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Edited on Fri Jun-16-06 02:42 PM by WolverineDG
I've been a member of this forum for quite some time now, & have noticed a few things. Occasionally, we get "visited" by those from the outside whose objective is to stir up trouble. This usually happens when Keith is on vacation. The last time this forum was "visited" & disrupted was when someone dropped by to tell us the "bad news" that KO was in a committed relationship. Poster X then proceeded to post personal attacks on our beloved Reverend Cheesehead, which really tipped her(his?) hand. It seemed to me at the time that the only purpose of this particular post was to try to demoralize the KOEB in general (& the personalized attack on Rev was calculated to hurt her in particular). X's reasoning seemed to be that if the "object of our affection" was taken, then we'd be heart-broken & turn into jealous harpies because we'd been "rejected" & less likely to be such die-hard fans. This attempt was SOOOO high school, coming as it did on the heels of her/his revelation that KO supposedly likes 'em young. Again, same motivation & sooooo HIGH SCHOOL. What we do here is kin to the kind of chats about the hotties that we did at slumber parties. Okay, that's high school, too, but at least it's fun & no one gets hurt. That's how I see the KOEB. We like this guy, some of us think he's hot (for various reasons), we post :loveya: until they tell us to stop & everyone has a laugh & a good time.
After that, this forum hasn't been disrupted, although we did get a visit from someone who wanted us to go cause problems for the knuckledraggers on an anti-KO site, saying that is was part of our "mission statement" & suggested we'd get in trouble with DU Admin for not doing so. Well, not to put words into Skinner's mouth, but I'm sure he appreciates the fact that we don't use DU as a forum to go disrupt another site. To each his own, & as long as the knuckledraggers stay on their side of the pool & don't piss on our side, I'm willing to live & let live.
The same cannot be said about other KO fan sites. One in particular seems to get disrupted on a regular basis, by a person or persons claiming to have personal knowledge of KO, to have dated him, to have dated or slept with him, even to having his Ebay username. The majority of these posts are not complimentary of him, BTW. However, as the posts got more & more personal, I started to smell a rat. Who the hell has the time to figure out someone's Ebay username, for cripe's sake? It was obvious that someone was trying to stir up trouble for KO among the fan base, but why? So we wouldn't feel so strongly about showing our support when the real attacks started.
Then this week happened. All kinds of "shocking" emails, allegedly sent by KO in response to flame-bait emails. (Having read some of the emails supposedly sent to KO, I'm hard-pressed to place the writers of them into the category of "fan." "Fans" don't attack their favored celebrity. They send them messages full of :loveya: & :yourock: & such.) If the attacks weren't so blatantly personal & the intent (character assassination) so obvious, I'd laugh at the gossip columnist who apparently thinks people would fall over dead on the street upon learning that KO actually uses the word "fuck." For the record, if I get crap like that in my personal email box, I'd respond in kind too. Baby's got F bombs & she knows how to use 'em. From my work account, I'd be more circumspect, but believe me there's more than one way to tell some knuckle-dragger to go fuck himself without having to use the word "fuck."
Of course, at this time, we don't know if those emails were sent by KO. Many have said they don't "read" like him & I fall into that category. I could be wrong, & if so, I think it's a bad judgment call on KO to use his work email to respond to the knuckledraggers. Why not come over here instead, where he'd be surrounded by all the :loveya: & :yourock: he could stand to offset the negative vibes sent by the knuckledraggers? Then there's the :tinfoilhat: theory that someone spoofed his work email account. If that is the case, then evil to him who evil does (paraphrasing here). Karmic paybacks are a bitch, folks.
That's my take, fwiw.
dg
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