Smallish wank mostly because I had to put some of this together from context without the benefit screencaps...

College Misery is a (largely) anonymous blog for college professors, university adjuncts, and graduate students to discuss their professional problems, complain about their administrators, colleagues, and most especially students. It is a successor blog to the recently closed blog Rate Your Students which was much more closely moderated and didn't allow comments.

As anyone who’s ever been stuck in a hotel with a couple hundred academics knows, it's the comments that are going to kill you.

( The Strange and Sordid Tale of a Women from Kalamazoo )

ETA: Fixed HTML

ETA the 2nd:

From the comments about the deleted kindle post...

Katie has written some mighty goofy shit in RYS and CM, but her post started out with, "I'm not ready to marry my Kindle, but I let it go to second base." And she expects to be taken seriously, for her mind? I glanced at her post this morning, but didn't have time to add a comment that made much sense, that being a challenge with a post like hers: I was thinking along the lines of, "Between the cats and the Kindle, Katie really ought to get out more," or maybe just echo Beaker Ben, "There is no need for us to be this intimately acquainted."

Seattleite killthief is disappointed in Seattle's lack of chain restaurants.

seattle is disappointed in her lack of taste; her appalling lack of taste.

Oh, ponies. Like so many girls who grew up in the city, I think ponies are ace. They can do anything and are awesome and some of them even talk in your head and make you all emo & special. I <3 (imaginary) ponies, for they are perfect.

As with all things awesome and squee worthy, there is a Live Journal community for squeeing! Over ponies! (But not imaginary ponies, real ponies, so these ponies do not give you magical Mary Sue powers, woe, so the community is actually more like "Let's talk about our horses and discuss things about horsemanship." I am very disappointed at the lack of "how to have sex on my emo magical pony" posts.) It's pretty-heavily female, as one would imagine, so when a Boy Pony Owner shows up, there's a bit of !!! Boy! going on.

Boy Pony Owner is Chuck McDonald, aka wildhorseblog, aka "I know everything because I am a boy, don't you know?" He first introduces himself to the comm in a wank-free post on March 18, which I am only mentioning because his inevitable [SPOILER!] FLOUNCE! occurs on March 21.[/SPOILER!]

( cut because you already know this story, honestly )

I think Boy Pony Owner could have done better on the dismount, myself, but then, I think ponies should be silver with blue eyes and special angst-adding abilities.

The members of trashy_eats have had it with these motherfucking bacon rolls on their motherfucking LJ community.

One of those things where it's really just one person (er, possibly two?) being wanky, but if you love a good plagiarism scandal as much as I do -- most particularly when the accused follows the script so familiar from fandom to the letter -- it's pretty entertaining.

So, Slate writer Jody Rosen is made aware that one of his articles has been plagiarized in a small Texas weekly called the Montgomery County Bulletin, under the byline of one "Mark Williams." Further digging (detailed in that link) turns up many, many Bulletin articles plagiarized from sources ranging from USA Today and The Guardian to (*snerk*) customer reviews on Amazon.

After this draws some attention from Gawker and the Houston Press, plus some sniffing the air catching the scent of a story by NPR and the New York Observer, Bulletin publisher Mike Ladyman is shutting down the paper, taking his toys and going home! That meanie Rosen "truly acts like the rock-and-roll or the music critic" and is guilty of "an attack, an attention-grabbing hatchet job." Even though Ladyman doesn't really deny the plagiarism. It was just inadvertent. Mark Williams meant to be copying press releases, or something.

He does, however, deny the Houston Press's insinuations of sockpuppetry shenanigans. Ladyman insists that Williams is a real person.

Indeed, Williams is real enough to have his feelings hurt, and this is where the plagiarist's script so familiar from fandom gets whipped out:

( Some highlights )

So, this Jody Rosen -- a mean girl (despite being male) in the world of journalism, Y/Y?

Poor cf_ioan is having a bad day. Over at the Childfreez, she posts about how an "idiot moo cunt" she is acquainted with "fortunately...miscarried". She does not receive acclaim for this viewpoint.

( Plenty of stereotypes and hate for everyone )

Not those boobies: the blue-footed variety. wtf_nature is at it again after someone posts a picture of a blue-footed booby along with this:

First Post!
Look! It gots blue feet!
And then I ask myself what if any is the need for blue feets?

The general sentiment is that blue-footed boobies were only wtf back in third grade, and members start claiming spotlight killed the community, calling for mod intervention, and pointing out that the post breaks the rules by not including info. (This isn't everything. Look for bursts all over the comments.)

There is some dissent, but it's not until gravitys_enemy chimes in with this that it gets truly wanky:

Ok look, I realize this person posted what has been called a repeat. I think we've all established that. Also the person should have said more about the picture than they did.... that all being said, no need to be quite so rude. Some of us are new. I didn't see the picture before, and I didn't mind seeing it, so thank you poster for posting it. I understand if we want to make a think over the fact it's a repost... but one, two, even ten comments get the job done.

Disgruntled wtf-ers take that about as well as you'd expect. Don't miss the bonus flounce and respost wank.

ETA: the comm is exploding all over the place today. (Failure to get sarcasm in that last link is pretty spectacular.)

ETA2: Boobies = deleted. ETA1 links still work, though.

ETA3: It continues.

Being sarcastic to the newbies and dropping the f-bomb all over the place sure looks like trolling to me. (Emphasis on "to me.") No, I'm not a mod, but I've got children, and I don't tolerate potty mouth or disrespect from them or from strangers like you.

Boring Background Stuff:

( blah blah, a postcard exchange group )
The latest bunch of trolling has come, deleting tons of addresses and people are once again getting all worked up. Cries for the owner of the site to change it (he won't), for dealing with the trolls by proudly declaring how many times YOUR profile has been deleted, and calls for people to just post their addresses on the list so that we can all still exchange postcards are all happening, clogging up various in boxes with ... I dunno, lots of email over the past few days from a list that usually gets me about three emails a month.

Which means, of course, people freak out even more.

Whisper Wind Girl sez:

okay, so I am taking it upon myself to delete all of the garbage spam
from pcx. the idiot who came up with this "brilliant" plan and the
subsequent idiots who followed suit don't seem to realize that
spamming random messages and their own information 500 times is JUST
AS BAD AS THE MASS ALTERINGS/DELETIONS. what is wrong with you? do you
not use your brain? ( Flounce! )
Which leads to people telling her to calm down, to which her response is:

who's yelling? i'm using curse words. mind your own business if you
have nothing productive to say other than "shh... it's okay."

Some funny responses in there, a bit of trying to come up with a more clever plan, then Whisper Wind Girl rolls her eyes at all of us to say:
( Super Hackers from Pakistan to the RESCUE! )
It goes on for a bit, people posting back and forth, Whisper Wind Girl attempting to throw fits like a two year old, and various attempts by other people to calm her down, when finally, She's banned.

I was kinda disappointed. It was the most entertaining thing this week.

All this screaming, shouting, and random references to The Matrix over postcards.

I love my not-a-fandom!