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When book lovers go bad
Booktards is a mostly rational community about the discussion of, what else, books. The most heated I've been things get has been the endless "Dan Brown: pretentious, false tripe or just plain ol' literary fun" debate. Until today.

Mabiebabie violates the first rule of Livejournal by posting a picture without a cut - a scan of a page from Ayn Rand's "Fountainhead". The usual cries of "alas, alack, my layout!" and "fucking cut this, where is the mod???" abound, and the entry has since been deleted.

A little while later, an apparent moderater steps in, making a heinous-on-the-eyes, all caps post saying the spam has been deleted, please continue with our bookloving discussion. Troll accusations rightfully fly! Again, this post has since been edited, now reading Sorry you had to deal with those awful trolls earlier. I've deleted all their posts and banned them. We can now get back to our normally scheduled literary program. :) The actual community maintainer arrives, thanking the poster for deleting the mess. Hoping4serenity takes this as the mod vindicating the trolls behaviour.

Hoping4serenity dons her drama pajamas, and rages against the machine by withdrawing her membership, but not before and apparent banning takes place. Luckily, h4s has plenty of time to complain about comments spamming her inbox and extend her angry diatribe against the mods. Does anyone have an accurate count of how many times she reiterates that she is leaving/has left the community? I ran out of fingers and toes.

The original poster starts yet another thread, this time explaining their "reasons" for trolling, claiming it was all in the name of driving home a DON'T FEED THE TROLLS lesson.

Well there we go. My first wank report, and it probably doesn't have much distance left in it, save possibly a final word from the actual community mods, but I got a laugh out of it. Oh livejournal intelligensia, what would we do without you?

ETA: Sadly the mods have deleted all the delicious wankage, but thanks to Monkeywrench who saved this page, Hoping4serenity's first of many long goodbyes.

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	splorch 2005-09-13 01:24 am UTC (link)
	Bahleeted! I am trying to screencap the hoping4serenity post, because it was deleted while I was reading it, but I am doing something wrong. I'll keep trying if anyone is really itching to see it. Also, talk about your drama llamas. Damn mods, spending time offline and shit. Stomping away in a huff will sure show them. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hysteria 2005-09-13 01:31 am UTC (link)
	Aw man, deleted so soon! I should have archived (but in all honesty have no clue how to do so XD). Admittedly, it did take me about 30 minutes to actually type the post and fix html, gotta be quicker on the draw I guess. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	monkeywrench 2005-09-13 08:01 am UTC (link)
	God bless IE's Working Offline-mode. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kadath 2005-09-13 01:36 am UTC (link)
	Alt+Prnt Scrn not working? You could just save the source. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2005-09-13 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	i remember hoping4serenity. she did same stuff about six months ago promising booktards NEVER EVER to return in a long, long drama queen wank. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2005-09-13 01:31 am UTC (link)
	The fact that all this rage and self-righteousness came from an Ayn Rand scan makes it almost too good to be true. (Reply to this)

	expeliarbum 2005-09-13 02:40 am UTC (link)
	Gone, gone, gone :( (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2005-09-13 09:56 am UTC (link)
	Hey, do you possibly remember when the Dan Brown discussion went on? Just, uh, curious. (Actually, it's because I hate Dan Brown so I welcome any opportunity to "hear" people calling him a hack.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kadath 2005-09-13 01:13 pm UTC (link)
	Such a hack he should have a meter and a checkered side panel. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	maev_connacht 2005-09-13 01:49 pm UTC (link)
	Being also of the Brown-mocking persuasion, I tried searching for it and came up with nothing. Hopefully someone has a link? Someone? Please? (Reply to this)(Parent)

kookaburra
2005-09-13 02:20 pm UTC (link)

Heh heh heh-
That reminds me of something that happened on a friend's LJ once. Apparently she had read "DaVinci Code" and loved it, and when she took an Art History course, the Professor started out with a diatribe about how much of a hack and a liar Dan Brown was, and to forget anything about Art History any of them had "learned" from his book. So she posted about how she "Thought a university would know better than to hire crazy Christians".

So those of us on her friendslist (including a professor of Medieval and Renaissance studies) had to set her straight. She was SHOCKED and APPALLED that the man might have MADE THINGS UP!

I was more concerned that she would let a bunch of relative strangers on the net (including me) educate her, but not a qualified professor who was actually teaching her art history.

And that's my Dan Brown story.

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	kadath 2005-09-13 02:30 pm UTC (link)
	I'm a bit concerned that she made it into college, yet was willing to trust a book with no References section. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2005-09-14 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Sadly, so many people at my college seem to, and in my RS courses sometimes Freshmen try to whip stuff out from the DaVinci Code, thinking that they know something TOTALLY NEW and AWESOME that nobody has ever THOUGHT of before! ...only to get the smackdown by professors who have been studying this stuff longer than they have been alive. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	phosfate 2005-09-13 03:17 pm UTC (link)
	Good golly. You do not have to be a 'crazy Christian,' or any sort of Christian, to laugh at Dan Brown. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2005-09-14 12:25 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, and she couldn't see how her phrasing might possibly be somewhat hurtful to the Christians on her flist. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2005-09-15 01:27 pm UTC (link)
	Goodness. It shouldn't hurt Christians who aren't crazy at all! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2005-09-15 02:00 pm UTC (link)
	In replying to the comments (and in previous posts) she made it pretty clear that she thought the adjective was appropriate to all Christians. No idea what she's doing now, since I've filtered her journal, and never have time to check up. That post was really the straw that broke the camel's back. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2005-09-15 02:23 pm UTC (link)
	Nono, that was sarcasm. I was implying that she was, y'know, kinda dopey. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2005-09-15 07:06 pm UTC (link)
	Ah! Got it. Hopeless internet addict that I am, I checked my email right after rolling out of bed this morning, and thus was a bit slow on the uptake. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2005-09-15 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	I understand. Sometimes the coffee just! won't! work! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2005-09-13 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	cough Okay, um...do you happen to have a link to that friend's entry? I know, I'm pathetic. /same mousie as before (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2005-09-14 12:26 am UTC (link)
	No, sorry- it was like a year and a half ago, and I don't really read her journal anymore. But I'm going to go to the community and look for the Dan Brown threads. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kookaburra 2005-09-14 02:11 am UTC (link)
	There's a bit here, but they all seem to be shying away from direct criticism: http://www.livejournal.com/community/booktards/1875574.html (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2005-09-13 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	More Booktards trolling! http://www.livejournal.com/community/booktards/1918824.html http://www.livejournal.com/community/booktards/1919330.html (Reply to this)