Oh. My. God. How have I been online this long and not seen The Flame Warriors yet? If you spend much time reading weblogs--and especially if you are a weblogger, you simply must read it. You'll recognize yourself in at least one or two of those descriptions I'll wager. You'll also recognize some of your favorite bloggers. For example:
N.Z. Bear is very obviously Big Cat.
Ben Kepple is so obviously an Eagle Scout it's hilarious.
I won't even start with how many people fit the Issues label. And there is more than one Atheist hanging out in Dean's World too, I notice...
I suspect that I am mostly a combination of Android and another part Jekyll & Hyde, although I'd like to think of myself as Kung Fu Master.
What a hoot!
I'm even going to email the author with my own suggestion for a Flame Warrior type:
"Labeller" Labeller's main form of attack is to sling around labels like "tree hugger" and "liberal" and "rightwing" and "neocon" and "feminazi" and "homophobe" and so on to dismiss his opponents' arguments as invalid. Labeller is sometimes mistaken for Troglodyte or Ethnix, until you realize he's a little more sophisticated--but not by much.
I'm seeing a nerdy guy with little glue-on labels stuck all over him, a label gun in his hand.
(By the way, I can't remember who sent me this link, but thank you!)
"'Labeller' Labeller's main form of attack is to sling around labels like 'tree hugger' and 'liberal' and 'rightwing' and 'neocon' and 'feminazi' and 'homophobe' and so on to smite his opponents."
Dude, you forgot "Bush-hater." Or, if that's too ecumenical, try "partisan."
Ideologue (http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame55.html) applies to a hell of alot of people (including me) who comment regularly on this site.
As for me, personally, I see 20-30 of those that apply to me, in some way shape or form; and I haven't even read through the whole site yet.
Heh. Okay, you got me. Although, the main issue being, if that's your primary form of attack on most arguments.
There really are Bush-bashers, and the giveaway is always the same: everything is "lies" or "incompetence." Everything, everything. Anything that can be interpreted in a negative light, will be.
Such people make rational discussion very difficult, and I don't mind slapping them with the label--although I suppose it's easy to get careless that way.
There are quite a few "Profundi Maximi" in the Blogosphere.
Ummm, well, I'd have to confess I'm something of a cross between Picador and Artful Dodger. (Who else do you know— especially, how many other preachers do you know— who could defuse a religious argument by simply changing the subject to the bar scene 25 years ago in Madison, Wisconsin?!) Though just lately I've been more of a Lurker.
do you have to go thru EVERY SINGLE ONE to find which one you are?
Unfortunately, I think I'm a cross between Ethnix and Stone Deaf.
No, Ara, I can just tell you.
You're a Lamer.
Hee!
I read through all of them, and I stood out like a sore thumb: Rottweiler Puppy. (with a slight hint of Evil Clown.)
Tim the Soldier
Dean:
Lamer? "Crushing dullness?" As if!
I'm seeing myself as a "devastating" Kung Fu Master or perhaps the "playful" (and occasionally "lightning-quick") Big Cat.
As for yourself, well, I can pick only one Warrior type: the "slightly aloof", "humorless", (not to mention "ponderous") Philosopher.
:^)
Philospher? Moi? You dumb Palooka!!!
The key to "Labeller" is that he thinks that by naming the philosophy his opponent adheres to, he has actually refuted his opponent. It is a sort of magic in which knowing the true name of something gives you power over it. This page of conversational cheap shots includes this under "Name It." This is how "Why, that's Calvinism!" entered my repertoire of snarky remarks.
My comments have been infested with Troller/Artful Dodger cross-breeds lately.
Actually, Ara, you and I have been tagged as potential Duelists. Heh...
I feel like Big Cat myself, but it's hard to judge yourself sometimes. I doubt I look that from the outside. :)