Angry internet commenters

Raemie

Had quite an odd day yesterday, a website review i wrote for my college paper went down very badly and i was subject to a raft of complaints and abuse on my blog, my twitter and the paper's web site.

I was wondering though, has anyone been the subject of a hate campaign or received enraged replies to something you wrote or said? I think i got off quite lightly considering this is the internet and i'd love to hear stories if you've got em.

Super-Rush

I moderate After Hours, what do you think?

PirateShampoo

Simple, don't write **** reviews.

Cuddlesworth

super-rush wrote: »

I moderate After Hours, what do you think?

That there will be a new tax on Fluffy moderators pants.

MonkeyTennis

you may have too much free time

Millicent

Yup, I wrote an article about stem-cell research. You can guess how that went down with some of the more mentally questionable right wing zealots on the interwebz!

bigeasyeah

I hate pinko commies.

InkSlinger67

I hear clown college critics can be ruthless

Dunjohn

Sort-of, yeah, but not quite. I was involved in an adjustment made to a product a couple of years ago that threw down some sharp battlelines among the fans. It didn't get personal, it stayed directed at the company and those in charge so no angry emails for me, but it really showed me how passionate people can be, both those who agreed with the changes and those who detested them.

Columbia

I knew a real artsy-fartsy girl a few years back, very self-obsessed and very sure of her own abilities as a writer. Unfortunately, she may have in fact been the worst writer I've ever seen, and one day out of boredom I took one of her short stories and wrote a long, detailed blog outlining everything I found wrong with it.

She came across it months later and there was a bit of a hate campaign launched by her and her friends. I was hoping it'd be something awfully exciting like a Salman Rushdie situation or some such, but unfortunately 18-year-old girls aren't as inventive as that.

The whole thing could have been avoided if she hadn't been vaingloriously googling her own name, I'll say that.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

super-rush wrote: »

I moderate After Hours, what do you think?

You're a newbie. We haven't started on you yet. Now where're those biscuits I asked for?

OP - you are, I assume, going to tell us at some point, what the article was about?

Dunjohn

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

You're a newbie. We haven't started on you yet. Now where're those biscuits I asked for?

OP - you are, I assume, going to tell us at some point, what the article was about?

What, so we can all spam up his email and twitter with even more hateful comments?

... yeah, OP, where's the link?

Super-Rush

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

You're a newbie. We haven't started on you yet. Now where're those biscuits I asked for?

OP - you are, I assume, going to tell us at some point, what the article was about?

What would you like? Pink Fingers?

redout

Soccer forum tbh.

Raemie

Columbia wrote: »

The whole thing could have been avoided if she hadn't been vaingloriously googling her own name, I'll say that.

ah come on, ego-surfing is a wonderful pastime, surprised it took her so many months.

Mint Sauce

super-rush wrote: »

I moderate After Hours, what do you think?

or a mod on any forum for that matter, your always going to get people that disagree with you

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Dunjohn wrote: »

What, so we can all spam up his email and twitter with even more hateful comments?

... yeah, OP, where's the link?

Asked for the gist of the articale, not his personal details!

super-rush wrote: »

What would you like? Pink Fingers?

No, cheers - I'm staright. Chocolate digestives. You should know this by now. *calls for new mod!*

Raemie

Well, it was just a review of a website that was supposed to a bit lighthearted but it wasn't taken as such. Complaints were all from fans of the site rather than students. Never really considered that non-students would read it to be honest. It was a strange experience, being tweeted by scary americans :P

Alessandra

You must realise that by posting in a public forum you are leaving yourself open to criticism just as much as you are open to praise.
Sometimes people on the web use the shield of anonymity that forums such as this may offer and it is all the easier to insult people anonymously. Take it on the chin and if you cant take criticism blogging is not for you.

IvySlayer

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: I'm angry :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

recylingbin

Link it up.
I'll post something positive...honest guv.

Biggins

I was wondering though, has anyone been the subject of a hate campaign or received enraged replies to something you wrote or said?

Get it all the time when I speak out again the closing of vital services, locally and and in Dublin like the Crumlins Childrens Hospital.
The FF/Greens don't like me and other public pointing out that they are lashing out at our kids, causing cancellations of operations, closing of wards, cut back of services and vital staff, etc... Example: something I wrote for the Irish Mail and was printed in their paper: HERE
(I have one daughter attending there with an incurable infliction - she attends for stabilisation of her condition and thus hopefully not to see its advancement)
...Then when I speak out about how the rights of the culprits seem to have more sway and precedence with them rather than the victims of the criminal scumbags - the nastiness of political motivated others REALLY comes to the fore.
(I support and fund raise for the Dublin Rape Crises Centre)

Stuff them - they're not shutting this irritating fogie up!

O! ...and the Scientology cult REALLY, REALLY don't like me - but thats another story.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Raemie wrote: »

Well, it was just a review of a website that was supposed to a bit lighthearted but it wasn't taken as such. Complaints were all from fans of the site rather than students. Never really considered that non-students would read it to be honest. It was a strange experience, being tweeted by scary americans :P

... wasn't THIS wesbite, by any chance was it...?

Raemie

Biggins wrote: »

O! ...and the Scientology cult REALLY, REALLY don't like me - but thats another story.

sounds like a story i'd like to hear, if they're pissed off then you're doing something right.

I'd never decry boards, the scariness is part of its charm

OutlawPete

Biggins wrote: »

O! ...and the Scientology cult REALLY, REALLY don't like me - but thats another story.

That guy on Abbey St offering personality tests is there for 20 years.

The first time he ever approached me was when I was coming out of the old Lighthouse Cinema on Abbey St and he asked me did I want a personality test.

I just said "Personality test for what?" and he said "to see if there are any parts of your personality that are blocked that we can help you unfree".

I just laughed and said "Will you get to fcuk".

I wasn't laughing out of knowledge of Scientology or anything. I thought he was queer and was coming on to me :pac:

Biggins

OutlawPete wrote: »

...I just laughed and said "Will you get to fcuk".

I wasn't laughing out of knowledge of Scientology or anything. I thought he was queer and was coming on to me :pac:

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac: LOL :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

Class.

Overheal

super-rush wrote: »

I moderate After Hours, what do you think?

Get back to work you /:mad:->

Trashbat

Dunjohn wrote: »

Sort-of, yeah, but not quite. I was involved in an adjustment made to a product a couple of years ago that threw down some sharp battlelines among the fans. It didn't get personal, it stayed directed at the company and those in charge so no angry emails for me, but it really showed me how passionate people can be, both those who agreed with the changes and those who detested them.

You changed Coco-Pops to Choco-Krispies?

Evil!

Glenster

I was recently hounded out of temple bar by a lynch mob of OAP's and unemployed fat women.

It's burning up the Globo-net

matt-dublin

Raemie wrote: »

Had quite an odd day yesterday, a website review i wrote for my college paper went down very badly and i was subject to a raft of complaints and abuse on my blog, my twitter and the paper's web site.

I was wondering though, has anyone been the subject of a hate campaign or received enraged replies to something you wrote or said? I think i got off quite lightly considering this is the internet and i'd love to hear stories if you've got em.

linky ????

high heels

Glenster wrote: »

I was recently hounded out of temple bar by a lynch mob of OAP's and unemployed fat women.

It's burning up the Globo-net

Really

On the internet you want to be know as a rapest.. Well done to you.. You really had me going that you are one too..


/ffs stupid people make me

General Zod

Biggins wrote: »

O! ...and the Scientology cult REALLY, REALLY don't like me - but thats another story.

we should form a support group :P