The Return of the Knitting Wank
What is it about the knitting community on LJ that attracts so much wank?! I never thought I'd be bringing a third wankfest over here, and yet, here I am.

It starts off when neau posts to the knitting community, asking how she can graph a picture onto a pattern for a sweater for her mother. The picture in question is the W stands for Women ad from the George Bush campaign. Minor wank ensues in the comments as valid questions about making the sweater (such as, what if Dubya loses in November?) are met with snarky replies from the OP, and her friend everybabyweeps. The first sign of trolling? A comment about knitting pom-poms for the mother is met with the reply, "LOL, knit pompoms would rock. She could use them when she rallies against homosexual marriages. !".

At this point, it becomes blatantly obvious to the moderators that neau and everybabyweeps are simply trying to stir up trouble in the community. ew_yer_creepy proceeds to ban both of them from the community, not just because they were stirring up trouble, but because upon further investigation into neau's journal, the mods found out that neau and everybabyweeps had actually plotted their post to knitting beforehand. The mod took two screencaps of the two of them plotting - apparently someone from the knitting community insulted neau's cat, so she decided to troll. (I'm not kidding people, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.)

But wait! The wank doesn't end there! sorrows_crow, who is a friend of neau, refuses to believe that neau would do such a thing, and accuses the mod of photoshopping the LJ comment images. The entry from which the comments were taken has since been friends-locked, leaving the mod with no physical proof that the comments are real, except, of course, for the screenshots, and the fact that neau did exactly what the comments said she would, and trolled the community. But that's not good enough for sorrows_crow, who basically says that the whole thing is a conspiracy against neau, and that she won't believe anything without actual proof.

I'd like to remind you all that these people participate in a hobby that involves long, sharp, pointy objects. Be afraid folks, be very afraid.