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.