June 08, 2005

Can you copyright the word "And"?

Ah, it is amazing to me just how petty and difficult some people can be. They get vicious at the drop of a hat for the most insignificant things, and actually seem to go out looking for someone to bully.

Let me give you a prime example. The Spousal Unit had been a frequent commentor on several blogs for months when he took ill in November, 2002. It was not long after that, several months actually, in an attempt to give him a reason to get out of bed every day and join the human race that I built him his blog. I logged him into MBlog which offered free hosting supporting a Movable Type platform and signed him up.

He always been fiercely American yet still very proud of his Dutch birth and his status as a Naturalized Citizen. Because of this, I wanted to use the word "emigre" somewhere in the title. Also, as a Loyal Citizen of the Empire, he was entitled to the use of the Digital Cluebatâ„¢ when dealing with the stupid, the vain, the morally repugnant, and the evil items about which he would blog. So on that day, sometime in 2003, his blog became a reality. His first address was an approximaiton of this:

www.mblog.com/emigre_with_digital_cluebat.

Slowly, one person at a time, his readership began to grow. Good people, regular readers, began to frequent his comments and engage him in debate. Delftsman has always encouraged those who do not agree with him to come and enter the discourse. If they could make a valid point, they were welcome to do so. If he saw bullshit, he called bullshit. And if he was proven wrong, he admitted it. As far as this goes, he was a much more inclusive blogger than I have ever been.

Then MBlog got caught with their hands in the MT cookie jar or whatever it was that precipitated what they did to all of their bloggers. We awoke one morning, tried to access his site, and it simply no longer existed. All that appeared when he tried to sign in was a screen explaining that his blog was gone, that his archives would be available for 30 days, and that by paying a ransom he would be able to save them from obscurity. Needless to say, because of our financial state then and now, this was impossible, so months of writing was simply lost forever.

Delfts was devastated, so devastated in fact that he considered not blogging again. It took me a long time to convince him that he could always guest post on my blog until we could find another host with high quality and free blogging. He was not alone in this, as I had built many of my "blog children" on Mblog. One by one, I reconstructed their sites at Blog-City, or in the case of Slaglerock sucessfully nominated him for a Mu.nu blog. I also nominated Delftsman, as he was bridling under the constraints of blogging at my site.

Finally, the email came and Delfts had been accepted as a Munuvian and his address was established. He was delighted, and has worked hard to regain his readership and provide a small debating forum for his regular commentors. He still mourned his lost archives, but there just was nothing we could do to retrieve them.

Fast Forward to today...

I wake up after a very short "night" to find Delfts at the computer, upset and angry. Seems that only one person in the entire world is entitled to use the word "Emigre" as part of a blog title, and Delfts isn't that person. Yes, you read that right. Another, from the gulag which is Blogspot, has seen fit to post a pretty vicious little attack piece on Delftsman over his use of the word "Emigre" for the title of his blog. Citing blog longevity as his claim to entitlement, this other blogger has spent more time pissing on Delft's blog than any sane and well adjusted person would. With absolutely no provocation, this other blogger has resorted to name calling and the impuning of a person's character over the use of a single word.

Now, I could almost understand it if this word were one he had coined specifically for use on his small corner of the blogosphere, but it is not. The word Emigre has been a recognized part of euro-based vocabulary for much longer than either of these blogs has existed.

I will not link to this child who shows nothing but comtempt for a fellow blogger over a word. He doesn't deserve the traffic that would result from such a link. But take a moment to go see Delftsman and let him know what you think of this nonsense. After that, it's up to you what you do.

Update... Apparently, I'm not really a woman. So, not only is Delftsman a construct and not really an emigre in his own right, I'm not really a woman. Apparenlty I'm the Softer Side of Karl Rove. Perhaps Dick Cheny in lace and a red wig.

Anyway, this insect tried to up her traffic with a trackback to this post, which is now gone. If you want to see what all this is about, follow the trackback to Delfts and go from there. He doen't mind his blog being a conduit for sewage.

And I did leave a comment there. Not that it will do any good. The blood is in the water.

Update, the Sequel: Yet more trackback pings from the retrovirus of the TTLB Ecosystem. Again, deleted and sent to the oblivion of hell in the bloody clutches of leather-winged demons. In the meantime, does anyone know how to block trackbacks from this little snot?





Posted by Mamamontezz at June 8, 2005 05:49 PM
Comments

"has spent more time pissing on Delft's blog than any sane and well adjusted person would..."


I think you nailed it in one. What a sick sack of #%^@.

Posted by: pam at June 8, 2005 07:42 PM

I don't believe this attack has anything to do with the name, if you can't stand the truth I suppose the next thing is to attack the messenger. He is just more of the slime oozing from the left.

Posted by: Jack at June 8, 2005 11:25 PM

For the first time in a while I go looking for my friend Delftman, and he's gone! :-(

I come here, and not only learn what happened, but learn of this new outrage.

To say I'm pissed is like saying Howard Dean is an unreconstructed Far Left Democrat: Damned Right on both counts!

My life's been hectic of late, but not only will I be correcting the link in my blogroll, but this story will be blogged, & I'll be paying the Emigre and his Digital ClueBat a visit of support.

Posted by: Kiril The Mad Macedonian at June 9, 2005 02:43 AM

I checked that situation out last night.

That dude is a major asshole.

RWR

Posted by: RightWingRocker at June 9, 2005 12:49 PM

Hey Blog Mom,
I just gave the AntiPodean Idiot a good sound Thrashing,Pis on her or it or whatever ,What a self absobed wanker.
Cheers from Rainy Tampa

Posted by: LC/Ib NeilV at June 9, 2005 01:45 PM

Hey Mama, I posted a message for Delfts over at my blog. That bitch, and it is a woman from it's profile, is nothin but an attention whore. We know who the truthteller really is.

Posted by: ElizabethM at June 9, 2005 02:07 PM

I know you're pissed Mama, but don't even give the flea the attention. For crying out loud, this stupid bint is so far down on the Ecosystem N.Z. Bear almost has to include "Retrovirus" as a category just so the bitch can compare RNA strands with other losers.
Even engaging in dialog with the she-hag gives it traffic it doesn't deserve.
Easier said than done, I know, but who really gives a rat's ass what someone who can't even muster up the writing ability to be an effective troll thinks?

Posted by: Graumagus at June 9, 2005 09:09 PM

Oh yeah, if you want to bitchslap someone, smack ME! I just realized that I didn't have your hubby blogrolled (for some reason I thought I did).

Oversight rectified...

Posted by: Graumagus at June 9, 2005 09:10 PM

Gramagus, I would never bitchslap you unless you seductively looked up from your cushion on the floor at my feet and asked "Please, Mistress."

Posted by: Mamamontezz at June 9, 2005 09:19 PM

Wow someone lower on the TTLOB then me :)
The skank from down under is still at it.
She is a fesering boil on the Nutsack of Humanity.
The nasty little Cunnas has got to be about 17 and addicted the DU....What a tool ....
HAve a good One Guys

Posted by: LC/Ib NeilV at June 11, 2005 07:25 AM

If that little windbag needs proof, I got her freakin proof right here:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mblog.com/emigre_with_digital_cluebat

End of discussion;-)

Posted by: Chablis at June 11, 2005 09:01 AM

Oh Hon,

I'm so sorry you and your hubby are being subjected to this mess.

My grandmother always said you can't win an argument with a crazy person. I'm afraid that applies here.

Posted by: Janette Stripling at June 11, 2005 02:54 PM

Oh, lord. What a whiny, pitiful, petulant little LOSER. I was tempted to leave a bitchslapping comment, but all that would do is feed his/her/its self-aggrandizing little conspiracy theories. "Delfts doesn't exist!" "Mama is a boy!" "They're all really communists baiting the right-wingers!"

What an insignificant, whinging, whiney, cuntbaggy little fuckbint.

Sweat it not, Mama and Delfts. Every sane body in the blogging community knows the score.

Posted by: Kelley at June 11, 2005 08:21 PM

I couldn't sit this one out, Mama! And I have corrected my terrible oversight of not having you and the Dman 'rolled!

Posted by: Eric at June 12, 2005 12:44 PM

My sincere condolences to your husband. I can only imagine how I would feel in a similar situation. I'd be devastated. Not that my writing is so wonderful, but every blogger is proud of what they've done.

As for dear Emigre, I've noticed he posts his sitemeter alongside every post. Amazing.

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