Apparently I have pissed off the BMOC of blogdom. He has responded to my earlier post in the comments section of his blog. Apparently even though I am "an egotistical moron who has convinced himself that you are somehow above the vicious, bloody fray of the rabble. ", Jeff feels the need to respond to me. Rather than respond on my blog in the comments section of the post he refers to, he responds on his blog, of which he has apparently banned me. In my opinion, that is simply rude.
Jeff, I'm not worthy. Seriously, I'm not. I don't know why you felt the need to come to my blog and attempt to insult me, or why you felt the need to respond to my post on your blog, but you did. Maybe I hit too close to home. Understand this: I will not be bullied. I will never be as popular as you, and probably not as good a writer. But I don't give a shit. My opinions are just as valid as yours, and I will express them.
I was going to post my response to your comment that I sent to you by e-mail, but have decided not to. Feel free to post them on your blog if you wish, but frankly I don't expect you to.
Good luck with your writing, and I sincerely hope your medical condition improves. Believe it or not, it was never personal for me until you made it so.
Update (1/17/06) I just wish to point out that my blogroll contains members of Pajamas Media and bloggers who have criticized PJM.
Update II (1/21/06) Apparently I am not the only one who finds the whole thing high schoolish.
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OK. Thank you for at least showing me the courtesy to respond on my blog.
1) As I already told you in at least one (and I believe two) e-mail(s), I posted the comment the second time because I believed it did not post the first time. I have no experience with people deleting non-profane comments, especially without making note of the fact that a comment was deleted. Do you really believe attempting to post a second time deserves the response you gave me?
2) When I made the comment about things getting high schoolish, I was responding to things everybody had an equal knowledge of, comments made by you and others all over the blogosphere. My comment was directed at the tone and nature of those comments, not at any underlying truth to any allegations made in them. The comment also was quite clearly aimed at both sides of the argument. However, as I have already told you, you have yet to point out a single factual inaccuracy I have made.
3) You state that your putpose of deleting comments was to keep a blog feud from escalating, and then you come to my blog and make a comment you had to know was sure to start a new one.
4) I don't hate you, and don't want to be identified with those who do. I simply believe that I have as much right as you to state my opinion. You have every right to ban me, and delete my comments. If you had simply sent me an email, or left my name and the message "comment deleted", I would have never attempted to repost my comment. If you will examine my previous posts on your site, you will see I always behaved appropriately.
5) The only public comment I have made about your character is that I thought some of your posts were high schoolish. If that is traumatic for you, you are going to go through life as a basket case. I have made no reference to your medical condition beyond wishing you well.
6) I will admit I made two assumptions you would probably consider mistakes. A) I thought my comment that everyone was behaving high schoolish was valid, appropriate, and far from trollish. B) I assumed the reason why my comment didn't show was that I had made a mistake, rather than realizing that you had deleted it.
7) I would appreciate you lifting your ban, because as I have stated, I do enjoy your writing and I did enjoy contributing to your site. I believe all of this was sadly unnecessary.
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