Scandal Scandal Balls on Fire!
If you've been following the blogging scene lately, and haven't been on the planet X863-4B, you'd know about this latest "scandal" to rock the blogosphere.
Or, if you've been tripping on acid and HAVE been on the planet X863-4B, read this. And this. And if you're free follow the trackbacks as well.
All right? Back on Earth now? Good.
You know, I always thought the Bandung Vader (as Jaywalk calls her) wasn't that bad - more misunderstood than anything else. Controversial, certainly, but colourful. Bitchy, yes, but hello, I'm a woman too, I understand. Dumb, occasionally, but let's overlook it: who hasn't done stupid things before?
This, however, is way beyond the natural realms of stupidity.
First, you set up a hate site aimed at someone else. Granted, Blinkymummy started it, but hey, if you'd acted with dignity you'd have come out of it looking great and she'd be the idiot hurling insults at you, you sweet young thing, and end up with egg on her face. No, you had to go and insult someone's labia, didn't you? Now guess what? She's the victim and you're the evil witch.
Then, you used someone else's identity. Not the smartest thing to do, not to mention a rather despicable thing. In the age of Technorati, how hard is it to find someone who's using your Internet identity? And Xialanxue isn't some obscure pee sai blogger, he/she's fairly well-known. It would have been easy for him/her to find out, by him/herself or via one of his/her readers.
Then (hold your breath for the punch line fellows) you blog on your own blog without remembering to change your display name, so Bloglines displays for all the world to see that YOU are Xialanxue blogging on Bandung Vader's site! That is probably the biggest example of idiocy I've seen since the millennium began!
After you get caught, you start posting on your hate site denying that you are the Bandung Vader, and give lame excuses like "This site was private... never meant to be a hate site... la la la". Yeah, I'm fucking damn sure that a blog put up on the very public domain of the Internet and swearing at Blinkymummy and examining the minutest details of what her labia might be like attached to cloths is totally a private non-hate site, yes sirree.
To cap things off, you compromise the integrity and reputation of Tomorrow, a site not owned by you, not belonging to you, and a site that exists to bring the Singapore blogosphere to bloggers, non-bloggers, and non-Singaporeans alike by frantically deleting trackbacks to cover your ass.
On one hand, you deny you did anything wrong, on the other, you are furiously covering your tracks and loopholes. That's not exactly the behaviour of an innocent victim.
What for, my good Bandung Vader? What the fuck for? It's too late, too late for any cover-ups, any airbrushing, any photoshopping, you get it or not?
If there's one thing I've learned in 23 years, it's that when you do something wrong and you get caught, trying to cover up only makes it worse.
Stand up and bravely say, "I was wrong" and the world will have at least a shred of respect left for you, because you at least tried to remedy matters by doing a decent thing.
As for the other two alleged authors of the hate site, one has come out and denied any involvement, while the other - who incidentally was the one who penned the (lousy) poem dedicated to the object of their abuse - is still silent. We will never know the true extent of their involvement, I guess.
But I feel it is a tad unfair that while the Bandung Vader is getting all the flak, these other alleged authors are quietly going about their own business and avoiding the shitstorm.
What the fuck? Since when did friendship entail not sticking up for your friend in trouble, especially when she's taking the trouble for you as well?
As for Tomorrow, I am sorely disappointed. The other editors are either not bothered (which they should be because it concerns their site), or are too afraid to speak up, to which I say: Hello! We're speaking about a 21-year-old doing wrong things, shooting the site's reputation to hell, deleting trackbacks to prevent the news from spreading - what should be holding you back? I'm not trying to tar all with the same brush, but hey, there must be like 8 or 10 editors there, and only Agagooga's trying to do something proper?
Thank God for Agagooga, at least there is some modicum of editorial integrity left intact.
Or, if you've been tripping on acid and HAVE been on the planet X863-4B, read this. And this. And if you're free follow the trackbacks as well.
All right? Back on Earth now? Good.
You know, I always thought the Bandung Vader (as Jaywalk calls her) wasn't that bad - more misunderstood than anything else. Controversial, certainly, but colourful. Bitchy, yes, but hello, I'm a woman too, I understand. Dumb, occasionally, but let's overlook it: who hasn't done stupid things before?
This, however, is way beyond the natural realms of stupidity.
First, you set up a hate site aimed at someone else. Granted, Blinkymummy started it, but hey, if you'd acted with dignity you'd have come out of it looking great and she'd be the idiot hurling insults at you, you sweet young thing, and end up with egg on her face. No, you had to go and insult someone's labia, didn't you? Now guess what? She's the victim and you're the evil witch.
Then, you used someone else's identity. Not the smartest thing to do, not to mention a rather despicable thing. In the age of Technorati, how hard is it to find someone who's using your Internet identity? And Xialanxue isn't some obscure pee sai blogger, he/she's fairly well-known. It would have been easy for him/her to find out, by him/herself or via one of his/her readers.
Then (hold your breath for the punch line fellows) you blog on your own blog without remembering to change your display name, so Bloglines displays for all the world to see that YOU are Xialanxue blogging on Bandung Vader's site! That is probably the biggest example of idiocy I've seen since the millennium began!
After you get caught, you start posting on your hate site denying that you are the Bandung Vader, and give lame excuses like "This site was private... never meant to be a hate site... la la la". Yeah, I'm fucking damn sure that a blog put up on the very public domain of the Internet and swearing at Blinkymummy and examining the minutest details of what her labia might be like attached to cloths is totally a private non-hate site, yes sirree.
To cap things off, you compromise the integrity and reputation of Tomorrow, a site not owned by you, not belonging to you, and a site that exists to bring the Singapore blogosphere to bloggers, non-bloggers, and non-Singaporeans alike by frantically deleting trackbacks to cover your ass.
On one hand, you deny you did anything wrong, on the other, you are furiously covering your tracks and loopholes. That's not exactly the behaviour of an innocent victim.
What for, my good Bandung Vader? What the fuck for? It's too late, too late for any cover-ups, any airbrushing, any photoshopping, you get it or not?
If there's one thing I've learned in 23 years, it's that when you do something wrong and you get caught, trying to cover up only makes it worse.
Stand up and bravely say, "I was wrong" and the world will have at least a shred of respect left for you, because you at least tried to remedy matters by doing a decent thing.
As for the other two alleged authors of the hate site, one has come out and denied any involvement, while the other - who incidentally was the one who penned the (lousy) poem dedicated to the object of their abuse - is still silent. We will never know the true extent of their involvement, I guess.
But I feel it is a tad unfair that while the Bandung Vader is getting all the flak, these other alleged authors are quietly going about their own business and avoiding the shitstorm.
What the fuck? Since when did friendship entail not sticking up for your friend in trouble, especially when she's taking the trouble for you as well?
As for Tomorrow, I am sorely disappointed. The other editors are either not bothered (which they should be because it concerns their site), or are too afraid to speak up, to which I say: Hello! We're speaking about a 21-year-old doing wrong things, shooting the site's reputation to hell, deleting trackbacks to prevent the news from spreading - what should be holding you back? I'm not trying to tar all with the same brush, but hey, there must be like 8 or 10 editors there, and only Agagooga's trying to do something proper?
Thank God for Agagooga, at least there is some modicum of editorial integrity left intact.
posted by Sheena @ 2:19 AM
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