Do you really think I was so harsh on you, Oski? I didn’t even tell you to drop dead. I responded to you with what came to me, from where you started with your boast that by god, Cal will win the Axe back next year. Then you actually tried to insult me that my musings about God weren’t substantial? Wow, you really are a critical person, aren’t you?

Trolls are trolls, whether they go to a site claiming they only want to educate us with their own version of the facts, like the SEC/Baylor troll on this thread, or when they’re saying they only want to be friends, despite features that suggest something else. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a troll take it well when anyone responds to how reality isn’t exactly what the troll says it is, whether that’s “drop dead” harsh or not so much.

Yet it’s not that any troll is being treated badly. This is cyberspace. No bones are broken. Everyone’s consequences are limited, and even better it’s always fair to say that everyone involved got the consequences they deserve.

I like that. It’s part of why I’ll write what I feel like writing, not write if that’s what I feel like, and whenever someone like you comes along who needs to criticize what I write, it doesn’t change me, because that’s like every other troll who wants to play oneupsmanship games with me, even though you have no idea who I am.

You have no moral authority or practical authority over me. You have no basis to negotiate to get anyone here to do what you want. I’ll respond to you as it comes to me to do that. If you call me out, you’d have to do a very good job for me not to feel like responding. You didn’t do that here. Did you deliberately get my screen name wrong? I’ve said what I want to say about that.

So insult me again as you did before, if you want. It doesn’t mean anything from you. Draw on all that hatred for Stanford on display at California Golden Blogs if you want. You seem to fit right in there no matter how righteously you portray yourself here.

It’s strange how your hatred for Stanford is so much like the hatred SF has for LA that I first learned going to Stanford. My brother lived in LA at the time, so I saw the contrast constantly. SF hates LA in every way. LA doesn’t care. People in LA mostly think SF is a great city to visit, but there are a variety of opinions. There are also a variety of opinions about Cal among Stanford people. I don’t hate anything about Cal. There are scientific areas of Cal that I love.

But I hate trolls. It’s no so bad if you keep your juvenile oneupsmanship and delusions to your own sites, whether those are about politics, religion, sports, or who should be booted off Dancing with the Stars. But come to one of my sites with all the lies that go with being a troll, and I notice it. I don’t always have something to say, but when I do, I’ll say it. You don’t like it? That’s because you’re a troll. This is my community, not yours. Your criticisms of anything here aren’t informed.

Now I’m done. You can try again to claim that everything you do is just fine, and I’m crazy. That’s what trolls do. You can get your colleagues to come here and turn yet another thread into a colony of CGB. You can do whatever Scott Allen lets you do. I’m done until something comes up that makes me no longer done.