Nice comment. I’d like to point out a few errors in it.
“You put your LiveJournal address on the SDMB.”
Wrong. I never did and once I realized that it was accessible by my email addy, I hid the email addy. Believe it or not, I do not feel the need to share everything with the SDMB. I do have some secrets. How you found my journal I don’t know or care.
“Now we know SP’s screen name. Congratulations.”
Is that a threat of some sort? It wasn’t enough fun to read my journal and know my innermost thoughts, but you had to include a vague threat? Whatever.
If you were trying to upset me, congratulations. I feel like completely exposed. Revel in it.
BTW, the journal’s deleted.
Allow me to be the devils advocate here. You have a LiveJournal, and are upset someone finds out about it?
I have no idea what is going on with Stinky Paws, and I’m not sure I even want to know. All I know is that you mention it a lot (which is fine in and of itself, I guess), and that you apparently keep an online diary at a rather well-known site.
There will always be people who put two and two together, hardygrrl. Whatever their motives may be.
“I do have some secrets”, you say. I’m sure you do. But I’d advise you not to put your secrets on a webpage.
I’ll admit to making the mistake of mentioning that I had a LiveJournal here but I know I never provided a link. My username there was not hardygrrl. My email address was hidden.
I don’t mind that someone read it as much as I mind the comment. So you know who he is. What can you do with that information?
Lesson learned.
What Coldy said - Why would anyone would put their “innermost thoughts” on a web site? I thought the whole point of LiveJournal was that you expected other people to read it. If not, why do it?
The point is, I didn’t care if other people read it, it was the snide comment.
Like I said before, I never provided a link to it here. My username was different and my email addy was hidden. Therefore someone either hit on it randomly or played detective.
There are other Dopers who know SP’s identity who I trust will not betray my confidence. This person however…
The journal’s dead and I’ll stick to paper and ink from now on.
I’m having trouble seeing that comment as a “vague threat.” If it had been something like,
“Now we know SP’s screen name. Soon everyone will know.”
or
“Now we know SP’s screen name. Litigation to follow.”
or
“Now we know SP’s screen name. I hope his Norton’s up to date.”
…then I could see a threat. But the comment you received looks more like it’s from someone who thinks SP is a good guy and that you’re fortunate to have made a hookup with him. There’s certainly not enough there for you to conclude it’s threatening, or even snide.
Will you be leaving your paper and ink journal open on your desk at work, and complain when people read that too?
Well ya know something? Most people don’t care who SP is, even though he is the center of your life and you rarely post without mentioning him. I’ve been sent the links to several people on livejournal, once you log on to someone’s you can view as long as you want to keep hitting the button if you want to read about someone else’s life.
It’s obvious that someone just wanted to stir you up and succeeded. I’d take it with a grain of salt and let it pass.
I have to agree with a lot of people hardy, in that I don’t see the comment as snide or threatening, but rather made as a result of a sort of amazement. I’m sorry that you felt violated by it. However, many times, when you post about SP, you emphatically state that you will NEVER reveal who he is, and we will NEVER be privy to your romance, but then…in the words of the famous song,
whoomp…there it is!
If I found out a piece of trivia that I have to hear about cryptically every day, I’d let people know that I knew it, too.
At least they just told YOU that they knew SP’s identity. They didn’t start a thread or anything.
The person who commented emailed me and it’s resolved.
Any journalling I do from now on will be private and the LiveJournal’s officially dead.
I’ll try to post about things non SO related from now on.
Mods, can we close this?
“Blah blah blah blah Stinky Paws blah blah blah men want to fuck me blah blah blah Stinky Paws blah blah blah blah I’m in a relationshipblah blah blah blah anal sex! blah blah blah Stinky Paws blah blah blah blah blah blah Let me tell you some more about Stinky Paws even though I can’t EVER tell you who he is blah blah blah blah blah blah.”
How come everyone but me is allowed to say stuff like this about this chick, but I’m the antichrist for saying anything?
Shit, I read her stupid journal a coupole of weeks ago, I also know who the hell this guy is…and even I, who am supposed to be (according to some folks, anyhow) the “anti=hardygrrl” (which I can’t see as being a bad thing) didn’t bother to post any of it publicly.
But I’m “jealous” because she’s more “popular” that I am or a “better flirt”…sheesh.
Yeah, it’s snide an un-called-for, but I want to say THANK YOU to the folks who brought this crap up over the weekend, THANK YOU to magdalene for more accurately summing this crap up than I ever could, and THANK YOU to the people who totally left me hanging out to dry a couple of months ago, but whose threshhold has also apparently been broached.
And no, there’s no reason for me to post this other than sour grapes and ill-will.
Aw Hama - you’re a whole TWO MONTHS overdue with this post! I’ve been missing my appointments and everything! How am I supposed to set my watch by your pit explosions when you let me down like this?
And it isn’t even your own thread or anything. Frankly, I’m disappointed.
I do post about other things. I start threads about other things as well.
After the Pit thread you referenced, I have been very careful not to post about youknowwho because people were getting tired of it.
No matter how much you beat the horse, it’s not going to get up and run.
Hamadryad,
Like I said in my “Dopers You Adore” thread, I had no hard feelings for you after the Pit thread died. I figured you had your opinion, I had mine and we could co-exist on the SDMB.
For what it’s worth Hama, I almost said something snide (and really snide, not just perceptually snide), but I promised baby jesus yesterday that I’d be a better person if he’d let me lose ten pounds before my birthday.
a) What magdalene said…if she wants to let it go, she shouldn’t start a fucking Pit thread about it. Starting Pit threads when you don’t want to open yourself to ridicule makes the Baby Jesus cry.
b) jarbabyj: You’re a better person than I am, as has been demonstrated any number of times. Me 'at’s off to the Duke…or Duchess, I suppose.
c) Yes, hardygrrl, you said we could coexist on the boards. While your ringing endorsement of my continued presence here brought me pride and joy unfelt since I lost the chance to host my 6th grade talent show, I’m relatively sure I would have kept on posting without it. And what do you know, we have managed to coexist on the boards! I’ll be sure to nominate you for a Nelson Mandela Freedom Fighter’s medal.
d) kabbes: I’ve been trying to be nice. Fat lot of good it did me…now someone else is getting the credit for poring through her journal uninvited and making judgements.
e) I’ve posted plenty of crap in my journal as well. It’s a LiveJournal. If I don’t want any yaboo who can follow a few easy clues and friends links to it to read it, I make the entry private - read, “friends-only.”
Posting things you don’t want people to know PUBLICLY, on a LIVEJOURNAL people know you have, and which would have been easy enough to find had I NOT been given the address WITHOUT ASKING FOR IT, is lunacy. It’s even more rampantly delusional to think you’ll get sympathy by starting a fucking PIT THREAD about it. Anyone with the reasoning ability of a constipated ferret would make the connection “public journal = not for shit I don’t want anyone to know.”
And in case anyone could possibly care less…even in my most uncharitable moments in my own journal, I haven’t mentioned any of these yaboo’s names…so she ain’t talking about me in the OP, at any rate.
Ms. hardygrrl ma’am…if you wanted to let this drop…if you didn’t want people piling on you…if you weren’t looking for attention and sympathy and millions of cyber-hugs from your adoring fan club…why didn’t you just keep all of this in the LJ community, rather than dragging it directly to the SDMB?
Inquiring minds couldn’t care less, but it’s an interesting question nonetheless.
