I will periodically show comments that I’ve written which were deleted by the blog author. Readers can decide whether the deletion was warranted or not.
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On August 5, 2012, FusunA wrote a blog called “Forgiveness”. She initially scolded me (and others) for joking around (her own comment showing this has also been deleted), so I wrote:
O.K., in all seriousness, in my opinion, you are more wrong than right. I’ve been reading (and rating) your blog for 2-3 years because of the quality of writing so I am not a hater or part of a group conspiracy against you.
My recollection of events is consistent with others here. You blindsided Joan H. with a critical comment about her writing. I question your sincerity in “helping” another writer as a public comment critical of another’s writing style/content/composition can be viewed as grandstanding by its mere presence in the comment thread. If you truly sought to assist another blogger with their writing, a PM would be much more appropriate.
In addition, you seem paranoid that others are ganging-up on you or that a blog author is purposely ignoring you when you don’t receive an individual acknowledgement in a comment thread. Finally, instead of admitting a mistake in supporting or not-condemning an over-the-top comment, you try to sidestep/deflect the issue and claim to be the champion of critical thinking, purporting to “teach” readers how to selectively-glean valid points from a jackass commenter.
Whatever.
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On August 6, 2012, Bill Beck wrote a blog called “Shell Game”. I was the first to comment and he immediately deleted my contribution, which read:
Not really getting your point here, Bill. Let’s substitute some of the photos and see what one should conclude.
Shell #1 – Any of the killers from the "Zebra Murders" (string of racially motivated murders, committed by four African-American men in San Francisco)
Shell #2 -- John Allen Muhammad (black male convicted of being the Beltway Sniper where 10 people were killed throughout the D.C. area)
Shell #3 -- Seung-Hui Cho (asian male who killed 32 people and wounded 25 others at VA Polytechnic Institute and State University in VA)
And Shell #4 – Jeffrey Dahmer (white male who never killed any of this victims with a gun). Dahmer most likely casually-strolled by others at some point in his life with candy and a soft drink.
What’s the point of mine and your “Shell Game”? Nothing that I can see.
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Another deleted comment by Bill Beck after he accused me of saying that Zimmerman was justified because of Trayvon Martin's "appearance". I never said and demanded that Beck retract his comment and apologize. He hasn't, so I wrote
Still waiting for the link to the comment "proving" what vile YOU say is attributed to me. Oh, can't find it? It's because I never typed it either in the public comments or in a PM.
You are an unethical jackass. Only a pathetic blogger would claim that another OSer said something (in a comment thread that he controls) knowing that he doesn't have to prove it.
Yeah, I'm sure this comment will be deleted in 10 ... 9 ... 8 ...
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On January 27, 2013, Bill Beck continuously-ignores a Mishima666's legitimate counterpoints within his blog titled "Progress vs. The Pucker Factor". Instead of responding in an intelligent manner, Bill Beck baits Mishima666 with a question "Have you ever been in the military?" at 9:38 PM. Thirty-one minutes later, apparently frustrated that not all of us are disabled bloggers able to spend 24/7 on OpenSalon, Bill Beck adds another comment proclaiming that Mishima666 "can't or won't" answer his question. I added the following comment which Bill Beck deleted
Bill,
For someone who is quite intelligent at times, you definitely fall off the rails every once in a while.
You write "But you can't or won't answer a 8 word question with a 1 word answer, one way or the other ... Tell you what, Mish, spare me. if you can't answer a 8 word direct question...spare me the rest."
The difference in time between your question and your conclusion that M666 "can't or won't" answer you is 31 minutes. How 'bout this for a 3rd possibility -- he hasn't seen your question yet.
Since background appears to be important for you and you don't appear bothered in asking others pointed questions, would you care to share why you left the LAPD and what you do now for a living?
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On February 12, 2013 skypixie0 (or as I refer to him, "pie-in-the-sky-pixie) deleted the following comment from his blog titled "Oops! Your Exceptionalism Is Showing ... " where he shows a garden hose sprayer. My comment that he deleted read
Interesting post from a Canadian where 3/4ths of the working adult population is employed by the service industry. In other words, Canadian don't manufacture a lot. In addition, the other big Canadian industries involve natural resources (oil, mineral mining, lumber, seafood, maple syrup, etc.).
So the plastic outside casing of a garden hose sprayer was manufactured in the U.S. and the guts were imported from overseas. I'll bet the box/package said as much. Your point, therefore, is ... ?
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On February 12, 2013, Robert ("I write great posts (you) fucktards") Crook wrote a blog called “2013: The stupid white man's last stand?”
Apparently, he bans dissenting or questioning commenters after calling them fucktards. Crook's reasoning is comical -- basically he says that he's allowed to use a potentially offensive phrase as his blog title because a book uses the phrase. When questioning his rationale, instead of answering, Crook said that my opinion doesn't count because he's been blogging (on Wordpress since 2002 -- wow) and he's never heard of me. I attempted this follow-up, but Mr. Great-Post-Writer) deleted this ...
I didn't realize that who am I or what my comment states has to do with whether my background is "worthy" of you.
How do you know that I'm not a major contributor at a top-10 blog site like Gawker or boingboing and have just joined OpenSalon, thus, my low number of posts here?
You just gave an entire BS-line about how you don't measure the worth of your blog by (its puny) readership or rate numbers, yet you demand that a commenter have some level of popularity in order for him/her to be shown in your thread? How ridiculous is that?
About as ridiculous as any objective third-party would be to label your blogs as "great posts!"
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Furthermore, your recreation of the comments makes no mention of "blunt force trauma" which you stated with regard to Dahmer. That demonstrates your lack of understanding there.
The consistent theme with your dissents is lack of understanding. Rather than trying to learn how to understand, you claim that it is wrong, and not you. You can reference numerous conversations with Paul O'Rourke where you try the same tactic. You offered an argument about the Martin killing while conceding that you knew nothing of what occurred. You said so. You kept demanding that someone explain toyou what happened so that you could disagree. You're right. You dont get it. You never do. That is why it is a waste of time.
Oh, can't? Then don't accuse me of lying or changing "my" comment.
Here's a novel idea. Leave my comment(s) intact and refute them if you feel they are logically-flawed or miss-the-point.
Or, if you must delete them, save the original deleted-comment because I will continue this blog with new additions every so often. FYI.
Here is the actual time that I FIRST asked Mishima666 to tell me his "experience."
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...I would be interested in knowing from your experience why this is not valid.
You're on, Mishima666.
Bill Beck
JANUARY 24, 2013 05:52 PM
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That was the first request which was made 3 DAYS and 5 HOURS before the 31 minute period that you cited. The comment is still there on the previous thread if you care to check it. So, this post is incorrect. I warned you it would be.
"Mishima666, you give a 600 word comment about stuff that I could not care less about. But you can't or won't answer a 8 word question with a 1 word answer ... Tell you what, Mish, spare me. if you can't answer a 8 word direct question...spare me the rest." Bill Beck, 1/27 10:09 PM
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"Have" - 1st word
"you" - 2nd word
"ever" - 3rd word
"been" - 4th word
"in" - 5th word
"the" - 6th word
"military" - 7th word
"Mishima666" - 8th word
Your 10:09 comment (obviously) references Mishima666 not answering an 8-word question at the 9:38 PM mark.
Your Jan. 24th comment "I would be interested in knowing from your experience why this is not valid" is more than 8 words and can't be answered by a 1-word response.
So it is wrong to mislead readers to believe that you waited days for a response. Mishima666 answered you numerous times with specific examples on multiple comment threads after your January 24th statement.
As I said in a PM, I'm sorry that you are disabled and can understand now how many things don't make sense to you. I mean that and won't engage in comments/conversation/debates with you going forward.
As such, I must also delete any further comments that you leave on my blog, as that would give the appearance of legitimacy and/or recognizing your contributions which I no longer plan to do.
Good luck to you, Bill Beck. I mean that.
Patricularly, I am glad that a few of my recent comments, grounded in drunkenness and ignorance, remain for all to see.
To my mind, leaving regrettable comments up acts to temper and ground our otherwise ever-expanding sense of place and entitlement here.
I've had the very worst experience of being accused of as a stalker by a (supposed) female blogger. When asked by me (and others) for supporting evidence, she said her blogs/comments/IMs were "deleted", but people should believe her because ... well ... she was a "nice" person and I had a questioning persona (read as pain-in-the-ass by some).
To bloggers, accuse all you want -- just show all the evidence to support your claims. But certainly don't do what Bill Beck does and delete comments and then claim that the commenter said something vile.
(Didn't know whether to put pie-in-the-sky's deleted comment here or in the blog about Butt-Ugly Old Guys).
On his most recent post he made a number of claims about what "the law" is. I asked him to cite the law he was talking about; this would have been difficult because there is no such law. Instead of retracting his claims he deleted my comment. I posted four comments and he deleted all four. Unfortunately, this is standard operating procedure for him, and there are a number of OS members who have received the same treatment.
In the case of Franky, I think he is engaged in a kind of blog fraud. By deleting critical comments, he makes his posts appear to be authoritative and utterly correct. You look at one of his posts and gosh, everyone agrees with him! In fact, there is disagreement, but to read his post you'd never know it.
Here's the last comment of mine that Franky deleted: "What law? I've asked you three times now, but so far you are unable to say what law you are talking about. Rather than deleting my questions, why don't you try answering the question. Cite the statute or the Supreme Court case. If you can't do that, then all you are doing is asserting an opinion without any evidence to back it up."
That's what I wrote, but you'll never see it on Franky's post. His robust sense of self-importance cannot allow such a comment to exist on his post. He has to maintain the fraudulent illusion that his post is absolutely correct and no one disagrees with him.
No, not really. As you and I both know from our database programming experiences, certain events add to our knowledgebase.
Meaning, once a blogger has shown their insecurity, insincerity, immaturity, or mental-instability by deleting comments that are contrary to their post's message/position, then I mentally-note that experience and most likely cross that blogger off my list of reads.
I wonder, however, if you have read some of the situations above in this post and would like to comment on whether you feel the deletions were justified.