Don’t Mention… No Pants
by the skullkitty (18th May, 2007 @ 10:31 am)The skullkitty has to admit she wasn’t sure whether or not to post up this little titbit of wank when it crossed her desk this morning. Partly because it’s somewhat related to the last wank and we wouldn’t want to make anyone feel we had a vendetta against them, and partly because it’s semi-breaching F!W’s admittedly rather flimsy editorial policy. But what the hey.
Like much good wank, it starts off in the Golden Tether Rants forum, and unusually for that place the post has been locked rather than deleted. I suspect that won’t last, so get in while the going’s good, as they say. It seems that everyone’s favourite guard, Triss D’Vichy is getting upset over a whisper insinuating that just because she (or he, I can never tell) isn’t wearing pants that she might be only getting “one kind of rp” [sic]. You can read the results for yourself.
The wank builds slowly, initially by suggestions that people are trying to deliberately piss Triss off because of his position as a guard. The real wank kicks in, however, when relative forum newbie Jesto jumps in and points out that for someone supposedly keen on ‘politeness’ Triss is being pretty damn rude. Not surprisingly, Triss isn’t happy with the allegations, which essentially boil down to:
- Immediately lashed out at someone not clearly, 100% deserving of it.
- Preaching politeness when only rudeness is evident in the original post.
- Drudging an issue that should have been private onto the boards for a public lynching for the sake of having one – and yes, public, you censored her name gave information on how to find it.
In the resulting fallout, sides are taken…
… but wait! It gets even better when Vinyl, the original whisperer, jumps in to defend herself. The wank continues; more sides are taken, groupthink is mentioned, the word “darlin’” is abused and our friend “I don’t want to get involved, but…” rears its ugly head. More of TGT’s staff show up, and Jesto hits the ground running by mentioning that Triss may be breaking her own forum rules (not to mention Vulpes R’s originals). Allegations that Triss underhandedly revealed Vinyl’s identity become the victim of retconning.
More staff jump in asking for a cessation to hostilities but some of the principle players, including Triss, just can’t let it go. In the end, Skadowee jumps in and shuts the whole thing down. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions on this one, I think.
Incidentally — in the interests of fair disclosure — let’s not forget that this is the very forum that the skullkitty herself has been banned from for causing her own wank.
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