Some people should not be on the internet

[sparkfrost]

Look- people are NOT nice on the internet! This is obviously not everyone ever, but if you are a member of a ranting community and you post a bitchy rant you should maybe expect people to be not so nice in return, ok?

Basically- a member posted a rant about customers that several of thought was not as sucky as the OP though. But as soon as we expressed this point of view (politely!) the OP started jumping down our throats. After a bit of back and forth I got tired of arguing and stopped responding. I didn't think much more of it until today, when the new mod decided to bitch me out for daring to disagree. Her comment, and I quote:

buggrit_1979: This community is called customerssuck. And you know something? Many people DO think customers that hang out after close are dicks. I know I do. It's a topic that has been discussed many times in this community, and I'm not getting why this particular post became a target for deep dickery, but drop it.

I said: I thought we were also supposed to be professionals who do our jobs. I can see why everanddespair was annoyed, I just didn't see the suck.

And speaking of dropping it, I last commented two days ago. You're the one who picked it back up.

She comes back with: I didn't see anyplace in the post where she didn't do her job. Being professional does not mean NOT complaining later, out of the customer's hearing, about something that upsets one.

And I only found all this shit out today, or I'd surely have said something sooner.

So, let me get this straight- your community rules say that people are allowed to disagree as long as they do it politely, but as soon as I do that I get bitched at? Throughout the initial exchange everanddespair was ridiculously aggressive with me, yet she gets defended and I get bitched at? Whatever.

The icing on the cake is the mod post that buggrit_1979 made this afternoon, basically telling everyone who had disagreed on that post to STFU, GTFO and DIAF. That's some great Mod work there, Lou.

Well, about 15 people, including me, have already left the community and more are doing so as I refresh and check. Bug has since edited the post to a more 'snuggletimez' response, but people seem to be onto her bullshit.

Basically, neener neener, enjoy your sucky poorly run community!

Comments

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Edit: I turned off comment notification ages ago, I have no idea what's going on in the comments and I don't plan to look because I enjoy my sanity a leetle too much for that.

So if you're in there someplace slamming me, I'm sorry your efforts are being wasted.

Wow, sand on one's modly vagina much? That's ... awesome, and I am the queen of non-confrontation when I say this. I bow in the presence of buggritwhateverthefuck's superior avoidance skillz. They are 1337er than mine.

[xsnarkasaurus.livejournal.com]

I left that comm ages ago due to the shoddy modding. i'm sorry, you don't state rules just to say, "Oh, they only apply to our favorites, get the fuck out."

[anothersadsong.livejournal.com]

oh, the internetz. srs bsns, you know. wanna borrow my rusty spork of doom?

[starmind.livejournal.com]

I stopped going to CS a while back. Technically, I was banned, but after reading some of the crap that goes on there, it's a far, far cry from what it was and I wasn't interested in being there. It's more of a "See how we can stand here and take a customers crap for hours? See how cool we are?"

Sorry, that's not the way I go. If a customer treats me like crap, s/he gets it back. But then, I do live in an employee's market.

[silverdragon729.livejournal.com]

Seriously, buggrit totally latched onto everanddespair, who is terribly controversial in a bunch of her posts.

But, honestly, I love the whole "I only saw it now, but I'm going to start the problem again and pretend it was days ago, so drop this already dead topic."

Buggrit is the mod they go to when they want shit started. And everanddespair, at least, didn't do that. That other bitch fellboheme or some shit was the one who did.

On the plus side, I told Everanddespair that I lost all respect for her, and I think she figured out who I was (I was using an old journal) and restored all the comments that they deleted.