The E-peen

Recently, I received a message in my in-box. It was from someone who had responded to my then incorrectly spelled "Add Free" post. Now, it is the incorrect word versus an truly incorrect spelling. It was the only error in the entire post, and it was only once. The response was a flame.

This brings me to another Internet spawned rant. It's something called the "e-peen". He decided to flame an entire post, based off one letter, without even commenting on the post itself. This is just unnecessary. The shield of being anonymous granted by being on the Internet is a double edged sword. While on one side of the blade, it allows people to express their views on certain subjects, much like I do, it also allows people like him to freely be nothing short of assholes.

Now, some people are just simply in of themselves dysfunction in a real life social situation. I would wager money that he is one of those people, but I could of course be wrong. Much of what I say here is likely to be nothing but an opinion.

I believe 100% in keeping the Internet uncensored, so I won't delete his response. But that does not mean I won't respond. I sit here transparently responding to an immature post by some person who gets his rocks off on the Internet by flaming people who are simply trying to express a honest opinion without attacking another individual

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Fuck you good sir. Take the panties out of your pussy and learn to respond to a simple typo with a mature, thought out, response. Not a flame.

Admittedly, this is a flame response somewhat. However, this can be applied to the many people who do this on the Internet. I added one letter to the entire post, and he shot off. Why? I don't know. I didn't ask for grammar or spelling Nazis to visit my blog. Nor do I wish it upon anyone else.

The lesson is to at least be kind to those you do not know. Your friends, something like what he did would be teasing and maybe funny. But would you go up to someone you don't know and kick them in the balls and not expect to have him kill you? No. Not that I condone ball-kicking, but you can get away with it in real life with your friends if you can calm then down enough, then it's just funny.

That's my opinion. 'Nuff said.

--The Blogging Gerbil
AKA Sean