All things in Moderation
I’ve been horribly negligent with my blog, but with good reason.
I’ve been playing an online game since 2003 called “NationStates“. There isn’t much too it. The main website allows for you to create a nation or several if one so desires. In my case, I created a nation called Kryozerkia. Each day your nation can get up to 2 issues to make a ruling on. One can dismiss it or pick one of the often insane options that are available.
The game has a forum as well. The forum has many people who often can’t play nice together, so that’s where the moderators come in. There are mods who are there to overlord the forum and game then there’s me, (I have snazzy moderator powers!) who has enough power to only overlord the forum, but it’s fun enough on its own.
If people just go along, there would be no need for mods on the NS forums… sadly, some people don’t get along. The anonymity of the internet lets people say and post incredibly, extreme asinine shit they probably wouldn’t say or do in real life (though that does remain doubtful since in my pre-mod days I did post really stupid shit that I really did do or say… or for that matter believe). Some of which is designed solely to create a ruckus and rouse the rabble – we call the people who thrive on this: trolls.
Fortunately, trolls don’t last long; at least the highly controversial and highly flammable ones don’t. The ones that do have managed to not trample on too many toes… and the rest of the people are amusing in their own way, even if I don’t agree with most of what the people write.
Stumble It!
January 12th, 2009 at 11:57 am
So in other words… “Dear internet, my dog ate my blogwork. Wah wah wah, QQQ. Sincerely yours, little Johnny no-blog.”
Is that the long and the short of it?
January 12th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
No, more like:
“Dear internet, I like this girl but she totally like won’t look at me; I’m such a loser! Help me get a girl… wah wah wah, QQQ, sincerely, Johnny E. McWhinesalot”