{"id":30,"date":"2004-06-19T20:40:27","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T00:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=30"},"modified":"2004-06-21T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T03:12:14","slug":"and-you-thought-ljdramaorg-showed-some-nastiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"And you thought LJdrama.org showed some nastiness…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As everyone knows, LJDrama<\/a> is, shall we say, the Jerry Springer Show of the ‘net. If you want quick and dirty, low-brow comedy at the expense of LJ’ers (often perceived as the low-end untouchables of the blogging caste system) who want to air out their dirty laundry for all to see, that’s the site to go to.<\/p>\n

But for those of us who prefer high-brow, sophisticated bitch-slapping, we need only to look in the direction of weblogs.com.
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\nEarly this week, I commented on the the sudden disappearance of 3,000 or so weblogs<\/a> when blogging pioneer-turned-apparent-kook Dave Winer<\/a> decided he was unwilling or unable to host them all any further. Originally a semi-civilized chain of events, things have gotten really ugly. Since my last post on the issue:<\/p>\n

– Others in the blogging community have taken up the slack, and Winer has transferred the blogs to a new service. An orderly transition plan appears to be in place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– In spite of what seems like an orderly end to the situation that (hopefully) will result in everyone getting their stuff back, a barrage of drama<\/a>, nasty comments<\/a> and even death threats<\/a> have been slung around to those who would dare criticize the father of blogging for his actions. Death threats! To quote a blogger who’s been mudslinged in all of this, “People, WTF?!”<\/a><\/p>\n

And so now I must issue yet more advice to bloggers. My first bit of advice was to back up your shit.<\/em> Now the second bit, and I think this is more pressing under the circumstances: show some maturity.<\/strong><\/em> I’ll be the first to admit that we get very attached to our blogs and sites and photos albums and interactions with the “community,” and that’s healthy… to a point. And granted, people who make this their lives take other people’s slights, criticisms and even insults seriously, sometimes a little too seriously. But, goddamn! A death threat?!<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Remember folks, this is just the internet. When you get down to it, it’s just bits and pixels. But beware: if you act like an ass, if you threaten people, if you take it too personally<\/strong>, then the selective memory of the ‘net will not work in your favor. Those words will be a lot more permanent than any and all things positive you might have contributed… the good will be forgotten, but the bad will bite you in the ass for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dave Winer Situation, where 3,000+ blogs were stuck in internet limbo, has gotten seriously dramatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}