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Old 12-26-2005, 03:48 PM   #21
Tonchi
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Tonchi was spending Christmas Eve, as she does every midnight of every day of the year, monitoring a forum where people from more than 30 countries visit and sometimes think it is cute to take a dump. She has been doing this in one form or another for 8 years now.

There is another old thread here which is very interesting, in which a person whose posts I always appreciated complained because UT deleted and banned a newbie after only a few posts. These posts seemed to me very indicative of what we could expect in the future from this jerk, but some did not agree. UT does not have to justify himself, but nevertheless he explained to us with a statement which really resounded with me: he said that after all this time he has developed an uncanny instinct about this. You know right from hello. He is right. The comment I made was extremely bland compared to the REAL bashes and flames that get written here all the time, but the way this person responded said all I needed to know about her(?). It was a perfect snapshot. But as far as that goes, of no importance whatever.

I can LEARN something from UG (who I can consider an idiot without losing interest in reading what he has to say) and also from tw (who never knows when to stop saying what he has to say). We have had a 15-year-old girl writing here before who thought carefully about what she said, and we have had several 15-year-old trolls who will probably never say anything thoughtful for the rest of their lives. It isn't necessary to agree with the people here, but it IS necessary to be able to express yourself well. A 12-year-old mind in a 33-year-old body doesn't cut it with me.

I have had to read breathtakingly stupid remarks on 5 forums in two languages as part of my duties, but those kids really ARE 12-years-old so they have an excuse. But here it's different, you have to be prepared to defend yourself or work with others instead of just pitching a prepubscent rant if you feel unappreciated since you are such a "genuinely nice and funny person" in your own mind. Don't expect that what works in your own little peer group will go over here. And don't snivel if it doesn't, for Christs sake!

All in all, you better take a lesson from my evil twin Marichiko, who has had to put up with some of the nastiest comments ever, and she lets it roll right off her.
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