DzM wrote:soulfinger wrote:DzM wrote:IrishRover is a lightning rod for criticism and support.
Not for me Chief, I value his right to type oi to his heart's content. I also value my option to mostly ignore his typing of oi.
That wasn't a comment directed at anyone in particular. Just an observation.
Overall, IrishRover is consistently a more controversial subject than just about anything else that's been discussed here. There is a constant churn of words around and about him including (but not limited to) his writing style, his writing subjects, his action (or, until recently, lack of) toward emigration, his loathing of his birth nation and the citizens of, his ability to work with band members within Serbia, whether I treat him fairly, whether the other Janitors treat him fairly, etc. As near as I can tell more people dislike his style and the way he conducts himself here than any other user. More people have left here citing as their reason him, or the polarizing effect he has on people here, or the effects he's had here, than any other cause (other than that people's interests change as time goes by).
The thing that really fascinates me is that a lot of this conversation, drama, turmoil, etc happens independently of his own participation. The usual path is someone unfamiliar with him asks if he's really in jail, or if something's wrong with his keyboard, or if he would please try not to write in such a distorted way, etc. This will usually bring out the people that have an active dislike for him, and this brings out those that feel he needs their defense, and everything quickly goes downhill. This is outside of IrishRover's own constant drumbeat of Jail, Censorship, Poseurs, Managers, Mother Of My Heart, etc. which inevitably kicks off another one of these "discussions" every few weeks. I wish that people could more easily ignore him. I wish that IrishRover would, for the sake of Medusa if not himself, try to be more accommodating to people's requests for some higher level of clarity in his writing.
This is an awful like someone leaving graffiti on the walls of their city. Some people will consider it fine art, others will consider it an eyesore (and given an opportunity will aggressively confront the spray-painter). For the vast majority of people it simply becomes part of the landscape; sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly, and usually invisible. Sometimes these taggers grow into fine artists; sometimes they grow out of the trend; and sometimes they get the living shit beat out of them by cops, or gangs, or people tired of what they see as blight.
So there we are. A long way of saying "IrishRover somehow polarizes people here, and I wish this wasn't the case."
It's probably a bit disrespectful for me to respond to such a cogent, coherent presentation of your view of the situation with fair enough but "fair enough".
