Hey You!

Dear Anonymous Defender of SqueakyChris,

As I said in an earlier posting, I am deleting your posting because you won't put a name to yourself. Naturally you're all offended because I was sarcastic to SqueakyChris. I was offended first, you stone-throwers. Pissed off, because you're ignoring what I actually said in my original post -- instead you come roaring in in high dudgeon weeks later, putting words into my mouth, making out I'm saying ridiculous things I never said. And now you dare to say that "I'm afraid of admitting I made a mistake." (narrows eyes in anger). No mistake was made. I stand by every single word I said in my original post. There were four points I made, and there is only one of them that any of you have come near to addressing, and that's number 3, and even that you didn't get right. You accuse me of ignoring what you say, when what you accuse me of saying: that " the creator dislikes all forms of fanfiction" was not what I said at all. What I said was that he thinks "That there are only a few fanfic writers who take fanfiction writing seriously." Similar, but not the damning intolerant thing you accuse me of.

This whole stupid argument has been about you folk picking a fight with me because of something I never said!

Hypothesis: someone brought up my post weeks later on your forum, summarizing it in a nastily slanted manner. You come along, skim the post, figure it's vaguely similar to the accusatory summary, and let go with both barrels, because you'd already been composing your angry reply in your head even before you looked at my post.

It's no surprise that you describe yourselves as friends of the original website owner. Friends are the most biased, and more likely to take offence, than anyone else, even the original person. Naturally you want to defend your friend from all harm, even when there isn't any.

Take a deep breath, and try not to be so trigger-happy. I doesn't do your friend's reputation any good.

Note About Anonymous Posting

This is my current policy -- it seems I have to spell it out.
Some LJ users allow only their friends to post comments. However, I don't want comments to be limited to just my circle of friends. Some LJ users only allow LJ users to post comments. However, I don't want to stop non-LJ folks from having a voice either, so I allow anonymous posting. However, as a precaution against abuse of this facility (such as by spammers), all anonymous posts are screened. Spam, naturally, gets deleted. That used to be the only thing that got deleted, but in the light of recent posts, I have changed that to include anyone who is so ashamed of their opinion that they won't put their name to it. I am assuming that someone is using the anonymous-posting facility because they cannot post as an LJ-user, so of course you aren't going to have an LJ username. That's perfectly okay, I want non-LJ people to be able to post, that's what "anonymous" posting is for. All I ask in return is that you say who you are, like, at the bottom of the post?

Sign
your
name.

Or use your handle, or whatever you usually go by on the net.

If you refuse to do so, then your post is like a note tied to a brick thrown through a window, and I will delete it. Or, to put it another way, if you are so ashamed of your opinions that you dare not put your name to them, then I shall do you a favour and prevent the world from seeing them.