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moriath ([info]moriath) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-12-19 00:50:00


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From our very own fandom_lounge
It all starts when [info]kittenmommy posts in [info]fandom_lounge about a truly horrific case of animal cruelty down in Georgia (warning: the link takes you directly to the full post, which contains graphic descriptions of animal torture. Scroll down to the comments or follow the following links to specific instances of wank if you want to avoid such things. I certainly wouldn't blame you).

The request was first posted without a cut for the disturbing bits, so right away, people are twitchy.



But the wank really starts when [info]ldymusyc accuses [info]kittenmommy of desiring mob justice

Animal cruelty laws are toted out and comparisons are made between cute puppies and ugly lobsters.

Many people seem to think that [info]kittenmommy wants people to write in to force a guilty verdict. More legalese is brought out.

The general consensus does indeed seem to be "poor puppy!!!!11!" but that at best the original post was unclear and at worst was rather wanky.

Throughout, [info]kittenmommy can't understand why this is so controversial.

Edit: Now reported on [info]wankitywank here. We've hit three comms so far; anyone have a way to get us on another?
Edit II: Yep! We've now made stupid_free.


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[info]grrliz
2006-12-19 06:12 am UTC (link)
I hate it when people sign their comments with their username. What, pray tell, is the point?

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[info]grrliz
2006-12-19 06:13 am UTC (link)
Ooh, bad form on me for using an icon about clubbing baby seals in an animal cruelty post. :/

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[info]napalmnacey
2006-12-19 11:46 pm UTC (link)
How else are we supposed to get the damned fur off them?

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[info]moriath
2006-12-19 06:16 am UTC (link)
I kind of want to know what exactly it is about it that irks us. When someone commented about back in the good ol' days of the F_W anon hate meme, I totally agreed that it was irritating, and still feel that way. But why do we care? AShouldn't we be worrying about how to scam lipstick/iPods/trendy-accessory-of-the-moment out of our minions friends?

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[info]esorlehcar
2006-12-19 06:21 am UTC (link)
It doesn't really irritate me. I just assume anyone who thinks they need to sign comments is either a total internet novice or a complete idiot (and frequently both), which more often than not turns out to be right on the money.

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(no subject) - [info]serai, 2006-12-19 06:28 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sunhawk, 2006-12-19 06:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]polygamouse, 2006-12-19 12:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]semirecluse, 2006-12-19 03:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]polygamouse, 2006-12-19 04:13 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]esorlehcar, 2006-12-19 02:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-12-19 05:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]esorlehcar, 2006-12-19 06:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-12-19 06:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]esorlehcar, 2006-12-19 06:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-12-19 07:17 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]esorlehcar, 2006-12-19 07:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]esorlehcar, 2006-12-19 09:01 pm UTC

[info]grrliz
2006-12-19 06:28 am UTC (link)
I figure it has to do with the fact that your username is so clearly displayed preceding each and every comment you make that it's redudant to add it at the end.

It makes me feel like the person doing it is trying to be my penpal or something, like they're writing a charming little letter on scented stationary every time they respond to a comment. The constant repetition of their name over and over just drives me nuts; it reminds me of how trauma psychologists on TV always tell the parents of kidnapped children to repeat their child's name over and over when they plea for their child's life on the 6 o'clock news because (so the psychologist says) it makes the kidnapper think of the child as a real person and reduces the chance that he or she will be hurt.

Evidently I've seen Silence of the Lambs one too many times.

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(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-12-19 06:36 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]grrliz, 2006-12-19 06:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-12-19 06:49 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]grrliz, 2006-12-19 06:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2006-12-19 11:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]scarah2, 2006-12-19 07:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]grrliz, 2006-12-19 07:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]scarah2, 2006-12-19 07:46 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]b_jellybean, 2006-12-19 01:29 pm UTC

[info]m_butterfly
2006-12-19 06:29 am UTC (link)
I think it's because, within fannish interaction, the point of a signature is to provide you with the information of who is commenting in case the initial note of that was missed or inconclusive. In mailing lists, it's very handy because of how often email addresses aren't informative. On forums, it's a way of providing additional information. On LJ/JF, it's kind of implying you're enough of a moron to have missed the bolded username that is right there above the comment in a prominent, highlighted box.

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[info]dustmotes
2006-12-19 11:04 pm UTC (link)
I personally *love* signed posts. After reading a particularly stupid comment, I'm usually struck with amnesia, not knowing where or who I am. The signature at the end just reminds me who I'm going to say when I go to heaven and get my 'one kill' reward. Either them or Amanda Bynes. *shrug*

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[info]sunhawk
2006-12-19 06:44 am UTC (link)
Well I don't sign every comment I make but I do have the habit of signing entries to either my journal or to communities. It's just a leftover habit from my days of actual physical letter-writing and journaling, maybe people who do it all the time have the same mentality, just a guess. Perhaps also some people treat any online communications as a more formal affair, which would make signing each message make sense in that context as well... at least to me, anyway!

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[info]grrliz
2006-12-19 06:46 am UTC (link)
Heh, yeah, the signing of actual posts drives me just as nuts. Or maybe just slightly less nuts, since I see it less often than the signing of comments.

I was never one to sign a journal even when I was writing it in an actual notebook. Then again, I also never did the "Dear Diary" thing to start an entry, it was often "Fucking hell, this all happened today."

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(no subject) - [info]sunhawk, 2006-12-19 06:49 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-12-19 05:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]grrliz, 2006-12-19 06:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-12-19 07:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]esorlehcar, 2006-12-20 03:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-12-20 04:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]snacky, 2006-12-20 04:06 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-12-20 04:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]snacky, 2006-12-20 04:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-12-20 04:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]esorlehcar, 2006-12-20 04:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ereshkigal, 2006-12-20 10:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tiki, 2006-12-20 09:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cidercupcakes, 2006-12-19 09:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2006-12-19 11:52 pm UTC

[info]wrongly_amused
2006-12-19 09:01 am UTC (link)
There isn't one that I can see, but I'm not majorly irked by it. 90% of the time my eyes just skim over it, anyway. *shrugs*

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Joins in the *shrugging*
[info]reeve
2006-12-19 03:58 pm UTC (link)
In much the same boat. I don't get why people wring their hands over it.

I mean, hardly anyone ever gives [info]mister_terrific a hard time about his sig(s)...

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Re: Joins in the *shrugging* - [info]puipui, 2006-12-19 08:34 pm UTC
Re: Joins in the *shrugging* - [info]pet, 2006-12-20 02:34 am UTC
Re: Joins in the *shrugging* - sockpuppet_rat, 2006-12-20 03:10 am UTC
Re: Joins in the *shrugging* - [info]puipui, 2006-12-20 06:05 am UTC

[info]deoridhe
2006-12-19 01:55 pm UTC (link)
I find it funny.

I mean, can you imagine a conversation where everyone says, "Tilde Deoridhe" and "Dash Snacky" after every comment?

Plus it reminds me of when we started signing each other's names. I am OBVIOUSLY Hinky.

~Snacky.

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[info]cimorene111
2006-12-19 05:06 pm UTC (link)
ohhhhh, i'd forgotten about that. good times, man, good times.

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[info]snacky
2006-12-20 04:07 am UTC (link)
HEY!

~anatsuno

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(no subject) - [info]deoridhe, 2006-12-20 04:44 am UTC

[info]panthea
2006-12-19 04:51 pm UTC (link)
That doesn't bother me so much as when people quote the entire text of the comment they're replying to. BECAUSE HELLO. WE CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE REPLYING TO. THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF THREADED COMMENTS.

Just saying. (Um. Apparently this really bugs me.)

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[info]mindset
2006-12-19 05:20 pm UTC (link)
It's a very very very forum-specific style (mailing lists, Usenet, phpBB, vBulletin) - quoting of every post, signatures, etc. But LJ-based comment pages aren't *like* that. This lack of flexibility may explain a lot of the frustration, maybe.

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[info]thesilentsenshi
2006-12-19 10:18 pm UTC (link)
I've begun to sometimes quote a small portion if my reply is specific to that and not the whole comment. Because sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what I'm refering to. But to small comments like that, yeah, that would get annoying.

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(no subject) - [info]panthea, 2006-12-19 10:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]thesilentsenshi, 2006-12-19 10:59 pm UTC

[info]ladyvoldything
2006-12-21 01:11 am UTC (link)
That doesn't bother me so much as when people quote the entire text of the comment they're replying to. BECAUSE HELLO. WE CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE REPLYING TO. THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF THREADED COMMENTS.

Just saying. (Um. Apparently this really bugs me.)


IAWTC.

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[info]frequentmouse
2006-12-19 05:56 pm UTC (link)
Well, in my case, everywhere but here, it's a matter of personal style, a possibility to make sardonic comment on what I've just said, and a more flexible and personalized replacement for the "mood" item, which I find hopelessly jejune and cliched.

I don't do it on Jounalfen because people are such unspeakable snots over it.

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[info]grrliz
2006-12-19 06:40 pm UTC (link)
a more flexible and personalized replacement for the "mood" item

How does that work, exactly?

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(no subject) - [info]frequentmouse, 2006-12-19 07:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ryuutchi, 2006-12-19 07:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]grrliz, 2006-12-19 08:32 pm UTC

[info]puipui
2006-12-19 08:35 pm UTC (link)
I don't do it on Jounalfen because people are such unspeakable snots over it.

Well, at least you should feel right at home, then.

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good god, yes. MAKE IT STOP.
[info]pet
2006-12-20 02:39 am UTC (link)
I literally can't read the threads where she's commenting all over the place, because the insane, constant repetition of KITTENMOMMY KITTENMOMMY KITTENMOMMY at the end of every damn comment is going to drive me up a tree.

Shame, too. This is an interesting one.

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Re: good god, yes. MAKE IT STOP.
[info]doc_lydgate
2006-12-21 07:25 pm UTC (link)
Reminds me a bit of Bob the Normal.

Later.

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[info]greenling
2006-12-20 04:30 am UTC (link)
Sometimes, because it's fun to annoy the everloving piss out of so many people with such a tiny little inoffensive thing. It's like the people who lose their shit because "blessed be" has spread past the five people they personally know.

Hell, if I was less lazy I'd start doing it.

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