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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	silrana 2011-04-17 02:36 am UTC (link)
	Eh. I figured out a long time ago that if I only paid attention to people I thoroughly approved of, I'd never read, watch or listen to anything ever again. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	janegray 2011-04-17 12:01 pm UTC (link)
	There is a huge difference between "person I don't thoroughly approve of" and "loathsome person I utterly and completely despise", though. There is no way I could possibly enjoy Dilbert after he published this article. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

silrana
2011-04-17 03:11 pm UTC (link)

Everyone sets their bar at a different level, and I can't say nobody has ever crossed mine. Forex, I'll never see a George Clooney movie ever again. But I just have the philosophy that everyone is a douche about something.

As an aside, I want to be published someday. And when that day comes, if my agent follows the traditional line of "you need to blog, you need to have an internet presence" I'm going to flat out refuse. Because eventually you are going to piss people off, so why invite trouble?

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	cassildra 2011-04-17 03:15 pm UTC (link)
	What did George Clooney do, if I may? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	silrana 2011-04-17 04:18 pm UTC (link)
	When it came out that Charleton Heston had Alzheimer's, Clooney made jokes about it, then refused to apologize when he was called on it. I mean, disagree with someone's politics all you want, but expressing glee over a fellow human being's terminal illness is a truly incredible level of douchebaggery. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cassildra 2011-04-17 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, that's pretty awful. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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