Well, I guess joining the jif circle-jerk is one way of accepting you've failed as a writer. How did Tolstoy manage without them? Having read some of your blog and the 'atheism' thread, I'm sure we'd never class you as part of the 'intelligentsia'.
I suspected either Stockholm Syndrome or complete fabrication. It's now clear from your 'contribution' to the thread on the 'Reputation Poll' thread that are a complete lightweight, as you made no serious attempt to investigate the issue, and having been active here since November 2011, I struggle to accept you were unaware of this ridiculous system.
You blandly state:
'And people are free to hide their karma now. They don't have to participate. ' However, a cursory glance at a related thread that was a precursor to the poll shows the problems with that statement:
http://www.morrissey-solo.com/threa...a-distinguished-road-quot-at-the-userprofiles
You commented several times on the poll, and seemed to have no doubt or curiosity about a different perspective. I wonder why! If you read that previous thread now, you'll sense a profound unease from another user who quite clearly feels violated by the abuse he faced when he checked his 'reputation'. This happens to many gentle souls when they go to change their avatar picture from Oscar to Moz,etc. Whilst you may think that your avatar pic is so splendid that it can remain the same year-in, year-out, others wish to change theirs without wading through ridiculous, offensive and sometimes genuinely threatening 'reputation feedback'.
Given your blog asks us to believe that you were a target and harassed on this site, I am finding it difficult to see why you would be so indifferent to this issue. I have concluded that have, indeed, succumbed to Stockholm Syndrome, as otherwise, it's very challenging to understand the purpose of your blog and forum personas.
By the way: why do you use a different nom-de-plume on your blog? Isn't it 'realitybites' a blog by 'realitybites'? Why go to all the effort of constructing a real-world look-alike id, when you can just use your pseudonymous one? I thought you wanted to keep clear blue water between the past difficulties and the present, in which case there's no way you'd still advertise your actual real-world details. It's confusing that you use two different non-de-plumes for your blog and for the forums. I can't see what it adds to your online confection. But then again: I probably don't fit into the 'intelligentsia' category either.
I'm not sure I accept that CG's comment was 'convoluted'. It's worth recalling that you rebuked CG for a harmless banter with me about blow-jobs, which was correctly situated here in The Pigsty, and which is not appropriately subject to your moralising. If it is acceptable for a demented sociopath to attempt to smear me as a 'racist' in The Pigsty, I can see no possible grounds for anyone objecting to a fun discussion on autofellatio and blowjobs. I recall very clearly that CG offered you an immediate olive branch by inquiring "have I offended you?". You could have let it drop, but you chose to be a smarmy schoolmarm and tell the naughty children at the back of the class to stop talking dirty. I don't think that intervention has served you well.
Sincerely
'BrummieBoy'
oops! can't give you no 'feedback' as I have to spread the love around a bit more. Never mind! 
