h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...that if I was an incredibly successful writer with dozens of interesting, successful, exciting, diverse writer friends, and we were all fabulously artistic and creative, that I'd have an insight into my field.

And I think if we were all so exciting and fresh and fantastic and insightful, we'd be a valuable asset to any project we worked on.

And I really think that if I was all those things and so were all my fabulous friends were too, and there was a website, we'd either muck in and improve it or we'd set up on our own.

But I suppose that's my mediocre moderately successful opinion. I mean, I only write for the web for a living. I'm not a fantastic artiste with millions of darling friends.

Maybe if I was so brilliant, I'd decide not to muck in. I'd just sling muck from the sidelines, hi-jack every conversation and try and make everyone else's experience on websites far more infuriating and disheartening than they need to be.

If that's the case, I'm glad I'm only competent.

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I'm actually the second coming of F Scott Fitzgerald, but I'm not going to waste that talent on you unappreciative oafs.

That's why I've not written anything in six years, it was just pissing in the wind.

Dammit, go to the *lee* side of the site to do that

Hey, you don't need a million of darling friends. You've got me. mediocre writer, yet willing to muck in.

Mediocre writer, average sub-editor and passable moderator? Why, you're just sevens across the board, aren't you Bel?

You got it in one.

I've never thought you were a mediocre writer, Mr 603.

You, either, Bel.

I'd hazard a guess that someone who's made a successful livelihood of writing probably knows a thing or two about writing, creativity, and artistry.

Well, maybe mediocre is too harsh. Fair to middling.

In seriousness, I'm of the opinion that it doesn't do well to think too much of your talent. If you underestimate yourself, you surprise yourself with what you can do and constantly push yourself to include.

But if you just sit in your ivory tower, complaining that nobody else meets your standards, well then you're too self-obsessed to improve.

Improve, not include. Damnit autocorrect.

"There is no greater burden than a high potential." ~ Linus

to be honest I can't stand artists who actually like there own work,
humility is a wonderful thing

There's liking your own work, and there's thinking that your work is absolute flawless perfection.

well that is more along the lines of what i was thinking
I mean have some pride in what you do
but there is always room for improvement

Agreed.

I also think that if I was worried about the misfiring "Who's Online" function causing horrendous problems to the site's reputation, I wouldn't leave comments on entries about stuttering mocking those who stutter.

The mental acrobatics required to hold these double standards must be exhausting.

Ah. Is Effers being a twot again?

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A real dross comment on today's FP article on stuttering. Apparently it's high humour to p-p-p-post a c-c-c-omment in th-th-th-this style.

Wouldn't bother me, if she hadn't pretended that the Eyes would lead to some granny suing us for pretending her abducted granddaughter was alive. Apparently that's a real, viable situation that could happen, but someone finding an EG article on stammering and being subjected to her mockery in the comments couldn't possibly happen.

She's just a nasty piece of work. (Hi there, if you're reading this, you sick voyeur! )

She's just an unpleasant troll, really. Overtures of LekZ. Wouldn't surprise me if they're one and the same, to be honest.

B