Good old Mitch Sullivan, the recruitment expert, has the right idea about interacting online; it's not the real world, so don't take it too seriously. Wise words and I'm trying, honestly.
However, this year, the behaviour of one particular person in one particular forum (LT) got right under my skin. It didn't seem to bother anyone else in the forum, so I guess it was just my own weak spot. I tried ignoring it, I tried just staying away, I tried mocking the behaviour as Mitch advised and none of it worked. So I left the forum and asked the owner to delete my account. And I once again became more active on Ecademy, where I started out my online networking activities in December 2004.
For the good order, I would like to express my appreciation for various people on LT:
- Coaksey for his humour, balance and for sharing difficult moments of his year
- Rupert for his intelligence, erudition and for playing the ball, not the man
- JH for patiently hosting the whole thing
- Mollie for her unique wit and incisive perspectives
- Rachie for putting me straight on websites
- RAD for being an all-round good man with a great sense of fairness
- Mitch for being a provocative, funny and insightful nutter
- MJ for his dry, wry, pithy humour
- Bood for being the deep-thinking, reflective peace-maker
- JW for reconciling me with Ecademy again
- Nikki for taking no prisoners
- DH for being a unique monomaniac
- Essex Girl for her spirit, curiosity and kindness.
Apologies to anyone I've missed out - I guess we weren't so much on each other's radar.
Friday, 18 September 2009
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You will be missed Stuarte.
I was wondering how it feels to be back at Ecademy? ~Good? bad? prodigal son?
As a Blackstar you are treated differently from the ordinary members who are banned on a whim from the management. Going back condones all the bad practices and makes them more credible. Is that something that you are happy with?
It feels more grown up. I was my own man before but even more so now.
As far as I'm concerned "going back" doesn't condone anything. It gives me a better position to stand up for what I think is right and to criticise what I think is wrong.
The way I get treated is not about being a BlackStar, it's about whatever personal status I've managed to accrue.
I have many old and valued connections and a few new ones in Ecademy, none of whom are patsies. They just have more constructive ways of interacting online than the eminence grise of LT does. It's great to be back in touch with them.
Standing up for what's fair and right, good. Just don't get bogged down with it all.
Who was it said the grass isn't greener on the other side, it's still grass? Quotes are not my thing.
Is it not possible to be bi-cultural here and build some bridges between both communities? Why does it have be one and not the other? Both contain very good people.
I certainly won't get bogged down, don't worry.
For a while LT was vibrant and had a buzz of its own. But too much of it has become a sneerathon with petty point scoring. I got bogged down in that and I've now had enough.
Sneerathon?
Is doing that to the English Language even legal!? ;)
Simon you remind me of a conversation with a lady in France. She apologised that the rooftop view from her apartment was not "un beau paysage".
So I coined a word: "Non, mais c'est un beau toitage" (roofscape).
And she looked embarrassed and said that the word didn't exist in French. So I asked if she had understood my meaning. She had, perfectly.
Fortunately in English there is no body that rules on the legality or otherwise of neologisms. And since I write for a living, and I tend to be quite strait-laced in my writing, I'm comfortable with "sneerathon". I'm sure you known what I mean. Let me know if you don't ;)
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