Let me tell you something. Never upset the fanboys when they have access to The Button, even the ones at the liberal minded progressive blogging leaders of WordPress.
Write one nasty dissenting profanity-laden review of a fanboy’s favourite TV show and all of a sudden your Blog is blocked; but not because of the dissenting part, because thus the flaw would be to easily revealed. The real reason must be hidden with subterfuge. The excuse instituted was because of my affinity to use the word fuck. I love the word fuck. It’s a malleable word and I see nothing dirty about it. But then I’m French, there’s not much I find dirty.
But let’s be frank, the blogosphere (there’s a word I despise using) is filled with blogs with profanity, pornography and things much more prurient and nauseating than my liberal use of the word fuck, even on the WordPress network of Blogs.
I have also tasted the backlash of fanboys before when I reviewed Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children for the online magazine Blogcritics.org in which I harshly criticized the hyper-feminization of the male characters in the story. They came out of the woodwork and many comments on the reposted review on my old blog had to be deleted for all the hateful nasty and distasteful crap they contained that were beyond anything I could possibly come up with using the word fuck. And my policy is not to delete comments, even the ones I don’t like, but they were really horrid.
So earlier this week, following the despondently tedious 6th episode of Heroes I posted an open-letter to Tim Kring, Creator of the series, letting him know that I had given up on his series. Not that I think he would read it. My post was more soliloquy than it was a true open-letter. Click Here to read my post. It was written in what is my off-the-cuff manor, which is how I always write. I write as I feel. How I feel depends on what chemicals are currently influencing my brain functions. Brain-manufactured dopamine can be a bitch sometimes.
A few hours later, someone posts a comment to my blog post:
Wow, a little angry are we? I can understand your frustration, but since you are incapable of using polite language, I’ll be blocking your blog entirely.[my emphasis]
Pity, you almost had something interesting to say, but then it’s hard to get past the cursing you inserted more frequently than Tim’s obvious hints in this episode….
Pots and kettles… pots and kettles…
(And I can’t wait til next week to see how wrong you are…..)
Angry? Me? Why yes I was. The potential of this series had been completely squandered. Yes I was angry. That’s the difference between a real fan and fanboys. Fans support until the shark has been jumped. Fanboys, they are fans no matter what and they defend with the maniacal dogmatic determination of religious fundamentalists.
Block me? Fine don’t visit my blog. I use foul language all the time. It’s how I write. Deal with it or go to Disneyland. Either way I’m not changing my writing style. My blog, my sandbox, fuck off.
But I figured, it was removing me from its newsreader or something. That was until I went looking for what others were saying about the inadequate episode. Well looky here… my blog appears NOWHERE. I started looking for it, purposefully. It was for all intent and purposes, gone from all Heroes related discussions on the WordPress network.
Not being too much of an idiot I quickly put 2 and 2 together. That fucking fanboy is either a moderator or an administrator at WordPress and it blocked my blog from the system to cut me off from the discourse, the dialog and of course the traffic. Well I wasn’t gonna let IT push me around.
IT blocked me under mendacious pretenses on top of it. Because of my profane language? What? Since when has bad language been an issue for censorship on the blogosphere? So you know what this is, right? This is a frustrated little fanboy who couldn’t handle having the object of its obsession getting trashed around like the 6$ hooker that it is. And IT happens to have admin rights on the WordPress network. Yes an upset nerd with access to the Big Button decided to censor me like a Republican would like to censor evolution in High Schools.
So now we have to watch what we say or else the little basement-dwelling momma’s boys with delusions of Pinochetism will censor you and block you because they don’t like what you say. Yes just what the last bastion of unfettered free speech needed, dictators with their trigger-fingers on the ban buttons.
A new era of thought-policing terrorism begins where the leaders of the grass-roots of self-publishing are letting little would-be word tyrants take blogger’s hostage because they don’t think our content should be published on an ideological basis and then hide behind codes of conduct to accomplish their goals. The TOS wasn’t broken and yet I was banished to some sort of WordPress limbo for having ideas that weren’t in concordance with those of one of their draconian admins.
In the words of R.J. MacReady: “Yeah Well Fuck You To!”
Fortunately, thankfully there are still level-headed and reasoned individuals at WordPress for within minutes of sending of my letter of complaint, my blog was unblocked and reinstated and for that I am grateful. And despite hours of being blocked from the network, and this is my little revenge, I had the largest traffic day my blog has ever had so far. So Neener-Neener IT, your planned really backfired on you in many ways.
I have yet to receive an e-mail of acknowledgment/apology from WordPress concerning the rectification of this act of discrimination. Probably because they don’t want to admit that someone on the inside did this and would rather blame it on a technical glitch in the system. But either way apology accepted.
But in the end, I AM, THEREFORE I GLOAT so: Basement Dwelling Virgin Fanboy 0, Darkly Dreaming David 1.
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