wizard_of_bore wrote:
Napero wrote:
Congratulations! You just did what Bitterman wants, and paid attention to his contrarian and edgy reviews. His work has not been in vain, and once again, knickers have been successfully twisted. Hard.
Asking to have a member looked at, who calls someone a pedophile and made many other personal attacks is getting my “knickers in a twist?” Okay, if you say so.
My apologies. I messed up my words, and gave the wrong impression here. You did nothing wrong, the barbs were meant to go to a completely different direction, but in an overtly concise form to avoid rewarding the behaviour you justifiably question.
Butterman's reviews are intentionally contrarian, attention-seeking, and basically just stereotypical trolling. And just like any troll, he likely gets his kicks/energy/narcissist supply from the attention he gets specifically because of his extreme opinions. It took me years, personally, to get across the fact that quite a few reviews on the MA are actually just acts stemming from desperation for attention, and he is the holotype of that. If he pops up to reply to this thread, you will see Bambi-eyed pseudo-honest explanation that his reviews are written in an earnest fashion, to relay his opinions, and not to troll; that is a part of the act. He likely revels in the light of the attention he gets, and that part is just part where he milks it until the cow's tits fall off. And since the MA is based on the assumption of honesty, and every reviewer's opinions are given an extended and very broad benefit of doubt, his works are likely to stay here, unless there are clearly factually wrong things in them, or they are judged to be too offensive to stay in the current culture and atmosphere.
The best course of action is to find reviewers whose opinions you agree with, and trust them; that, by default, means agreeing with their
positive opinions, and that's something you obviously cannot do with BM, given his
modus operandi and objectives. He has twisted the knickers here repeatedly, and that will happen again... and that's his sole purpose. Pay no attention to him, it's not worth anyone's time. I hate it when someone gets that attention, that's all.
So yeah, sorry. I came across in a different way than what I intended, it was not directed at you, even if it seemed like that. Let's untangle our collective knickers... mine seemed to be in a Gordian knot, too.