I hate people.

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*sigh* Made a rather egregious error today, it seems. Silly, silly me. I made a post to a community in reference to moving across the country with cats...and I got almost a hundred responses. Many of them were in some way lecturing me about how bad and irresponsible I am to move from Baltimore to Oregon, and how I should stay here and find a job (Oh wait, there's one behind the sofa, it was there the whole- oh, nevermind. It was just the cat.) and accusing me of planning to loaf around while my unemployment runs blah blah blah blah. Then there was the super-special "you won't find a job here because you're not an Oregon native. We don't like outsiders coming in and you'll just be seen as stealing jobs from the locals!" (Wow, I never knew that interstate relocation was so akin to illegal immigration!) The moderators came in and started deleting some of the more obnoxious ones- they deleted at least 35 posts, maybe a few more than that even.

And then wouldn't you know it, one of the uh, best commentors (is that a word?) came back and accused me of deleting posts- that is after another accused me of having "no interest in dissenting opinion". *sigh* People had gone way past "dissenting opinion"- Dear asshole, here's the line of dissent, and here is you and a bunch of others pole vaulting waaaaaaaaay over it. (A moderator has since posted to let them know that it was them deleting the posts.)

Seriously people, you had no ground on which to make judgement calls like that on my situation and then lecture me like I'm some fucktard who just went "Yuk yuk, know what would be really fun? We should move to Oregon and sit around with our fingers in our nose for a year!"

Yeah, I probably won't be making any other posts anytime soon in that community. Because clearly, people there don't know how to answer the question that was asked- and someone said flat out that I shouldn't have said anything about where I'm moving to or from or why, or any other details except for the exact question that I wanted people to answer, therefor people being jerks is all my fault.

Yup, I asked for it.

Comments

[mallyns.livejournal.com]

poor skills. Where people go to throw down but I'm poorer than you, therefore you shouldn't be in the comm. How dare you have cable didn't you know poor people don't have cable!

Sorry babe. If I wasn't in school I would do the trip, but I can't miss any more classes.

Washington is nice, and you can live outside Seattle and work in the city for cheap, well cheaper than MA anyway.

[chironcentaur.livejournal.com]

Ugh, Massachusetts is one place I'm glad I'm not anymore; don't get me wrong there are things I liked about it (well, not where I lived, but other places), but in the economy it would be a nightmare (I know, the rest of my family is still there, struggling).

Well, I think we've both learned not to ever ask a question there again. As much online drama as I've put up with, wow, was not expecting that. O.o

[mallyns.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are some great things about MA, and some really crappy ones. I'm just really glad that I have lived in the same place, which allows cats, and heat and hot water is included, and the most important part the rent hasn't gone up in 10 years. $1200 a month is still a lot but it could be worse.

Poor skills is a hit or a miss. Some people really freak out there, lots of drama lama's.

I just wish I could help you guys more.