Want a little creator-wank today?
What do you do when you are a famous cartoonist and people post threads about you on the internet?

Sockpuppet, of course

Oh yes.

So, over on Metafilter a thread is started about an article by Scott Adams. Plannedchaos shows up to white knight for Scott. This is easy for him to do, because he is Scott.

Some choice quotes:

Plannedchaos: When did self-promotion become a bad thing? It made Adams a multi-millionaire, enriched hundreds of people indirectly through his varous enterprises, fed his family, and generated lots of tax revenue.

I don't think self-promotion breaks any laws of man or nature. It's not forbidden in the Ten Commandments unless he becomes a religious idol. I think he stopped short of that.

Some authors need no promotion to sell their work. For others, self-promotion is an integral part of the product. It's called marketing.

Remember that Adams calls himself an entrepreneur, not an artist. So your point is that he's not dong a good job at the thing he's not trying to do?

Plannedchaos: Hey, man, I'm right behind you on this, don't apologize. If the Scott Adams brand is all about self-promotion, then I'm all about promoting the Scott Adams brand! I want to see Mr. Adams blow up big Big BIG! We're in this together, man!
posted by octobersurprise at 8:00 AM on April 15 [+] [!]

I assume you don't hate all self-promoters, such as homeless people applying for jobs. Is it Adams' enormous success at self-promotion that makes you jealous and angry?

How many people think I'm actually Scott Adams writing about myself in third person?

posted to MetaFilter by plannedchaos at 9:21 AM on April 15, 2011

I am Scott Adams.

posted to MetaFilter by plannedchaos at 11:09 AM on April 15, 2011

I'm sorry I peed in your cesspool.

For what it's worth, the smart people were on to me after the first post. That made it funnier.

posted to MetaFilter by plannedchaos at 11:49 AM on April 15, 2011

Classy guy.

Posted to unfunny_fandom because the last wank Scott was in is mentioned allllll over the place.

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Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button.

dottiness
2011-04-17 01:23 am UTC (link)

You know, it makes me even angrier for another reason: I don't see it as "A" and "B" students in terms of grades so much as in terms of groups, and the quote seems to be implying that B students are the kids who study lit, or art, or language, or, you know, anything that isn't a nailed-down science or math issue. And thereby, whatever the "B students" do is inherently less important than the kids that are going to become engineers or doctors or scientists.

This is why I stopped reading XKCD and it's certainly another reason on the pile to quit reading Dilbert. I hate it (haaaaaaaaate it) when some science people get all high and mighty about their professions being better than anything else.

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	Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button. sandglass 2011-04-17 01:27 am UTC (link)
	Well, he does include literature in his list of things that smart people study? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button. dottiness 2011-04-17 01:29 am UTC (link)
	This is what I get for skimming! I noticed that two seconds after finishing my comment. Aren't my cheeks red! (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button.

evilsqueakers
2011-04-17 03:17 am UTC (link)

I hate it (haaaaaaaaate it) when some science people get all high and mighty about their professions being better than anything else.

Sounds the Dean of Academic Affairs at my last school. I bitched like a mofo because they thought putting a semester's worth of Chemistry in a quarter time frame was normal. It's really, really not. Doing a chapter a day (or more) is nowhere near normal. And I brought it up, that I'd been at the school previously. I said I had my AS in Psych. She literally sneered at that with her whipping out her math cred. She then asked why I wanted to be a vet tech. I told her that I liked helping animals, which was another near sneer.

This, for the record, was at a tech college.

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Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button.

pfeffermuse
2011-04-18 04:29 am UTC (link)

Most important thing I ever learned in college, and something that I've lectured elementary and high school students on whenever I've done a career-day speech: the moment you enter college/uni, the most important person you should make friends with is your dean's secretary.

They're the person who actually knows what's going on, and will give you correct and concise answers to the misinformation you'll get from your advisor and the disinterested run-around you'll get from your dean.

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	Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button. evilsqueakers 2011-04-18 04:37 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I completely knew the secretary, but it didn't help alas. It was the prejudice against the softer sciences and ability to speak out. I had some temerity to speak up. (How dare I??) (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button.

white_tean
2011-04-18 11:33 am UTC (link)

I hate it (haaaaaaaaate it) when some science people get all high and mighty about their professions being better than anything else.
Ugh, Arts people do it too. Have heard way too many professors of Art/Design getting totally defensive about sciences and trying to claim that creativity is the sole property of the arts and anyone can be a (medical) doctor. Pisses me off. Any career field is served by creativity.

The whole Arts/Sciences argument is just so infantile.

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	Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button. dottiness 2011-04-18 11:47 am UTC (link)
	It's probably my least favorite academic argument! I admit I've mostly gotten the science -> arts side since communications isn't a science, but damn, I totally believe it goes both ways. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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