[MR] The Lurkers Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks (cesspits)

[Terri Morgan]

> All these people saying that they are being criticized
> and embarrassed for reading the Merry Rose by people
> who supposedly don't ought to step back and think
> about this a moment. How do these non MR readers
> know that the MR is, in fact, a cesspit? 

Every one of them that I have talked to has been someone who once enjoyed
being on the Merry Rose, some of them from when it was first founded, and
have left after years of reading messages as rude as the one you posted and
I am replying to. Some, knowing that I had said that I was going to try to
make this a better place, actually re-subscribed after Pennsic and then
un-subscribed again after the thread about child abuse.

> Let's not call these people "People who don't read the MR
> and mock others who do." Let's be honest, here, and call them
> "rude lurking hypocrites." :-DDDD

Name calling? Really? I see your ":-DDDD" - it still reads as an insult. Are
you feeling good with having posted that? Shall I take that comment to those
of my friends who I mentioned and let them know that you called them that?
Tell them that you jumped to a conclusion and then posted it to the Greater
List? Tell me - would you say that to their faces?

> Anyone who wants to openly ridicule someone for their reading
> material really ought to be taken to task for their lack of manners. 

Surely. Yet reading for context is a good skill. "I've been treated to many
a confused and pitying look..." is what I wrote. There was no mention of
mocking or ridicule. Yet there surely was a good dose of that in your
response. Thank you for proving my point.

> And in this case, their dishonesty. ;-)

Or perhaps for jumping to rude conclusions to cover the guilt of being one
of the parties driving people away.


Hrothny