I'm not that PJ!
Sep. 29th, 2009 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonThere's just no winning on the internet. I don't know why I'm still participating sometimes.
I occasionally, very occasionally, leave a comment on a certain author's blog under the nickname of PJ. Someone pointed out to me a comment left by someone calling themselves PJ on her blog back in 2006. Not me. I didn't even read her work until last summer. I probably starting reading her blog about that time, too, but it took me a long time before I could get over my natural timidity and fear of being an idiot and to feel comfortable leaving a comment of my own. I don't believe there's anything from me (the real PJ) until this year.
PJ is a common enough nickname, I suppose, and it wouldn't be so bad that two of us had commented there except that this other person said something insulting—insulting enough that the author felt the need to rebut the remark in her next entry.
I was horrified, frankly, and a bit nauseated. First of all, I don't leave insulting remarks on authors' blogs. In fact, I try not to leave rude and insulting remarks on anyone's blogs. I may occasionally be clumsy and inadvertently come off as a douche bag, but I never intentionally set out to be a horse's ass. It's just low class in so many ways. And, secondly, I totally disagreed with the remark. I really like this writer's work, and I like reading her blog. She makes a great deal of sense on the subject of writing popular fiction.
So now I'm contemplating sounding like a raging nerd (in addition to being misidentified as a douche bag) and leaving a new comment declaring myself not to be that other PJ. It would probably be stupid in many ways, not the least of which is that it is probably not a fraction as important to her as it is to me. Also, she may not even remember the incident, although I generally tend to remember insulting people, especially if the name pops up again after three years making nicey face. It would make me suspicious. But then, I'm not only a raging nerd but paranoid. I should probably let it be, except for the part about being horrified, nauseated, timid, and afraid of being an idiot. (Really, my nightmare scenario.)
So I guess I won't be using PJ anymore to leave comments.
I occasionally, very occasionally, leave a comment on a certain author's blog under the nickname of PJ. Someone pointed out to me a comment left by someone calling themselves PJ on her blog back in 2006. Not me. I didn't even read her work until last summer. I probably starting reading her blog about that time, too, but it took me a long time before I could get over my natural timidity and fear of being an idiot and to feel comfortable leaving a comment of my own. I don't believe there's anything from me (the real PJ) until this year.
PJ is a common enough nickname, I suppose, and it wouldn't be so bad that two of us had commented there except that this other person said something insulting—insulting enough that the author felt the need to rebut the remark in her next entry.
I was horrified, frankly, and a bit nauseated. First of all, I don't leave insulting remarks on authors' blogs. In fact, I try not to leave rude and insulting remarks on anyone's blogs. I may occasionally be clumsy and inadvertently come off as a douche bag, but I never intentionally set out to be a horse's ass. It's just low class in so many ways. And, secondly, I totally disagreed with the remark. I really like this writer's work, and I like reading her blog. She makes a great deal of sense on the subject of writing popular fiction.
So now I'm contemplating sounding like a raging nerd (in addition to being misidentified as a douche bag) and leaving a new comment declaring myself not to be that other PJ. It would probably be stupid in many ways, not the least of which is that it is probably not a fraction as important to her as it is to me. Also, she may not even remember the incident, although I generally tend to remember insulting people, especially if the name pops up again after three years making nicey face. It would make me suspicious. But then, I'm not only a raging nerd but paranoid. I should probably let it be, except for the part about being horrified, nauseated, timid, and afraid of being an idiot. (Really, my nightmare scenario.)
So I guess I won't be using PJ anymore to leave comments.
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Date: 2009-09-30 02:40 am (UTC)I'd definitely want to tell her.
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Date: 2009-09-29 10:11 pm (UTC)Who pointed out the original comment? Another commenter?
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Date: 2009-09-29 10:25 pm (UTC)You are very kind.
Who pointed out the original comment? Another commenter?
Google may have been involved.
It just burns me that if been dorking along all this time making comments while this poison pen letter was sitting in her archives. You know, I'm not that important, but reputation is a very fragile thing.
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Date: 2009-09-30 10:08 am (UTC)And yeah, I'd let the author know that you aren't the rude PJ.
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Date: 2009-10-03 12:08 am (UTC)Besdies, TLA namess are often used in our industry. Jsut ask PNH and GVG.
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