I stood up for Lucas because he was being bullied mercilessly and tonight I stood up for Pearl,

Defender of the realm.

If your going to swim with the sharks, you had better have some pretty sharp teeth.

I guess it's beside the point that neither asked for any defence.

Anyway, I've kept out of this crazy disruptive feud up to this point, when you dragged me, in as you tore into Pearls article.

By defending Pearl without her asking, you made the comments on that thread all the more embarressing to her. It's possibly why she never returned to comment or edit her post.

I also have yet to see that Lucas has asked for your "helping" him, in fact from what I have seen, he seems to wish you wouldnt.


I often give this morsel of advice to my friends: You would be best advised to worry about yourself rather than others.

Bravado is very unbecoming and really serves no constructive purpose in the end. Pick your fights wisely, and know when to quit while you're ahead.


As the most junior member of the clan, I've learned quite a bit from this fiasco, from when it first started about a couple of weeks ago. I really can't see that you have made any headway since then, but you insist on trying. Be that as it may, but for all the world, I can't understand why you had to drag me into it. I could live with the blanket "sheep" comment, but when I get labled as horrible, arrogant, and egotistical on top of it, well that gives me the right to speak up.

I'm even willing to let all that go, for in all reality it's very petty. Please stop shooting yourself in the foot. You seem to be at the root of all the discord, whether you are the cause of the problem or otherwise. You have said more than your peace, and all are aware of how you feel. If you feel you have been slighted by LW, then be the bigger person and let it go, whether or not little jabs come here and there. IMHO, you are simply out-classed by LW, and you're never going to make any headway with her. Continuing on with all this is little more than entertainment for some of us at your expence, and simply damages your credibility in the eyes of those you are trying to convince.

I haven't jumped on the bandwagon here, and I hope you'll see that I'm just trying to impart some friendly advice. I sure hope you see it that way, but I guess only time will tell.

I respect Jen and I like LW.

That doesn't mean I'm always nice to them. My respect for people based on their ability.

But I have to say, I overwhelmingly agree with this blog.  Jen's blogs are very much the kind of thing that I had hoped for on JU.  A user who blogs several times per day about whatever they want.

MOST blogs out there that are active have dozens of new posts on them per day. That's what a blog is.

I have begun nullifying (i.e. they become hidden effectively) blogs that are just nasty and against other JUers. I'm not quite at the point where I'm going to just outright forbid them but as I find them, I make them effectively disappear from the site's distribution system.

The concept that one person trying to succeed as somehow harming someone else seems very unlike LW.

I have always felt a certain level of sadness towards those who accuse others of being "after points" because they are active.

Look at the top 10 blogs on JU by points:

#1 MINE. 95,461 points.

#2 HC's (not sure what that' sabout -checking into it): 23,504

Look at the point difference.  Anything under 50,000 points is effectively noise. That means, all it would take to pop into the top 10 is to have a single very popular article.

Comments and posts are worth trivial amounts of points. The best and easiest way to become popular is READERS.

My Rush blasts Instapundit article has 10,354 points all by itself. Do some of the people who are obsessed with points get that? That article, by itself, would make my blog 15th on JU. ONE blog article.

Jen's articles are about the things she wants to write about. Good for her I say! And to anyone who thinks her motivation is to be in the top 10 list, I say to them: Get a life. And get an idea of just how ridiculously easy it is to get into the top 10.

To go on a rant, it's the same sort of frustration I have with poor people thinking how "hard" it is to get rich or to at least not be poor. It's not hard. It just takes some sense.  Look at what the people who succeed do and understand how they do it.

Similarly, look at how the top blog sites got popular.  My top blogs have NOTHING To do with me owning the blog (other than the GalCiv related ones which are a small %). This article has 129,000 points (only a small % of it is in the past 30 days). 

 

Some people are white trash.

Some people are white trash.

Are you referring to anybody in particular Icon?

Are you referring to anybody in particular Icon?

Anyone who enjoys "wallowing in the mud."

Brad: I don't think the point was that she (Jen) was active, but rather she was down right nasty to a lot of JUers--starting with FS and ending with anyone who dared utter anything in favor of FS. I think the "FU, JU" article (I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist of it) didn't help her win any friends either.

Anyone who enjoys "wallowing in the mud."

Yourself included from what I can tell. I wouldn't get all high and mighty.

Yourself included from what I can tell. I wouldn't get all high and mighty.

Just because I want to see what's happening doesn't mean I enjoy it.

Yet here you are.

Iconoclast spends most of his time issuing one-liners toward people who believe in God. I'm thinking that a troll of his caliber has little to point to in other people.

Yet here you are.

So are you. Do you know you should be above it? Do you want it to stop, or do you want more?


When you see or read about a tragic or disgusting incident, are you glad it happened?

I know I haven't always tried to be above it, but I know I should. Do you?

#2 HC's (not sure what that' sabout -checking into it): 23,504

I was wondering about this. HC is a very good friend of mine. I see her personally at least three times a week, but she has not written an article in quite a while.

Some people are white trash.

nobody deserves to be called such names. That's really uncalled for.

nobody deserves to be called such names. That's really uncalled for.

If the shoe doesn't fit, don't worry about it.

"If the shoe doesn't fit, don't worry about it."

That's basically what LW is saying. Yet she's supposedly white trash, and you are... the enlightened castigating us with one liners ever other day... for our own good?

Its been interesting the past couple of days. Now I'm a:

Horrible, egotistical, arrogant, arse-licking sheep of a piece of white trash.

Are these people in league with my ex-wife?