Tag: Chuang Shyue Chou = Asshole

Rant – Of wusses and douchebags

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Not too long ago, I was accused by someone of finding every little opportunity to bash the gahmen or criticise its policies because of what he called my ‘intense hatred of the government gahmen’. It doesn’t matter that I have been quite a big fan of the ERP, and at times I have presented the viewpoint of the gahmen after I receive a better understanding of the policies. While I do not deny I can be rather vehement in my anti-gahmen stand, that doesn’t mean I allow that to cloud my decision all the time.

Ironically, the accusation was thrown in my face after I had in fact agreed with this person and put up my own opinion in support. I could only speculate why my comment upset him. He probably thinks only he had the proper justifications or he had better reasons to do so. If not, he must have thought that his way of bashing the gahmen was the only acceptable way. Another friend suggested that the person was upset because he had considered his comment to be perfect, and my ‘greatest sin’ was for adding on and ‘marring his perfect comment’. Whatever the case is, I took this as a grave insult, as it suggests that I am insane and incapable of reasoning as far as the gahmen is concerned. That’s not mentioning that when I started to defend myself, this person waved it off with a comment of ‘whatever’.

What a wussy!

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Next, it amuses me that a 40-over year-old someone was denouncing another person as ‘self-righteous, antagonistic, extreme and hypocritical’ on his blog after he ‘visited his blog and the forum he was running’

Since I am the only person who runs both a blog and a forum, and we once disagreed strongly on how to run my forum, I take this accusation personally. As far as I am concerned, he is apparently still bitter over the fact he was not allowed a free reign on my forum almost four years ago. The fact is he repeatedly threatened me with leaving the forum if not allowed to do things his way. Though I did not object to him creating more than one account, he ultimately created a fake account with a fake email address that caused some concern with the business owner of the hosting server. After she advised me to delete the fake account, I announced publicly on the forum and asked to be informed if anyone wants to create such accounts in the future. He then confronted me on MSN Messenger and again threatened to leave. I decided I had enough of his childish tantrums and simply reply with these two words: Go ahead.

It probably never occurred to this self-centered sorry excuse of a man that there’s only so much emo shit I can take from a bachelor in his late 30s (then!) like him. I suspected he was shocked and angered because I did absolutely nothing to try and pacify him. I simply left him with no choice but to make good his threat. As far as I am concerned, whether he stayed or not would be a great loss of face to him.

Left he did, and the actions he took thereafter simply convinced me that I have no reasons to remain acquainted with such a person. I have been on the receiving end of his tantrums more than once whenever I disagreed with him. That’s when I wasn’t even rude or being an ass to begin with! I simply wasn’t even allow to express a different opinion or to stand firm on my disagreement. His sudden mood swings in a cordial conversation shocks me, as it is even more intense than those I have seen among my female friends or colleagues under pressure. Perhaps a serious hormonal imbalance has caused this oddly feminine behavior… and might probably even hint why my recent posts upset him.

He apparently still behaved just like I first knew him almost two decades ago. I am convince I made the right choice to cease all communications with this douchebag and blocked him on Facebook right after I joined. He has the honor or being the first to be blocked on Facebook and the only person blocked for the longest time compared to the rest in that ‘roll of (dis)honor’

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Lothlorien: The beginning of the End?

Excerpts from Chuang Shyue Chou’s blog post:

I have left the Lothlorien Forum for good. I can’t agree with the tyrannical policies and double standards there. Good riddance.

From the last looks of it, the place is descending into some form of an anti-government forum with political agitation and more. Not far from what you see on the newsgroup soc.culture.singapore anyway. Common fare. If you enjoy vehement anti-government fare, anti-PAP tirades, this may just be the place for you.

Too bad that the original favour of the Lothlorien BBS is lost.

Interesting.

I ought to go ask the Great Magus and Emperor Loh just what was the original favour of the Lothlorien BBS. Whatever I had to say in reply to that is (for those who haven’t already noticed), I ain’t Marc Tan – the original sysop and founder of the BBS, and this group of people didn’t just include the original Lothy people. That’s not mentioning a lot of old Lothy people are out of contact and they didn’t bother to join anyway. It’s clearly a different setting with different people at a different time! So quit lamenting about it as if it’s some forlorn dream already!

I also wondered if anyone alone qualifies to define what that favour is. If some people thinks he has an absolute right to rampage free on the forum, and repeatedly issued the threat of ‘leaving the forum’ to that end, I simply felt that allowing this person to make good his threats would be better than subjecting myself to them every few days.

It was not an easy decision to make since I do appreciate all the effort given on his behalf to make the forum a success. I didn’t like the outcome of it at all. However, he isn’t the only person who is allowed to get angry and I definitely didn’t need his approval on what level of moderation is needed in the forum. Call it tyranny and double standards, because all I did was simply telling him to ‘go ahead’ with his threat. [Note: While I did already agree to the creation of multiple IDs originally, I at least expected to have prior notifications of their creation. I simply did not expect anyone to just threaten me with leaving when I expressed a certain level of displeasure for not being informed. Maybe that’s what ‘double standards’ is all about!]

As to to the charge of ‘tyrannical policies and double standards’, my reply to that charge – addressed to the forum – can be seen at the forum posting here. That should also give everyone more or less a brief idea on what I meant by ‘rampage free on the forum’.

As to the comment ‘the place is descending into some form of an anti-government forum with political agitation and more’, I must ask whether a person who said in MSN chat that he has the least of interest in local issues – if not the entire ‘Mordor’ section – and avowed not to post anything there is actually qualified to make such a comment.

As a matter of fact, there are almost few active posters on Lothy now and on last count only 3 people – including I – were the most active posters in the ‘Mordor’ section. 3 person out of 37 registered members of Lothy, and 3 people out hundred of thousands of Singapore Internet users out there – with just a few posts in ‘Mordor’ and those in the ‘Tenth Pit’ section, out of 700 over postings – and the forum is labelled as comparable to soc.culture.singapore or turning into a cesspool similar to it.

I must say I am quite flattered that just a mere 3 posters are capable of helping this incarnation Lothy gain the notoriety of soc.culture.singapore.

Perhaps it’s the beginning of the end to this incarnation of Lothy once again… but no one was really in favour of its survival when it went came online anyway.