Post by Traveller on Mar 14, 2006 22:15:18 GMT -5
I had my doubts about this post from the beginning. There was no real narrative and it felt more like flamebait than like a story, but I wasn't sure. Was Rockdad trying to praise the locals, who I agree tend to wonderful hosts, or was he trying to pick a fight with those burners who had a little bad luck and ran into a bad time? I visited ePlaya today, and any doubts I had about somebody's motives vanished. All I had to do was look at the man's track record, more than a little of which was directly linked to from the main page at ePlaya. I had never seen that much trolling from one person.
I don't doubt that there are people who've been abused by some of the local authorities or some of the local people on their way to Burning Man. I've always been positively impressed by both, but there are both good and bad people anywhere you go. If somebody reading this had the bad luck to run into some of the jerks, I'm sorry to hear that. If by leaving Rockdad's story in place, I left you with the impression that I was endorsing somebody's attempt to taunt you over that bad time, I'm sorry about the misunderstanding.
Please understand that I'm just another human being sitting by his computer, pounding on his keyboard and trying to make sense of it all. I won't always know what's going on and sometimes when I do know what's going on, as much as I will try, I won't make the right call. All that I can do is ask you to accept that I am fallible and that I am doing my best to make this a friendly place for you to be.
I don't doubt that there are people who've been abused by some of the local authorities or some of the local people on their way to Burning Man. I've always been positively impressed by both, but there are both good and bad people anywhere you go. If somebody reading this had the bad luck to run into some of the jerks, I'm sorry to hear that. If by leaving Rockdad's story in place, I left you with the impression that I was endorsing somebody's attempt to taunt you over that bad time, I'm sorry about the misunderstanding.
Please understand that I'm just another human being sitting by his computer, pounding on his keyboard and trying to make sense of it all. I won't always know what's going on and sometimes when I do know what's going on, as much as I will try, I won't make the right call. All that I can do is ask you to accept that I am fallible and that I am doing my best to make this a friendly place for you to be.
