I've come to ActiveRain and begun writing an online journal / blog so that I can learn a few things by posting on some topics and participating in a discussion of those topics, and hopefully teach a few things I know along the way.
What's happened all too often instead is that people are jumping in, ignoring the topic, and trying (and sometimes succeeding) in hijacking my post into a discussion of my style rather than the substance of what I had to say.
Some of the critics, perhaps even a majority of the critics, are well-meaning and think they're helping me with this.
They're not. They're just making it more difficult for me and the people who do want to have a discussion of the topic. They're as rude, and off base as the cheap-shot critics and the clowns. In the context of the discussion, they're all clowns to one degree or another.
This is my "round up the clowns" post.
Here you can stay on topic, since the topic is how insulting, impolite, ignorant, learning-averse, arrogant, etc. I am, and how you'd learn more from me if I just learn to talk nice.
Feel free to post your logos here in your signature, to add your credentials to your signature, to pretend that you don't have a first name and that your last name is "Your metro area specialist." You can sign yourself with your company name. You can even flaunt your religious bigotry if you wish.
You're also free to add comments that compliment me purely for the points or to make yourself feel good, but that don't advance the discussion. Here they do.
Feel comfortable. Feel free. This is your community, this post here. Look around and tell yourself "nobody here but us clowns and vandals. This rocks!"
If you don't like me or my style, express it here, and leave me and the few who want to have a conversation in my other posts alone.
Look at it this way: your collective wisdom on the subject will make it clear to everyone who reads my other posts just what a clown I really am.
I don't intend to answer comments on this post, so it's all yours. I will read it from time to time.
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