BUSTED! (Crossposted to badmakeup)

[gurdymonkey]

This is why I do not approve of snark:

Dear members of badmakeup (I hesitate to address you as ladies and gentlemen given the nature of this forum):

It might interest you to know that trolling the internet just so you can make fun of people and feel superior is not as "safe" as you think it is.

One of you linked to a photo on my personal website and left big muddy footprints in your wake. I happen to actually check my site statistics periodically to protect myself from spam and phishing. And looky what I found:
http://community.livejournal.com/badmakeup/286927.html

Had you bothered to link to the text accompanying the picture, you would have also discovered why I was made up in that manner and that I had been wearing 70 yards of silk and full make-up for at least five hours in a rather warm hotel convention center when that picture was taken. I invite you to try spending several hours unable to so much as scratch your nose or wipe the sweat from your face some time and see how daisy fresh you look at the end of it.

If you actually care, which of course, you probably don't, you can read more at http://www.wodefordhall.com/karaginumo.htm

I'm not even going to bother trying to decipher what the "She has gotten better since this photo" comment refers to.

You've gotten your jollies at my expense. I really don't care what you think because you are petty, small-minded, honorless cowards who are not worth my time. I only write to inform you that someday you are really going to hurt or piss someone off. There are no actions without consequences. 

Apologies - if any of you possess something resembling a conscience - may be directed to me via my profile. Frankly, I expect none. I have done what I set out to do and herewith unsubscribe from this journal. I'm going to go sterilize my keyboard.

Thank you for your consideration.

EDIT: Despite my unsubscribing immediately after posting, LJ kindly forwarded nearly 100 messages from these People With No Lives. It is clear from the few I actually bothered to open that they Do Not Get It. It is obvious they do not understand that one day what their "hobby" might do to someone with more fragile self esteem and coping issues. 

The world is full of judgemental assholes. Do yourself a favor. Don't be one of 'em.

Comments

[eleryth.livejournal.com]

I despise communities like that. There's many for cosplay, and they get really mean sometimes.

The post in which you were discussed is locked, I'm guessing, as when I click it, it's no longer there and I don't have access to see it. Here's hoping there's some moderating or something going on...but perhaps the main poster figured that locking it was a way to "make it go away" and not deal with people who aren't part of that community, which is even more cowardly, IMHO.

I thought you looked great in all your Heian outfits.

[sasha-khan.livejournal.com]

The entry is now f-locked (I could see it when I briefly joined) but I saw no reply from you.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

The entry was f-locked when I hunted it down in the first place - the poster was stupid enough to hotlink directly to my photo. I sent my message as a separate post.

Hm. Some Helpful Harry f-locked my post too because I certainly did not. After all, I'm not the one who has anything to hide.

Evidently there IS some sort of moderator activity. Evidently one of their list rules is NOT to hotlink because it was mentioned in one of the responses I did bother to read before I got bored. And I admit I got bored after the first dozen.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

Another rule is not to snark community members, so had you remained a member the guy could have been totally busted on that front too. I'm not recommending it, just sayin'.

[bebemochi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's apparently moderated. Your post is now tagged with "drama llama" and "this idiot was banned" which I doubt you did to your own entry. ;)

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

That's rich, since *I* unsubscribed after posting and have deleted pretty much all the crap that's hit my inbox from anyone I don't recognize from my friend's list.

It's OK to mock people, but I'M the badly behaved one.

[bebemochi.livejournal.com]

Haha, kind of like, "I quit!" "No, you're fired!"

Apparently the mods are pretty strict. I clicked on the banned tag, and they ban people for posting more than a certain number of pictures. They probably just banned you as a matter of course.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

I really hate snark communities. They feed off themselves, and it just degenerates into squalor. I have enough trouble making the "honey, honey, didn't your mama teach you any better than that" voice in my head -- I sure don't want to go somewhere that's going to encourage it!

*sheesh*