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Submitted by stevenl on Wed, 03/07/2007 - 7:50am.

Richard Slimeball Nixon Lies AgainOne has to wonder about this OlyBlog behavior pattern I have seen among some of our more conservative members who have left the discussion group after making very strong statements about how horrible, unfair, and hypocrital we are. I've lost count on how many times this has happened, but it has always been with those speaking from the reactionary, rather than the visionary view. They say they are through and we won't have them to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last blog entry ...

And then they come back.

Why?

Is there a term for this kind of blog behavior? Blog Quitter? Blog Nixon? Blog Boomerang? What? Are they really coming back because they enjoy the attention? Enjoy stirring the pot? Enjoy watching the rest of us take the bait? A secret desire to break out of their conceptual prison? An self-righteous ego boost? What is the deal here?

My suggestion is this. When someone storms out of OlyBlog in a huff, they should be required to take an anger management course and show proof of said education before being allowed back in. Only a friendly suggestion. If Nixon had taken one between 1962-1968 perhaps history would've been different.

Love and kisses, stevenl

PS, will_is_ok, you're out past your bedtime. Come back please.

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This reminds me........

....a few nights back I dreamt that there was an online game called "Bait the Progressive" and that I needed to blog about this, using an image of either a fishing hook being baited or a matador taunting a bull with a red cape. Alas, I haven't actually written up a blog post about this yet, mostly because I've not found the right image to use. Plus I'm still sicky with flu.

Okay, so I like the name propositions, I'll add Blog Stomper too, which might better apply to slightly different behavior. I also very much like the -visionary- or -reactionary- choices, me, I'll try to lean towards the approaching visionary. (Unless of course it involves caimans, then I must react.)
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Oh, now I would never do

Oh, now I would never do anything like that.

 

eh...

 

Anyways, I was upset, a few Olybloggers convinced me to just turn it into a timeout to let the Holiday stresses go away, and I found while I was gone that I missed this place.

 

I do not stir the pot or bait people. But I'm a few clicks away from the extreme left so sometimes people react to my reaction. Or sometime I react to their reaction. I didn't appreciate being told that some of my beliefs aren't open for debate, that I'm just wrong and need to accept that the Usual Gang here is right. But that's an argument for another day.

 

Anyways, I thought we were all working on that.

 

Now if I, or anyone, made a habit of posting semi-annually "I'm out of here" blogs it would become a joke.

 

 

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Why anger management? Maybe

Why anger management? Maybe if the wounded party left with a blustery tirade of abuse but I haven't seen too much of that. It takes two to tango and while I've somewhat come to realize some of my habits that weren't too compatible with productive discussion that isn't a fault exclusive to the more Conservative crowd.

 

Putting up a front page post making fun of them and implying that they're socially lacking is a cheap shot IMHO.

 

Lefty: I think we should do it this way.
Righy: I think we should do it that way.
Lefty: That's disrespectful to me! You're wrong to want to do it that way!
Crowd: Yeah, I agree. You're not helping Righty!
Righy: Fine, I'll go someplace else where my voice counts. (Leaves)
Lefty: What's with him?

 

 

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Passions rise.  Sometimes

Passions rise.  Sometimes we need a break.  I like blog boomerang.  I have left some blogs pretty conclusively because they tolerate trolls.  Olyblog is unusual because there are people posting here who I may know personally or meet because of the Oly nexus.  Harder to walk away and stay away. There is an opportunity for discussion and information here to become part of my day to day life.
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You must have been reading

You must have been reading my mind because I was thinking last night about posting a blog all about the infamous "goodbye post" because since I have been on here....everyone who has posted a dramatic "goodbye post" is back within a couple of weeks.  It's very interesting.  Do they deep down hope that everyone will beg them to stay?  Or is it just a spur of the moment, reactionary thing that there is no thought put into it ~ almost compulsive and then when they don't feel upset anymore they just simply come back.  I think that taking a break and telling people you are taking a break is one thing but posting blogs that say "I can't take it anymore and I'm leaving so there!" and then coming back a week later is odd.

 

“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver

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For what it's worth I felt a

For what it's worth I felt a bit sheepish when I slunk back.

 

There was once upon a time another Olympia-based website. One year it seemed every guy took turns posting their late-night "I can't take it anymore, I'm tired of it all, goodbye cruel world" suicide note. Uh, one guy maybe, if he were looking for excuses, could claim that he had stopped taking Prozac not long before posting his embarrassment. I'm not sure about the others.

 

 

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Gbcw

I just discovered Gbcw which stands for "goodbye cruel world", originally used for Daily Kos contentious farewell posts.

In the prime example given through that first link is this great bit:

You all suck. A lot of you wouldn't know what a progressive thought was if it bit you in the ass. To you, a progressive thought is whatever the Democratic party line spoonfeeds you.

I think that "You all suck" could be refined down to a Yas.

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Yikes! We were both thinking

Yikes! We were both thinking of GBCW posts at the same time.

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The OlyBlog Effect

Merwyn and I were thinking of GBCW posts at the same time, this may very well be evidence of The OlyBlog Effect. A mysterious force field that causes chaotically intriguing coincidences.

While I'm here, something else I just thought up, stevenl titled his post with The Sociologist In Me, perhaps this means that even now, as we blog, he is watching and taking sociological notes.
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I was way off

At first I thought he titled it "The Scientologist in me..."
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I think every last one of

I think every last one of you takes this way too seriously. As a solution, I offer myself as a shining example of perfect bloggerdom. You may worship me if you like and pay tribute as you see fit, but be warned that gifts of chocolate will be met with death, and probably not swift death, either. Surely OlyBlog can be united in praise of so great a deity as myself! As an alternate solution, the entire blog could stop whining about how it's being treated by the rest of the blog, be they on the left or right, and maybe, once in a while, try to let things go when they feel venom being secreted from their hatred gland. Grudges are bad, humility is good. Just a thought!

Also, Will is WAY too busy to be bothered with the likes of you fellows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HHIF4u1_i8
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That video chills my spleen.

That video chills my spleen. "It hurts to live." So true. I can see Will is busy with very important missions.
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Because everyone needs a

Because everyone needs a break from pretentious liberals. Even pretentious liberals.

Will is currently perfecting alchemy. He will turn OlyBlog into gold.
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Are you suggesting...

that some of us need better follow-through?
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How can I start missing you

How can I start missing you if you won't leave?
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How will I know you miss me

How will I know you miss me if I leave?

Gosh Mike I didn't know you liked me so much Wink

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I think it's similar

to when you are at the zoo and see a creepy critter.  You are freaked out looking at it but you just have to look.  Or driving by a car wreck, some just need to look even though they really don't want to see the mess.  Or maybe like doing dope, you want to quit but you just can't get the monkey off your back.  :)  Just kidding!!!

There have been a number of people that have left never to return.  Slyvester something, FKP1 or FPK1, White Feather, and a few others.  So not all come back, probably only those that may have made other relationships here outside of the blog do return. 

An equally important question as to why they leave and come back, is why the majority here create an environment here that drives people off.

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." (emphasis added) ~~ Mahatma Gandhi

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Compulsive road kill viewing +? for OC

I tell myself to not look at that obviously dead animal in the road but of course I do. Yuck. OC you have a good point here, I think there is something compulsive for many of us about web communication and disagreements. We just gotta look and respond.

"An equally important question as to why they leave and come back, is why the majority here create an environment here that drives people off." OC

Could you write more about this? I truly don't agree but I'm open to hearing your perception.


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LOL

"An equally important question as to why they leave and come back, is why the majority here create an environment here that drives people off."

Sarah, I'm not going to comment further as to my personal experiances here, because to do so I will need to give examples.  Those examples would be clear as to the author, and I could plan on more abuse from each of them.  I really believe if you have kept up on current events here on the blog, it will be clear where my perceptions are founded.

Yesterday, I read a post by possibly a new poster.  It was in regards to Rachel Corrie being repeatedly nominated for a Darwin Award.  Both Mike and bubbaz took offense to the post, and bubbaz even deleted the posters account, and now I believe the post is gone as well.  I read the post prior to it being deleted, and yes it may have been mean spirited but it could have been meant differently.  We likely will never know, as that name/person is gone forever I guess.  Pretty harsh treatment, and a bit of a knee-jerk reaction I think, even if the comment was meant to be bad.  So I guess R. Corrie is hands off?  

People here can express themselves freely here if they think like the majority.  But, if you think differently, expect to be attacked, ridiculed or deleted.  You can call our current president a F'n idiot, but don't talk badly about Ms. Corrie.  You can call the cops pigs, but don't call the homeless transients.  

The person that got deleted yesterday probably doesn't know it yet, but bubbaz likely did him/her a favor and saved them a lot of heartache.     

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." (emphasis added) ~~ Mahatma Gandhi

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Olycop..

Give me some facts and resources when you post, not a half hearted defense of that sort of hate posting.

Im doing my best not to waste your time here, so dont waste mine.
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Bubba...

Did you delete a thread/post regarding Ms. Corrie and the Darwin awards?

Y or N?

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yes..

yes i did..

The whole post has no place here..

Olyblog is not a forum for glorifying the death of the non-violent at the hands of the oppressors.

I think the pig references should be deleted as well, but im too busy right now..

Im off the clock..
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Jeez, they have you guys

Jeez, they have you guys running in shifts? I didn't realize the blog was so mis-behaved that  we needed round-the-clock docents Wink
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Yes, I had a back channel

Yes, I had a back channel conversation with docent about the person and post being deleted.  I have reservations about it because I am think free speech is important and the real test of free speech is tolerating speech we don't like.  In my response to the post, and I thought the post was deliberately provocative and offensive, I asked if I had misunderstood the post's intent, but the person got dumped and the thread deleted before they could give a response to see if they were being misunderstood. 

I don't think there was much question about the intention of the poster and I wonder how much true heartache such a poster would have experienced here.  I think a person who really knows the meaning of heartache would leave the Corrie family alone to deal with their loss.  Such a loss is really too profound for being used as an offensive political gambit.  But that's just my opinion.


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Bubba,Here's a good place to

Edit: Nevermind, you beat me to it.

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