Anti-Troll Ranting
First things first, a very very big thank you to everyone who likes and supports my Mr. Shagedelicious feature. I promise, one new cute guy per week without fail, ok? But for that, I NEED CANDIDATES!!! Send in those photos!
Oh, and Lun, I'd like pics of you in your No.4 please, and your ceremonial guard uniform. Just 2 pictures will do. Thank you sweetie, *muacks*!
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I was actually just reading Xiaxue's blog (yes I do occasionally read it), and I was pretty horrified by this particular post of hers where she seemed on the verge of breaking down. I have no doubt that people have been too hard on her. That post really struck a chord in me because for once, it was so honest, so raw, that I couldn't help but actually feel sorry for her.
I'm not saying that what she did about SPG was right, and I don't condone what she did. Even if it was done in the spirit of fun, Xiaxue still ought to have exercised some restraint. But seriously, those people who've been sending her hate comments and hate mail ought to ease up to. I'm not trying to defend Xiaxue, but there comes a point when you just get too sickened by the insults you read; they're enough to turn a child into Adolf Hitler.
The fact is, no one likes to be insulted. I don't particularly like Xiaxue, to be honest, but I completely sympathise with her on her trolls and her flamers. Sometimes I find the comments people leave on her blog freaking amusing, because the amount of stupidity and incoherence that abounds there is enough to make a cockroach feel like a genius.
But then I stop finding it amusing when the mudslinging degenerates into some really really mean insults, or when the flaming moves on to XX's friends or family. I can really understand her pain there. Fine, you know, maybe she asked for it in some cases, and I'm sure she was more or less prepared for an onslaught of flames, but not such a prolonged, vicious, or repetitive onslaught.
I can understand how she feels, because I've been flamed before by dumbass trolls who didn't know a bird's dropping about me, and yet think they know me so well just because they've read maybe 2 sentences on my blog. I've received hate mails from stupid cocksuckers without a single neuron in their skulls who think they can foist their stupid opinions on me and take whatever I write on my blog literally at face value. I've been called everything you can possibly think of from 'obese pig' to 'vulgar slut'. All because? Some morons out there decide that they don't like what I write on my blog and think that God gave them them right to dictate what I should write.
Go and sniff the flowers and wake up, retards. If you have so many opinions on how a person should write their blogs, go set up a blog of your own and write whatever the fuck you want on your little puny insignificant blog in aLtErNaTe CaPs, because no one out there's going to give a flying fuck about your shitty little blog. And thus, out of jealousy, spite, and the fact that you trolls are brainless, small-hearted, bigoted dorks without the slightest modicum of human emotion, you decide to troll other people's blogs to 1) gain attention for yourselves and 2) make yourselves feel better about your pathetic lives knowing that you've made someone else feel just as miserable as you are.
Ok back to Xiaxue.
The point is, yes, she can be a vicious bitch. Yes, I (and a lot of other people) don't like what she writes at times. But still, her blog is her blog is her blog. If you're not happy with her, either voice it out on your own blog, or if your fingers are really itchy and you just have to do a virtual-scream at her on her blog or via email, do it in a constructive, polite manner. There is no need to stoop to personal insults.
And yes, you can tell someone off in a nice manner, which is a win-win situation because the other party gets it, and yet it shows that you're a nice big-hearted person who doesn't need to resort to lots of "dumb sluts" and "chee byes" to get your point across.
Let me give you guys an example on how to give constructive criticism without giving insults (or at least the insults are subtle enough to slip past the other party's notice).
For instance, you could write something to Xiaxue saying something like, "XX you are a lousy shit writer and your face is ugly like fuck! Put so much makeup also no use! Your body is stumpy and fat too, how dare you criticise SPG's body? Close down your lousy commercialised blog and go away, you are a disgrace to Singapore!"
[DISCLAIMER: This is a fucking example, an example, ok? I do not really think that way about Xiaxue; I'm the last person on earth who ought to be criticising someone else's looks.]
Look at the above example, which is very similar to loads of comments I've read on Xiaxue's comments thread. Firstly, there is no point in it. Secondly, you're lowering yourself to a level lower than Xiaxue if you write like that. Thirdly, you're either going to hurt her (which is not a good thing; hello, she's also human) or she's just going to laugh at you.
But! But! But! If you write like this:
"Xiaxue, I've noticed of late that your standard of writing seems to have dropped. Is it because you're spending too much time on your columns for TNP and Maxim? As a reader, I'd like to see your entries go back the way they were, because don't forget, it's your readers who made you who you are now. As for the way you criticised SPG, I understand that you may have done it for a laugh, but I'm sure it must have hurt the poor girl. I don't think you'd like it if someone called your body ugly and defaced it, would you? And while we're on the topic, from one female to another, I just have to tell you that your makeup can be excessive at times. But you look beautiful enough au naturel, so don't cake up your face too much."
See the difference in the two? The first one just makes you seem uneducated, uncouth, and plain dumb. The second one at least shows some impartiality, proper judgement, intelligence, and balance. Ta-dah!
In fact, to flame someone in a nice way, you don't even have to write so much. A one-liner will suffice at times. A simple "Gosh, I see you took the wrong medicine this morning" or "Enough, that's way out of line" or "I would feel sorry for you, if only I weren't so infuriated" can get your point across easily.
We are human. We have emotions. We can feel. All right, I know most trolls have about the emotional range of a gnat's ass, so they won't understand other people's feelings, but to the more intelligent ones out there, remember this, will you? We're blogging about our lives, our thoughts, our opinions. If you don't like it, tough, because we're kings/queens of our own blogs. Go insult us on your little blogs, we won't care. Just don't do it on ours. Either that, or flame us nicely. We're always up for a good flame war, provided the person doing the flaming isn't too much of an idiot.
But what am I saying? If I have to devote an entire post to this topic, it just proves that flamers are idiots. Oh well.
The point is - we bloggers are all human. We're not just some robots sitting behind our laptops churning out shit on a regular basis. We have our own insecurities, fears, and weaknesses - just like all you dumb trolls out there. Don't assume that just because you can't see our faces when you read what we write, we're just nonenities or formless entities who won't be affected by your mudslinging.
And don't assume that just because we can't see your faces when you hide anonymously behind your computers, we won't know you. Oh yes we know. We know that you're uglier than we are, you've never been laid, you're a school dropout working as a kopitiam assistant, you have no knowledge of morality and respect, and when you were still in school you were the kid that everyone picked on, that all the guys/girls beat up, and all the guys/girls turned down.
Yeah you trolls are probably going to go, "No that's not true! I'm handsome/pretty, rich, been screwed by David Beckham/Angelina Jolie, am in Harvard/graduated from Cambridge, I'm completely the opposite of what you think I am, ha ha to you!"
The fact is, even if that's what you are, your actions sure don't show it. So we're just going to think of you trolls as uglier than we are, never been laid, a school dropout working as a kopitiam assistant, having no knowledge of morality and respect, and when you were still in school you were the kid that everyone picked on, that all the guys/girls beat up, and all the guys/girls turned down. Ha ha to you too.
Oh, and Lun, I'd like pics of you in your No.4 please, and your ceremonial guard uniform. Just 2 pictures will do. Thank you sweetie, *muacks*!
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I was actually just reading Xiaxue's blog (yes I do occasionally read it), and I was pretty horrified by this particular post of hers where she seemed on the verge of breaking down. I have no doubt that people have been too hard on her. That post really struck a chord in me because for once, it was so honest, so raw, that I couldn't help but actually feel sorry for her.
I'm not saying that what she did about SPG was right, and I don't condone what she did. Even if it was done in the spirit of fun, Xiaxue still ought to have exercised some restraint. But seriously, those people who've been sending her hate comments and hate mail ought to ease up to. I'm not trying to defend Xiaxue, but there comes a point when you just get too sickened by the insults you read; they're enough to turn a child into Adolf Hitler.
The fact is, no one likes to be insulted. I don't particularly like Xiaxue, to be honest, but I completely sympathise with her on her trolls and her flamers. Sometimes I find the comments people leave on her blog freaking amusing, because the amount of stupidity and incoherence that abounds there is enough to make a cockroach feel like a genius.
But then I stop finding it amusing when the mudslinging degenerates into some really really mean insults, or when the flaming moves on to XX's friends or family. I can really understand her pain there. Fine, you know, maybe she asked for it in some cases, and I'm sure she was more or less prepared for an onslaught of flames, but not such a prolonged, vicious, or repetitive onslaught.
I can understand how she feels, because I've been flamed before by dumbass trolls who didn't know a bird's dropping about me, and yet think they know me so well just because they've read maybe 2 sentences on my blog. I've received hate mails from stupid cocksuckers without a single neuron in their skulls who think they can foist their stupid opinions on me and take whatever I write on my blog literally at face value. I've been called everything you can possibly think of from 'obese pig' to 'vulgar slut'. All because? Some morons out there decide that they don't like what I write on my blog and think that God gave them them right to dictate what I should write.
Go and sniff the flowers and wake up, retards. If you have so many opinions on how a person should write their blogs, go set up a blog of your own and write whatever the fuck you want on your little puny insignificant blog in aLtErNaTe CaPs, because no one out there's going to give a flying fuck about your shitty little blog. And thus, out of jealousy, spite, and the fact that you trolls are brainless, small-hearted, bigoted dorks without the slightest modicum of human emotion, you decide to troll other people's blogs to 1) gain attention for yourselves and 2) make yourselves feel better about your pathetic lives knowing that you've made someone else feel just as miserable as you are.
Ok back to Xiaxue.
The point is, yes, she can be a vicious bitch. Yes, I (and a lot of other people) don't like what she writes at times. But still, her blog is her blog is her blog. If you're not happy with her, either voice it out on your own blog, or if your fingers are really itchy and you just have to do a virtual-scream at her on her blog or via email, do it in a constructive, polite manner. There is no need to stoop to personal insults.
And yes, you can tell someone off in a nice manner, which is a win-win situation because the other party gets it, and yet it shows that you're a nice big-hearted person who doesn't need to resort to lots of "dumb sluts" and "chee byes" to get your point across.
Let me give you guys an example on how to give constructive criticism without giving insults (or at least the insults are subtle enough to slip past the other party's notice).
For instance, you could write something to Xiaxue saying something like, "XX you are a lousy shit writer and your face is ugly like fuck! Put so much makeup also no use! Your body is stumpy and fat too, how dare you criticise SPG's body? Close down your lousy commercialised blog and go away, you are a disgrace to Singapore!"
[DISCLAIMER: This is a fucking example, an example, ok? I do not really think that way about Xiaxue; I'm the last person on earth who ought to be criticising someone else's looks.]
Look at the above example, which is very similar to loads of comments I've read on Xiaxue's comments thread. Firstly, there is no point in it. Secondly, you're lowering yourself to a level lower than Xiaxue if you write like that. Thirdly, you're either going to hurt her (which is not a good thing; hello, she's also human) or she's just going to laugh at you.
But! But! But! If you write like this:
"Xiaxue, I've noticed of late that your standard of writing seems to have dropped. Is it because you're spending too much time on your columns for TNP and Maxim? As a reader, I'd like to see your entries go back the way they were, because don't forget, it's your readers who made you who you are now. As for the way you criticised SPG, I understand that you may have done it for a laugh, but I'm sure it must have hurt the poor girl. I don't think you'd like it if someone called your body ugly and defaced it, would you? And while we're on the topic, from one female to another, I just have to tell you that your makeup can be excessive at times. But you look beautiful enough au naturel, so don't cake up your face too much."
See the difference in the two? The first one just makes you seem uneducated, uncouth, and plain dumb. The second one at least shows some impartiality, proper judgement, intelligence, and balance. Ta-dah!
In fact, to flame someone in a nice way, you don't even have to write so much. A one-liner will suffice at times. A simple "Gosh, I see you took the wrong medicine this morning" or "Enough, that's way out of line" or "I would feel sorry for you, if only I weren't so infuriated" can get your point across easily.
We are human. We have emotions. We can feel. All right, I know most trolls have about the emotional range of a gnat's ass, so they won't understand other people's feelings, but to the more intelligent ones out there, remember this, will you? We're blogging about our lives, our thoughts, our opinions. If you don't like it, tough, because we're kings/queens of our own blogs. Go insult us on your little blogs, we won't care. Just don't do it on ours. Either that, or flame us nicely. We're always up for a good flame war, provided the person doing the flaming isn't too much of an idiot.
But what am I saying? If I have to devote an entire post to this topic, it just proves that flamers are idiots. Oh well.
The point is - we bloggers are all human. We're not just some robots sitting behind our laptops churning out shit on a regular basis. We have our own insecurities, fears, and weaknesses - just like all you dumb trolls out there. Don't assume that just because you can't see our faces when you read what we write, we're just nonenities or formless entities who won't be affected by your mudslinging.
And don't assume that just because we can't see your faces when you hide anonymously behind your computers, we won't know you. Oh yes we know. We know that you're uglier than we are, you've never been laid, you're a school dropout working as a kopitiam assistant, you have no knowledge of morality and respect, and when you were still in school you were the kid that everyone picked on, that all the guys/girls beat up, and all the guys/girls turned down.
Yeah you trolls are probably going to go, "No that's not true! I'm handsome/pretty, rich, been screwed by David Beckham/Angelina Jolie, am in Harvard/graduated from Cambridge, I'm completely the opposite of what you think I am, ha ha to you!"
The fact is, even if that's what you are, your actions sure don't show it. So we're just going to think of you trolls as uglier than we are, never been laid, a school dropout working as a kopitiam assistant, having no knowledge of morality and respect, and when you were still in school you were the kid that everyone picked on, that all the guys/girls beat up, and all the guys/girls turned down. Ha ha to you too.













