Tuesday, September 16, 2008

When cowards comment

It is a beautiful thing to be able to disagree with others. It is very respectful when those who disagree will also share their identify just as openly as they do their arguments. But that is not always the case.

To the anonymous cowards that hide behind their computers, without a photo, or a means to receive replies, it is those of your ilk that I dispise.

Sending a rebuttal to a blog/comment without allowing the well identified author to rebut your butt is about as honorable as waving an American flag while wearing a white sheet over your head.

The internet already provides a certain degree of anonymity. Be it right, wrong, controversial, factual, or mere opinion, high praise for the individuals who stand by their correspondence and is not afraid of feedback.

Blogging is not a source to solicit blind faith followers. It is a means to share thoughts with the masses and to receive an array of critique. You are not expected to agree with or enjoy everything you read. Like that perfect book, that blog hasn't been written.

Disagree and respond respectfully. That is the rule of common decency.

The childhood playground rule also applies: Be a man or woman-always. Don't dish it if you can't take.

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3 Comments:

At September 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM , Blogger Unknown said...

You just knocked me off my soap box. I don't moderate my blog comments but I've removed the option for anonymous entries simply because of one butt-hole who decided to leave a very nasty comment. I was so pissed. Thanks for putting this out there. Maybe the cowards will take heed.

 
At September 16, 2008 at 11:36 PM , Blogger Create said...

What a wonderful way of
dictating caliber...we as
the writers..must be the approval...therefore by inlisting ourward speech..releases a concept in blogging that reaches viewers diplomacy..never believes their wrong..what is..so self-explanatary..wears vision...
takes itself where u can be accompanied verbally a success..but embarks...tampering on blatant speech.. limits..one..self invisible..becomes silent critics..scrutinize..with no ambition..a force 2 b dealt with..hiding behind sheets of fear..where the writer believes..
just displays stupidity..with no indentity..defies a coward....peace..CREATE

 
At September 22, 2008 at 8:01 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

or it could be the case that annonymous comments give meaning to the message not the person behind them. either your words/ideas have merit or they do not.

posting your name (or your super cool made up name 'create' 'blog queen') is an attempt to give your comments intellectual weight that they do not deserve.

your blog is petty, inane and worthless. this is why you write a blog rather than articles. you write your opinion without critical thought, research, fact checking or editing and dump it on the interwebs for people to read. and the only people who do read it are other blogers who don't care about your opinions but pretend to do so in the hope that you will read their blog and give them the validation they so sadly lack in other aspects of their life.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect us.

 

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