No link? BURIED!

I didn't want to further dignify the forum in question.

I read that thread today and just sat there shaking my head. Even people responding who I know are well into their 20's are so friggin' clueless.

You can't debate with them (to them it's an argument), and they can't see beyond their own beliefs. The whole conspiracy theory and the fact some of these people actually think you have such a love relationship with Cedar Fair and Kinzel just crack me up.

It's even more amazing that they really think you >care enough about their drivel as to honor them by hating them. People like that don't realize some of us have real lives, even the illustrious webmaster because, as you said, their entire lives are wrapped up in the internet.

But, I'm finding the entire internet is filled with people like that. I was on a MUCK for 14 years and played an old grumpy panther that carried a cane used to thwap people who did a global *hug*. I'd had the automatic response set up for 12 of those 14 years with no problems. Then one day a wiz asked me to remove the response because it was "too violent to people who were only trying to be friendly". I killed off the character and haven't been back.

The scary part is many of these people are like this off the internet as well.

I've been accused of not being able to see beyond my own beliefs either. But I'd like to think I live in the realm of the plausible and reality.

I say it all the time that people read/see what they want to. How many times have I said Kinzel is a micromanager who is way overdue for retirement? I've said the company failed big time. I guess that's still not as exciting as theorizing conspiracies.

More than anything, I'm wondering when "disagreement" suddenly became "telling someone else what to think" - because that's a new line of hate towards you and CB in general that baffles me.

There was a nice period of tranquility, but the "I hate Jeff" and "I hate CB" people seem to be coming out of the woodwork again questioning the way the site is run and making the sarcastic comments.

Sigh. I feel for you.

We are loved in Belgium. Tomorrow, we rock Portland!

Wait...you're the mean Jeff that runs CoasterBuzz? Holy shit!

I'm outta here. You sux0r!11!!!

Jeff and I have always seemed to play Good Cop / Bad Cop on PointBuzz, so this is new territory for me.

I don't make debates personal, but there are apparently some who do. That is regrettable. Most of the name calling is typical Internet muck, but there are a few who seem unable to get past some self-generated grudge. I honestly feel bad for them.

I'm reminded of one example of that. There was a PointBuzz user who was removed for a very inappropriate personal attack on another member (laughably, he/she was convinced it was because we disagreed with him/her - that myth gets really old). Over the next month, at least three additional PointBuzz accounts were created to do nothing more than troll - third grade stuff, from an adult, no less. If that wasn't bad enough, other message boards were treated to opinions on PointBuzz ad nauseam. One community finally got tired of hearing "PointBuzz" come up in completely unrelated discussions and called the user out on it. Naturally, it lead to *that* board being labeled by this person as a bunch of jerks as well. Isn't it fun?

Oddly, this all turns out to be a somewhat interesting observation on human interaction. I'm sure there's at least a chapter about it in some psychology textbook.

Stop picking on me