Avatars -- A Virtue Attached To Assuming Recreational Skin

mha

I really wish you would stop stalking me whynot_31. Seriously. I will say AGAIN for the record -- and publicly. YOU are freaking me out, and I want you to STOP. I've said publicly, CONSISTENTLY, I do not wish to become your friend. I have no wish of knowing who you are behind the avatar, and I am truly bothered by this very public, online shtick. Every time I post, you respond right away, and now you are friending me on FB??? If I want a white shadow I'll watch the t.v. show. I've made it VERY clear how I relish the notion of the avatar, the anonymity, albeit tissue thin, and you have made great effort to pierce the veil, poke your head through, and have now claimed for all the world to know you sent me a friend invite on Facebook.

I hope the moderators bear witness to this, and see what I would like to classify as a hostile poster. THIS is hostility. I've asked him to chill out CONSTANTLY, and he hasn't, and in the same way that I can receive messages from moderators asking me to stop 'harassing' posters, I have asked whynot_31 privately and NOW publicly to stop this insane, scary behavior. Please, stop it. I bring my opinions to this blog, I share them expecting some modicum of privacy, only to be told by someone he thinks he knows who I am, and now to be told hey, 'I want to be your friend on Facebook'??! WTF??

How is this NOT harassment? If I was a white woman with a red Vespa, wouldn't it be creepy that some dude I don't know is now sending me messages on Facebook? And using this medium to state this? Isn't ANYONE going to step in and be a -- what do they call it when someone's bugging out and needs a reality check? -- an intermediary?

I don't value this. There is nothing to appreciate in your actions; at all. I said it some time ago CREEPY, and now you respond with more. Please, I am asking someone to step in and tell him to chill out.

whynot_31

I really thought you'd be above claiming you are a victim.

....but if you would like to imagine me as:

the peeping tom who gazes lustfully at someone from some dank, dark spot, PEEPING

that is your choice. Your isolation creates such fantasies, and watching you make mass generalizations is entertaining, but only to a degree.

P.S. Your attempt to avoid the issues raised in my post is quite transparent.

MOD

Mod Note:

Ok guys, I think MHA is out of line in calling WN an asshole and such as this is against the rules of decorum here. I also think Whynot should at this point stop with the "friending" and constant attempts at engaging MHA in person. He's taking this as harassment, and we should respect that his wishes are to not meet you in person or through FB or whatever and quit pushing it. He wishes to only use this forum as an anonymous poster and as long as he follows the rules of the site, there is no problem with that.

THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE: In the end remember this is private message board, do not act in anyway that you would not act while as a guest in someones home. We are here to build not divide our online community. IF you become a constant disruption of the community and become an unwanted guest in this "home" you will be removed.

aaaaaaaaand on that note, this thread is getting a time out for a bit, while ya enjoy the great weather.

dailyheights

I agree with Mamacita - this isn't an appropriate online discussion.