

Also? "Jingoistic" is an awesome word. I need to use it more.

Comments

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I originally read that as "random pr0n," which I think is much more intriguing.

Also, "Jingoistic" is so Boba Fett's grandfather's name.

[dngrsone.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear!

Seriously, these people need lives outside the computer something fierce.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Agreed. But nothing makes groups of people band together like feeling persecuted. And when it's just a dumb mistake (or a series of dumb mistakes) that is mistaken for persecution, you can apologize for/fix the mistake all you want and you'll still have people who've worked themselves into a frenzy over it.

I just keep thinking to myself that it'll all blow over soon enough...groupthink can be scary, but the mob is nothing if not fickle. =)

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Never again the strikethrough times!

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

A few days late, but help we're being repressed?

I really hope someone posted that somewhere in the discussion.