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BAD MANNERS, BLOGWAR AND WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS?

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Iain

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 The much awaited piece about Blogwar with some mention of the author of this blog and his ongoing Internet conflicts. A recommended piece that suggests to us all the folly of taking that argument too far. :cool:

Filed under: Blogging, Flamers

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8 Responses

  1. The Editor, on February 7th, 2007 at 4:48 pm Said:

    Put the sanctimonious away, Iain. You’ve done some fairly despicable stuff during your online existence. Not to mention taking one particular argument waaaay too far.

  2. Iain, on February 7th, 2007 at 5:43 pm Said:

    Scott
    I have certainly done things that with the benefit of hindsight I would now do differently but It the absence of a Tardis I just have to work on the adage “what’s done is done”. However when the other side will not let bygones be bygones what am I to do? All I will say to you is until you have been caught up in a Blogwar please don’t try to moralize on the actions of one side with out considering the tactics of both sides. You seem like reasonable chap so perhaps you can see that if I have done things that you consider to be “despicable” then it is not in any sense moral or ethical for others to do the same or worse to me in return. As I conceded at Adrien’s blog I have not been an angel but by the same token I could have been far more ruthless in response to the continued provocation, a complaint to the Victorian bar could have done a particular barrister a great deal of harm, but no complaint was lodged, Has the final admission of his identity hurt Sear? Have any of the fellow travellers really suffered? Everett is still dull; Mikey has nothing to fear from me I don’t care enough to do him harm (apart from a few biting comments) Greado is still deluded. Janine has retreated to lick her wounds; even you and I can be civil to each other.
    Troll-boy however wants nothing less than me gone from the net (he will not get that) he sounds more impotent with every new post at his hate site because having shot his wad by publishing my address he has nothing more that can hurt me. And his rants make him look like the right tosser that he is. If he fell under a bus tonight I would not shed a tear but I would not go out of my way to harm even him. I am weary of all of this animosity and just long for civility and a bit of friendly debate but I am not going to slink away and take the cowards option of reinventing myself under a pseudonym. I am here and I’ll tough it out for as long as it takes.

  3. Keith, on February 10th, 2007 at 6:14 am Said:

    ” I am here and I’ll tough it out for as long as it takes.”
    Good for you. :-)

  4. Iain, on February 10th, 2007 at 6:31 am Said:

    When a negotiated settlement is not possible, (I have tried repeatedly) then the choices are surrender or defiance, and I choose the latter; I think it’s rather like the war on terror actually. :cool:

  5. PKD, on February 11th, 2007 at 8:38 am Said:

    Put the sanctimonious away, Iain. You’ve done some fairly despicable stuff during your online existence. Not to mention taking one particular argument waaaay too far.

    Yeah, It certainly does take two to tango – and Iain has done his fair share of steping on other peoples toes in the process. But no-one deserves to be threatened on-line, regardless of opinion…

  6. Iain, on February 11th, 2007 at 8:45 am Said:

    Yeah, It certainly does take two to tango – and Iain has done his fair share of steping on other peoples toes in the process. But no-one deserves to be threatened on-line, regardless of opinion…

    Thanks for that PKD :) at last some sense from a lefty rather than the usual hypocracy.

  7. PKD, on February 11th, 2007 at 8:54 am Said:

    Well it is an open-ended/minded comment – like I said it does read both ways!

    at last some sense from a lefty
    Again you forget I am not a lefty, but centrist – it’s not a left/right, black/white, good vs evil world – no one side has the monopoly on good ideas IMO….

  8. Iain, on February 11th, 2007 at 9:13 am Said:

    I’m not going to get too hung up about labels here, You say that you are a Centrist and I tend to think that there is a leftist lean to your politics none the less. :grin: I will however concede that neither side of the political spectrum has any kind of monopoly on all of the truth.

    For instance I don’t support the “work choices IR stuff at all” does that make ME a lefty? :cool:

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