Ever had someone turn your mood to shit in nothing flat?

[wolfwings]

I just did.

Am thinking it was a bad idea to ever get a character on HLM. Am thinking it was a worse idea to ever meet half the folks on there, as I have a magical ability to piss them off, and the group that's usually on there and that has their own self-formed 'club' has a magical ability to piss me off in return. To the point of someone telling me to 'shut up' instead of simply ignoring me, even when the MUCK itself has tools to let them ignore me quite readilly built right in.

I'll see how I feel over the next two days, but I get the feeling I am going to be leaving there, at this point.

Comments

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

The fact that they(the majority users of HLM from the information I'm able to visually see) would rather 'slap' me, so to speak, then use the same tools to simply ignore me and continue on quietly, is my problem. That you seem to have missed that is surprising to me.

And in this case it wasn't drama-heavy. I wandered into what looked to be a technical discussion comparing two programs, and added a couple comments about specific situations in my experience that were relevant, and pointing out a different criteria that could influence a decision between the two. Yes, I'm specifically leaving details out unless you want them.

Even when my initial impression of the discussion was verified, instead of pointing out possible flaws in what I'd said, or even simply asking me to talk about something else, I was told to 'Shut up.' instead.

So I sat there, and when I could type again, I appologized, logged out, and sat down and thought about why I was even there... what reasons did I even have for going there in the first place (talk to you, Aerowolf), what other things were there to do there (nothing that I've seen except go to the peak to look for a conversation or very occasionally move a conversation to .geek instead of spamming the peak with it).

I wish your suggestion was valid, hon, but there's nowhere else to retreat to on there that I've seen, it's just too small still. Aside from you and to a lesser extent Premchaia, I don't know anyone there, and I've apparently alienated myself from most of the 'active' userbase that I've actively conversed with for more than two lines, except you two and Natasha.