People like David St. Hubbins are cowards. They sit back in their own pathetic sociopathic isolation spreading venom onto the net from the privacy of their own home as a sad effort to compensate for their vast inadequacies in the real world.
And frankly, I just don't have the time or energy to put up with those kinds of people. I don't want to rehibilitate them. Some people I can see giving a second or even third chance to if there seems to be hope. But there are vile little people out there who are so empty inside that they use mechanisms like JoeUser to lash out at others.
People like Hubbins come in two forms - either they are physical cowards who are taking out their own aggression in the virtual world because it's the only place they have the courage to let their inner dickhead come out. Or they are emotional cowards who, if pissed off enough would actually go out and physically stalk their nemis's because they are too afraid to deal with the personality problems that cause people to despise them.
In either case, I just don't want those kinds of people here. And that is why we have moderation. Because in the 15 years or so I've been runnign communities, you have to draw the line somewhere or else a place gets totally out of control and everyone but the sociopaths stay.
The whole clique/club thing is a good case in point. Who cares if a group of bloggers make friends on some community? Does that hurt anyone? No. We all feel isolated from time to time but how we deal with it determines what kind of person we are.
When I go to neighborhood gettogethers I feel totally isolated as the guys want to sit around talking about fantasy football and the girls want to talk about things they've eaten and clothes they've purchased or whatever. My response isn't to lash out or hate them but rather to simply look for something else to do.
By the same token, the psyopaths that lurk around these communities need to get a life and go somewhere else rather than lashing out at those who decide to form their own social sub-communities on-line.
Now that said, you reap what you sew (to borrow a phrase from David St. Hubbins, the exiled ass who keeps lurking on a site that doesn't want him thus demonstrating his own pathetic loneliness for all the world to see). If you are going to write articles targeting particular users, you have to expect it in return. If you write an article putting someone down, they will respond.
Your blog is what you make of it. It gets on my nerves when people turn their own blogs into festering pits of hatred and ugliness and then turn around and blame me or JoeUser or whatever.
