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comment by Isherwood
Isherwood  ·  2421 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Happened to ThatFanficGuy

I think this is spot on. I'm not sure anyone in the main community is intentionally attacking, that would be trolling and to troll for so long and in such a subtle way would be true commitment. I think it's more that two personalities bang against each other and there's a reaction to the impact.

kleinbl00 can be an aggressive personality, that's the reason he's well known here, that's the reason community members give a lot of weight to his approval, and that's the reason he's used as an example in a lot of these conversations.

But he's just a human on a keyboard with his own human flaws. I think the problem comes when his human personality (or replace his name with any other personality on hubski) is confused with the personality of the site as a whole.

And I'm not trying to single out kleinbl00, this exact thing happens over and over in communities online and off.