Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Troll Protection

I am generally friendly to people who read my blogs and who contact me via email. But sometimes there are people on the Internet (as in real life) who are jackasses, and I won't waste my time with this sort. Nor will I give them access to certain more personal writings. Thus, if there is a blog of mine that you used to read but you now find is in private mode, don't take it personally. You can email me using the address in my profile and I will probably give you permission to access the blog. Unless you are the troll that necessitated me making it private in the first place, in which case, go fuck yourself. I realize that having put myself in the public eye that I have to put up with a certain amount of crap that I wouldn't otherwise bother myself with, but I will not tolerate abuse. Nobody else should either. Known trolls will be ignored, whether or not their comments are offensive initially. Let's just say that in my long life on this rock, I have learned not to let vampires into my house.

4 comments:

Nessa said...

Some people are so very toxic and must be avoided.

Lily Strange said...

Nessa,
So true, and it took me a long time to learn that I didn't have to be polite to people who were being abusive to me. Often the trolls will try to pull the "free speech" card. These days I just laugh. This ain't a democracy, it's a feckin' monarchy, and I am the Queen Bee here.
We all deserve to be Queen (or King) of our own domain. :-)

masterymistery said...

hear hear. I'm also totally over getting spam comments to my blog posts --- a tactic which seems to be on the increase

Lily Strange said...

Yeah, those spam comments seem to come in cycles. We go without them for a while, then some other software blog-blasting program is released, and newbies who don't realize how obnoxious the spam comments are release a bunch of them in the hopes of getting people to read their blogs. It doesn't work and in fact has the opposite affect of what they're trying to achieve. I hate these things and the people that create them should be bitch-slapped with a rotten codfish.