This has been pointed out in other on-line sources such as “All the Rage,” so it’s not like I’m singling out John Byrne on this one. I just find it too hilarious not to comment on.
John has declared that the great scourge of the internet is mind-reading: i.e., people who write posts in which they opine as to what was going through someone’s mind when they said or did something. And he is exhorting anyone on his board to try and stomp this practice out whenever possible.
See, I would have thought the great scourge of the internet was spam. But apparently this is right up there.
The reason I find it so funny is that John, on any number of occasions, has ascribed the most mean-spirited, nasty motivations to things I’ve said and done. I wrote something praiseworthy of his work? According to John, I did so not because I genuinely enjoyed the work, but because I was fishing for compliments from him. And so on.
I wonder if his supporters will, in the future, scrupulously hold him to the standard of conduct which he has now set.
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