Amy McDaniel—
CONTEST! My favorite line in Lost is when Sawyer walks up to Jack and Juliet mid-intense-conversation and says to them, “What yall doing, arguing about who’s your favorite Other?” In the spirit of that and mean, who is your favorite HTMLGiant troll, past or present? deadgod? MFBomb? mimi? Christopher Higgs? Mather Schneider? phmadore? What would your grandfather say if he met the troll? Winner gets to direct a bromantic comedy with the troll and any 3 of our contributors or frequent non-troll commenters.
The post isn’t interesting enough for me to “see the edit,” though I appreciate the love. It is, however, that you label me a troll when most of my issues are with admin trolls. Bully.
*It is, however, interesting…
I third ZZZIP.
Now that he’s been mentioned again, Mather will have a new reason to post on Trick With a Knife!
See! It’s not dead!
maybe i should have misspelled it “Snider” so it wouldn’t show up on his google alerts. though probably he has “mather” and “schmather” alerts too
Oh, wow, I’m flattered, Ms. Sycophant has called me out!
See edit. How could I keep you in there when you address me with an unassuming, marital-status-neutral title? Though I have to say, conservative as I am, I really prefer MISS Sycophant.
The post isn’t interesting enough for me to “see the edit,” though I appreciate the love. It is, however, that you label me a troll when most of my issues are with admin trolls. Bully.
*It is, however, interesting…
is ZZZIPP a troll? I’ve never thought of him (it, the photon) as a troll, but I’ve heard him (it, the photon) referred to as a troll. ZZZIPP is my favorite.
could someone define what being a “troll” is?
do you feel left out?
Depends–would you like the actual definition, or the HTMLGiant definition?
why the fuck would i feel left out? i don’t belong with any of these people, including you. i am here as a representative of JEREME DEAN.
i was asking a genuine question. i don’t have any reference to what being a troll precisely is.
the term is often used to censor any dissenting or nonconformist voice.
so i was just curious.
do you feel left out amy?
both i guess.
can i nominate roxane gay or would that be too mean?
Oh, well you answered your question in the above post when you brought up censorship, at least for the HTMLGiant version.
The real world version is just someone who likes to stir shit up for the sake of stirring shit up. For instance, when Blake Butler takes cheap shots at writers who are less successful than him and mocks them with those, “shut up and get over it” type posts, that’s trolling.
I second ZZZIP, a relatively benign and welcome troll.
i’m just busting your chops, jereme. i thought we were cool like that. but to answer your question, troll is hard to define i guess. i’m using the word here to poke fun at commenters who, yes, sometimes dissent with me, but i’m not censoring them. censoring is silencing, not name-calling. i intentionally named a range of people to negate any possible sense that i was really calling any individual a troll. but it’s mean week. chill out.
i love roxane but this shit was funny
I would like to some clarification on the classification as well. I also now feel compelled to detail, in a separate post at Trick with a Knife, the chain of events which ever brought me to this particular internet asshole. It was shitting on me from the very first, which is a provable fact.Now, here is the question: am I troll because I troll the comment sections for interesting things to either bitch about, comment upon, or expand? Or is it because I charged you six pounds of gold that night I drove you to Blake Butler’s house all tanked on vodka and wanting to fuck. I swear I warned you that he wasn’t into guys, and I was only joking when I asked you to rub my belly button gem.
amy, we are cool like that. i wasn’t being a dick. here, maybe the tone will be easier with this one:
shit girl, why you trying to group me with these lame dick motherfuckers? none of these petty humans have dragon swagger like me.
serizzlee though, what’s all this shit bout being a binary troll?
is it some sort of feminine hygiene product or something?
do i feel left out?
lol
sugarbird, do you?
<3
yall don’t even know what a troll is.
if anyones a troll, it’s jereme dean.
let’s all kiss
and i used to be a contributor!
lame-y mcspaniel = troll hag
i think i understand why you would condemn blake as a troll.
but he’s not attacking writers, he’s attacking their collective ideology. from what i read, it appears you are taking umbrage with blake himself rather than what he’s conveying?
I third ZZZIP.
This post: 6.7/10. Needs more troll.
“Justin RM”: +/- 0. Needs testicle; chipmunk starter-kit recommended.
Why are you no longer a contributor?
where is zippy these days? he/she have a kid or something?
How come I’m on your troll list, Amy?
Strike that query, Amy. We’ll see about this… :)
she’s just trollin
She already explained the composition of her “list” in her exchange with JEREME DEAN, princess.
Well, I don’t think any of this stuff is important enough to use words like “condemn,” but posting snarky, “get over it”-type comments to writers who are not as successful as him seems more self-serving than an honest attack on any kind “of collective ideology.”
What’s even more ironic is the fact that he’s mainly successful because of this site, the same that he sometimes uses to tell other writers to “get over it” when they vent about a rejection.
I like ZZZIP, and I like deadgod, too, I don’t think of either of them as trolls.
i was never a contributor…
i fucked another contributor at awp and it got weird.
ha ha, nice
Who was it, Jereme?
i can understand why you would get a little miffed. blake is arrogant sometimes. i don’t think that makes him a piece of shit or anything.
why do you think his messages are directed only at writers less successful? i don’t see that distinction in his posts.
this site is not the main reason why he’s successful. if you believe that, you haven’t known (about) blake for very long. has this site helped him? absolutely. it has also helped others, too.
blake has spent equal time promoting both himself and literature in the 4 years i have interacted with him. it is almost impossible to find writer human beings like him.
i think you should give him a break. maybe?
plus i know for a fact he has a giant pussy. the guy needs to vent every now and then. he is human despite his best efforts.
MADE A PROMISE NOT TO TELL
ask me when i’m drunk and/or high
Amy, just in case you didn’t get the message: http://frsh.in/fu
Swear that “eff eu” was randomized.
I love “dragon swagger.”
You don’t see that distinction? Dean, come on now. I’ve never considered you less than completely intellectually honest, even if I think many of the things you believe are flawed and porous, and so I really urge you to reconsider that. Has Butler attacked a single more-successful writer who is alive, and has he done so with the same vigor he has used in put-downs directed at myself and other High School Graduates?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qthf3IOYNzg
Also, I present Jereme Dean as the standard of misogyny, and ask that he be consulted prior to any further defamation of my character in that vein.
* Based on the “has a giant pussy” statement in this post alone.
Gena Mowish.
successful successful successful
you can because you spelled my name correctly.
This sounds strange coming from you, Amy. You once told me how you didn’t like the word troll, and yet you’re using it for this post. I realize it’s “Mean Week,” but um… yeah, I dunno. I don’t really get what this is all about either. Maybe I need more sleep (or more drink).
what’s a little intercourse between friends
i was never a contributor…
I think ZZZZIIIPP hates the redesign.
Anybody remember Vin Diesel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
social awkwardness = control over others’ comfort
don’t be afraid of your superpowers, tribute band
Higgs. Just because I like him and his writing.
i am the standard of nothing. i don’t really care a kid’s twat what people label me as. i’ll be any jesus they need.
finger pointing at someone doesn’t mitigate your fault(s). your conduct doesn’t magically change.
when are you going to start taking responsibility for yourself? man the fuck up.
“You don’t see that distinction? Dean, come on now. I’ve never considered you less than completely intellectually honest, even if I think many of the things you believe are flawed and porous, and so I really urge you to reconsider that. Has Butler attacked a single more-successful writer who is alive, and has he done so with the same vigor he has used in put-downs directed at myself and other High School Graduates?”
huh? what put-downs and insults? are you confusing when he RESPONDS to something you’ve done or said?
that’s on you.
you keep bitching and complaining about the scene and your torturous exclusion from it.
its people like you who BUILD a scene. if blake is wearing a crown its because of your infrastructure. you are just as guilty as any sycophant.
the guy hasn’t done shit but promote indie literature & write. stop whining, WRITE and make your own scene.
i mean if that dickdance is your crescendo, do it.