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A Confession | 51 comments (51 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: A Confession (none / 0)

sorry, Manny.

I have a memory.

And when my memory fails me, I have google.

Scribe is one of the last people that I would look to to find genuine remorse. She was one of the people most taken in by spiderleaf and catnip, to the point she actually joined their efforts at meta destruction as an unwitting buffoon.

And I would forgive it if I saw any recognition that she was used and played for a fool.

And before I get angry at this line of argument, I will just say that I did not ban ANYONE during the battle over the military. NO ONE WAS BANNED. Tracy was suspended and that was it.

People thought I should have banned Tracy faster than I did and that I shouldn't have banned spiderleaf. They were wrong then and they are still wrong now if they can't see that I had trolls on my hands that were feeding the Tracy thing as hard as the could.

by BooMan on Thu Jun 28th, 2007 at 10:13:20 AM EST
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Re: A Confession (4.00 / 3)

OK, so now I begin to see what happened. I don't like what I see, but at least its a bit clearer.

While Tracy was in the midst of having a breakdown here and doing her best to take anyone she could down with her (after endless attempts by almost all concerned to try to reach out and help her, only to feel her backhand across the face), you are convinced that it was spider who was out to wreck your blog.

I don't see it that way at all!! But your drawing of some kind of line in the sand of those who don't see it that way, and therefore continued to maintain an online relationship with spider as somehow being unwitting buffons or being played the fool is where the real grade-school attitude comes in to play.

I am really incensed about how you just spoke about Scribe. I'll let it sit for a while and see where I go with it because, you see, people are multi-dimensional. They are NOT good/bad, we all make mistakes and, at the same time commit acts of brilliance. That is true of you - just as it is of the rest of us.

Doesn't information itself have a liberal bias? Steven Colbert

by NLinStPaul on Thu Jun 28th, 2007 at 10:49:59 AM EST
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Re: A Confession (none / 0)

NL-

Scribe has been a major contributor, for a year, to a site that routinely lampoons, ridicules, and smears me.

by BooMan on Thu Jun 28th, 2007 at 11:05:57 AM EST
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Re: A Confession (4.00 / 2)

Yeah, there's alot of people there that are mad at you. In case you missed it, many of us went there (including me) during all this mess as a way to take some of our anger someplace besides here - where things were reeling out of control as it was. I found it a useful place for awhile. And if you hadn't continued to link what was going on there, most here probably never would have seen it. I think its this "conspiracy" thing that is getting in your way now. I'm going to be real blunt here and tell you how I see it:

Tracy was having a breakdown and needed to get offline.
Spider is hot-headed and goes over the line at times. Interestingly enough, she usually gets it eventually and fesses up - the very thing that led to this diary in the first place.
Catnip - now there's a peice of work for you. The relationship between you and her is way to complicated for me to understand. I know a lot of it has gone on offline so I'm not even going to try to go there. Except to say that I have a hunch you're being played like a violin by her.

Doesn't information itself have a liberal bias? Steven Colbert

by NLinStPaul on Thu Jun 28th, 2007 at 11:26:59 AM EST
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Re: A Confession (none / 1)

You are not listening. We will just have to agree to disagree. Once upon a time, that was how we handled things around here.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Thu Jun 28th, 2007 at 12:09:02 PM EST
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