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4:00am: HP wank from a tired bookseller
After watching people go into fits for the last few days, I've reached my tolerance limit of bitching about HP procedure within the bookstore.

Thus:

ZOMG I had to wait an extra minute for my book!

12:22pm: Tales of Symphonia Spam Wank
It's a small wank, but it's a break from Harry Potter.

Apparently, a member has taken to spamming a community devoted to slashing the characters of Tales of Symphonia. Another member took offence, and posted as much.

"If your post had been telling people to wear a crash helmet while engaging in mid-air sex with a gay angel, then it would have been on topic, and you would not currently be getting flamed for spamming. However, it wasn't about that, now was it? No.


There are cries that what was posted (a sad little anecdote about how a bike accident led to rollercoaster deprivation, and thus helmets are good, people!) is a Public Service Announcement, and "If you really had a problem with stuff clogging up your f-list, you would have ignored this post instead of coming here to offend people who aren't talking about gay sex. I guess the lesson to be learned here is that there is more to life than that, because there is."

(There is?)

This doesn't really garner a warm reception, either.

"Um, are you on crack? You don't come here to offend people not talking about gay sex. You come here to talk about gay sex, and you're offended when people aren't."

And so it goes on...

"I get that feeling that you are just a lurker who doesn't have the skills to write or draw anything at all, but still thinks that you are apart of the family this community has turned into. You truly digust me, I want you to leave this community and never post again, go find another community to flame in. We don't want your kind here."

And on.

"You can like the fact, lump it, or shove it up your ass- if your head isn't taking up all the available room."

I know I shouldn't still be amazed by people's ability to fight online about ANYTHING. But I so am.

1:13pm: Symbolic Flight: Part Two
A little late, but better late than never.

Like a bad horror film, ginny_weasley's Symbolic Flight essay spawns a crappy sequel.

It generates six pages of comments: 1 2 3 4 5 6

10:48pm: Even Wikipedia isn't spared HP wank.

[WARNING: The following contains spoilers rampant, including very detailed (possibly overly so) chapter-by-chapter summary of the book.]

In the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince article, a quiet battle is waged against trolls, as evidenced by the edit history, with troll edits ranging from ridiculously massive to minute and random.

Examples of troll-edits:
Is being excessive a key point of trollery, or something?
Simple and effective. ditto. Further ditto. Son of ditto. ...Really, there's a lot of this sort of thing.
Kind of like those "replace random noun in quote with 'underpants'" games, I guess.

Overall, most of the wankery occurs in some of the various edits, including ( this paragraph )

And ad infinitum.