Anonymous and ignorant
"Use Grammarly's grammar check because no one like to be ignorant and anonymous."
It might feel cool, but it blows.In the arid southwest, talking about conspiracies is an every day deal. Floridians do the same thing, but with the weather. In the dustbowl of Arizona, people are way, way, way, way into thinking the government, the neighbors, the police, and the aliens are up to no good. Like smoking cigarettes and doing bath salts, toking the conspiracy pipe is super-addictive. If you don't believe they're out to put you in internment camps, then you're ignorant, just like all the other fools. You have to wise up, brother. If you do believe it, then you're peeking through your curtains, terrified, armed and afraid. Either way, those who peddle their conspiracy theories, who make cash from it, have you by the throat.
And conspiracies are not something people keep to themselves. But they can hash out their fears anonymously. Everything from chemtrails to alien abductions (after all, why haven't they found the Malaysian plane? What aren't they telling us?) are thrown out anonymously on the lovely World Wide Web, just not with any style, not with panache, and not with much integrity. I thought I would add in the latter as most don't leave their real names when commenting.
There are plenty of reasons to be anonymous, Anonymous says. They might fear retaliation, but felt the thoughts needed to be written anyway - after all, there's no chance someone else already said it better years ago. They might actually like their online name better than their real one. For those who use “Go-Bot” as a handle that would be true, but it isn't for everyone else. Some might use it because they don't want others to think, albeit a little late, that they're stupid.
Hiding your identity serves as a suit of armor. More and more, anonymous posters hide their true names, not out of retaliatory apprehensions, but because it allows them to be dicks. They crank the vitriol to dizzying proportions and troll around like zombies on PMS.
While the tide seems to be shifting, with the problem gaining more and more attention, such as the one-woman war that novelist Anne Rice is waging against anonymous reviewers - those who seem hell bent on ruining particular authors and not the ones who pen thoughtful, honest reviews.
Anonymous reviewers and commenters, however, should learn one important rule. If they're hoping to be read, to be taken seriously (even just a little) they should learn to spell, and run a grammar check once in a while. It's hard to swallow a conspiracy when “NRAlvr” spells tomorrow with one r. How is that even possible in this age of auto correct failures? It's also hard to think my life will improve through meditation and yoga when the person telling me that can't spell celery without using an s.
I won't even mention the grammar mistakes, as I'm no better really, or the word “lol,” even though I really, totally, fully despise it. But at least my mistakes have my real name on it. Of course that's only because Go-Bot is taken.
It might feel cool, but it blows.In the arid southwest, talking about conspiracies is an every day deal. Floridians do the same thing, but with the weather. In the dustbowl of Arizona, people are way, way, way, way into thinking the government, the neighbors, the police, and the aliens are up to no good. Like smoking cigarettes and doing bath salts, toking the conspiracy pipe is super-addictive. If you don't believe they're out to put you in internment camps, then you're ignorant, just like all the other fools. You have to wise up, brother. If you do believe it, then you're peeking through your curtains, terrified, armed and afraid. Either way, those who peddle their conspiracy theories, who make cash from it, have you by the throat.And conspiracies are not something people keep to themselves. But they can hash out their fears anonymously. Everything from chemtrails to alien abductions (after all, why haven't they found the Malaysian plane? What aren't they telling us?) are thrown out anonymously on the lovely World Wide Web, just not with any style, not with panache, and not with much integrity. I thought I would add in the latter as most don't leave their real names when commenting.
There are plenty of reasons to be anonymous, Anonymous says. They might fear retaliation, but felt the thoughts needed to be written anyway - after all, there's no chance someone else already said it better years ago. They might actually like their online name better than their real one. For those who use “Go-Bot” as a handle that would be true, but it isn't for everyone else. Some might use it because they don't want others to think, albeit a little late, that they're stupid.
Hiding your identity serves as a suit of armor. More and more, anonymous posters hide their true names, not out of retaliatory apprehensions, but because it allows them to be dicks. They crank the vitriol to dizzying proportions and troll around like zombies on PMS.
While the tide seems to be shifting, with the problem gaining more and more attention, such as the one-woman war that novelist Anne Rice is waging against anonymous reviewers - those who seem hell bent on ruining particular authors and not the ones who pen thoughtful, honest reviews.
Anonymous reviewers and commenters, however, should learn one important rule. If they're hoping to be read, to be taken seriously (even just a little) they should learn to spell, and run a grammar check once in a while. It's hard to swallow a conspiracy when “NRAlvr” spells tomorrow with one r. How is that even possible in this age of auto correct failures? It's also hard to think my life will improve through meditation and yoga when the person telling me that can't spell celery without using an s.
I won't even mention the grammar mistakes, as I'm no better really, or the word “lol,” even though I really, totally, fully despise it. But at least my mistakes have my real name on it. Of course that's only because Go-Bot is taken.
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