Mini R. A. Salvatore Wank?
Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Please be gentle. < /clicheintroduction >

It's amazing what you can find when you aren't looking for it. I had just joined the forgotten_realms community over on LJ, and the very first post I see is someone bragging about being a troll. This instantly sends up my possible wank flags, so I toddle over to the message board they linked to and investigate. What I found was small, but amusing. Well... it made me giggle and roll my eyes, at any rate.

Vestele posts a thread essentially complaining about Salvatore's tendency to repeat certain phrases (which is a valid complaint, if you ask me >.<). Silvae replies with what amounts to an agreement and "you ain't seen nothin' yet".

This prompts efmd, a self-proclaimed friend of Salvatore, to post and whine at Silvae because apparently "everything you post in here is an attack on R.A. Salvatore." He then pulls the old "internet psychologist trick" -- "Does is make you feel better about your OWN writing?" -- and proceeds to shoot himself in the foot -- "Does it make you feel superior to the people here who are actually stupid enough to enjoy his books?"

Silvae comes back with a dissection of efmd's post and pokes fun at his typos. The two go back and forth at each other for a few posts, interspersed with some people actually responding to the original thread and even a plea from the OP to take the mini-squabble elsewhere. It seems to get cut off when the board's admin, Laethyn, pops up and essentially tells everybody to STFU.

I dunno... This might even be too small to qualify as real wank, but I was just impressed at how much of the characteristics of wank (internet psychologists, trolling, subtle and not-so-subtle "OMG dun critsize teh masta!" posts) they managed to pack into just a few posts.