LAST NOTE: to 'Nicholas', to everyone

To 'Nicholas',

I have never felt so upset about a person I do not know. I haven't even been directly involved in this issue and I cannot believe how angry I am right now. You have driven me to boiling point.

"As for my bashing of homosexuals and others, haven't you ever felt like pissing people off?

Hey, apparently you people are pissed off. I'm glad to see that my efforts have not been futile."

You just admitted that you're simply out to annoy us. Not only are you a pathetic person who corrects other people and doesn't look over his own writing; you're doing it because you have nothing better to do.

We're here to learn and practice our writing and we would love constructive comments. If you think cynix is "rash" then why do you comment and criticize in the same tone? You're no better than us, 'Nick'. You're so much more pathetic. And as a side-note; some part of me is beginning to think that you're even targeting certain people as victims to your poorly written bouts of verbal abuse. I have reserved judgment in the past, but honestly, no wonder you don't have a blog of your own. How embarrassing would that be?

'Nicholas', this is a last warning. You are seriously getting on my nerves. I don't think I'm alone when I say that I think you're from SPH. Perhaps from our own grade, or the 12th (in which case you are a socially retarded person with no other purpose in life but to make others' lives living hell) If you are then you had better stop and not cross the line. Worst case scenario; don't think that having an anonymous profile makes you invisible. We can trace your IP.

If you're not from SPH, I will ask to close our blog to the public and make it exclusive. I don't need to be subject to a pathetic, pompous scholar's pointless, poisonous commenting.

Last warning; back off and criticize your own aimless and otherwise negative existence. The rest of us have better things to do with people who are worth our time.


To English bloggers,

I'm also addressing my team members here; let's stop wasting our time on this person. Just recently, epitath of twilight posted a comment that was unnecessarily rude. This chicken of a man who calls himself 'Nicholas' is seriously interfering in the whole point of the blog here. We're here to practice and develop our writing skills. It is our hope that we will constructively criticize each other and mature together in our education. We don't need--and now that things are this way, we must not have--a pathetic, cowardly something-or-other with too much time in his hands making us unreasonably upset and disturbing the whole process.

I'm aware that some people think it's exciting that this whole comment-war is happening. I disagree. I find it, in the least, heavily annoying, and now it is beginning to border on verbal abuse. I've only been watching the ensuing battle between you guys and this 'Nick', and it's tiring me out. In the beginning I was so happy with the idea of a blog; I wanted to see what other people's writing styles were like and what kinds of things they'd talk about when given the chance.

I don't want to see people spitting fire and using up space on our blogs at an anonymous user who is, honestly, not worth our time. This 'Nicholas' is being given more attention than he deserves (which is to say, none). He's giggling with undisguised glee (see above comment excerpt) at our attempts to bash him. This guy doesn't care--he has no good name to uphold anyway. With his hidden identity, he assumes that he's not accountable for the things he says. But we are; you are responsible for what you say in your comments, just like I'm responsible for what I say here. We can hide under nicknames and aliases, but we know who we are. Sooner or later things are going to get worse and maybe then you'll agree when I say I don't really see how this is exciting.

It annoys me when I see tons of comments on the posts made on 'Nicholas' and so very little on topics you guys have written that I think deserve feedback. On the other hand it angers me when I see this aliased twit making snide and hurtful comments on blogs that I think deserve to be paid attention to in other areas.

I think we should stop this; and this time I'm doing what I can to help it stop. From now on, any more scathing and pointless comments by 'Nicholas' in Monochromatic Rainbows will be immediately deleted. Comments that attempt to egg this retard on will also be deleted. That includes any comments to follow this post.

Please take this seriously. I'm sick of hearing 'Nicholas this,' and 'Nicholas that,' when you could do something else with the breath you're wasting on a guy who's not even brave enough to be held accountable for his own words. Personally, I would rather back off. Worse comes to worst; no more blogging. It's not worth the grief.

-Rachel, English A1 HL, 11 IB.

P.S.: Twilight, I deleted your comment. Please mind your language. 'Nicholas' is not the only person who needs to learn to be civil.

To the delightful Nicholas Vosalalalblah. Person, thing.

Disclaimer: This post is solely the intellectually deficient opinion of Steph/Tank.S, and in no way reflects on her A1 blog buddies, class and or teacher.

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My post today bears little or no importance to the world or our lives in general. However since I have very little to write on (due to my less than exhilarating life), and I MUST post an entry by tomorrow, I suppose I shall have to make do with the topic or a person that per say, antagonizes (almost) all current A1/2 bloggers.

Nicholas Vosanovic.

Nicholas Vosanovic, for those who have not been paying attention to this blog's, WWJD, etc.'s comments, he is a person, an anonymous person with no blog under his belt, who blocks his profile and who needlessly complains and criticizes everyone’s blog entry.

I’ll give you all several excerpts. (Trust me, there are a lot to choose from)

Nicholas Vosanovic said... (on Dante’s recent blog entry)

…
Considering the fact that your style is meager, your writing feels forced and suffocating to read, your words are not even contextually correct, and your grammar is like that of a child, I am quite sure that you picked these words from a thesaurus and will probably forget what they mean in a couple of hours or days.

I mean, just take a look at what you're writing. Your style is very casual and unstylish yet you use such uncasual words. It makes me feels constipated.
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Using your thesaurus, you are attempting to glorify yourself and cover up your insecurities about how bad a writer you are. Since NONE of these words in your first paragraph are even used correctly, it makes it look even more obvious that you are using a thesaurus and that you are doing so very ineptly.

Thus you are making a complete fool out of yourself.

September 9, 2007 10:58 PM

(Still on Dante’s blog)

… So if you insist on practicing your english and using these words that you don't deserve to use, write in a diary or something. Don't embarrass yourself.

September 10, 2007 8:00 PM

Nicholas Vosanovic said... (on Cynix’s blog entry)

you are repeating the same ending as the one you had for your previous post.

don't you have any new ideas?

by the way I don't think its true that technology is causing people to become socially incapable.

maybe you're just socially retarded and you're blaming it on technology because you have noone else to blame.

September 11, 2007 7:54 PM

Nich V. again on Cynix's gay blog entry.

Nicholas Vosanovic said...

why are you so self-righteous and acting like you know everything about morality?

who are you to say that homosexuals don't choose to be gay? they're so perverted that for sure, they had to make decisions to become so sick.

and you are very passionate in this writing. are you homosexual?"

Alright, honestly, while our dear Nicholas is not always wrong, is it really necessary for him to stalk A1/2 blogs 24/7 for grammar mistakes and errors?

Granted, cynix is often times overly self righteous, and all of us don't have the perfect English he insinuates he has, still, Nicholas honey, whoever you are, you must be a very, very, VERY sad person. Do you honestly find pleasure in criticizing others? This is an ENGLISH CLASS blog, which is meant to be an outlet for people to improve their, wait for it, WRITING SKILLS. Sure, correct our grammar if you so desire, but those malicious comments?

Don’t get me wrong, I adore web fights, it is fun, but you are doing so anonymously and without having a blog yourself. You mock us so indiscriminately whilst shrouding yourself under the anonymity that is the World Wide Web.

If you are so grand, please DO enlighten us of your writing prowess, Nicholas Vosanovic! Do you really have enough gravitas to claim superiority over us all in content, style and grammar?

I know, my blog entry is at the moment sub-par, but unlike Nicholas I actually have tests to study for, essays to write! Why are you so intent on shattering our already brittle shards of self-confidence?

Do you (and in certain cases I) derive instant self glorification from it? A smug sense of superiority? Just as you said to Dante, “Using your thesaurus, you are attempting to glorify yourself and cover up your insecurities about how bad a writer you are.”

Aren’t you doing the exact same thing? You said it yourself; you are using your superior grammar knowledge to glorify yourself!

Yes, we may indeed suck, but what are we, 16, 17? We have more essays to write, grammar mistakes to pen, horrid sentences to articulate, but unlike you we don’t hide behind the system of anonymous commenting.

We type our pieces, hoping that our effort will be rewarded by a kind comment, but what do we get? You, Nicholas dear, stamping whatever satisfaction we had five minutes prior. (Yes, 5 minutes people, Cynix posted at around 7 PM then Nicholas posted at around 7 PM)

You see Nicholas, whoever you are; I commend your love of English and your particularity on word usage. But when that love of English turns to hate and that once beautiful love turns to glaringly spiteful comments, (which probably made someone cry *cough* cynix *cough*)I really think you should take another leisurely pursuit.

Like making your own blog. Enlighten from of our dreary simpleton-esque mistakes; enlighten us all to what blogging is really like. And you know, use that obviously superior talent of yours to actually, I don’t know, WRITE?

What is it with people and their ‘smug sense of superiority’ anyhow? Why do we try endlessly and ridiculously hard to hail ourselves superior to another person verbally and mentally? (Or is that just me and dear Nick?)

Is it because we try to compensate our short comings by scoff at another’s even shorter short comings?

Is it because we simply don't want to become ordinary and therefore boring. The thing is, if everyone is superior in someway, and if everyone is special in their own way, then isn't everyone basically and drearily bland and un-special?

Why are we all so terribly afraid of being ordinary, at being seen inferior, of being seen useless, weak and pathetic to the extent that highlight other’s weakness solely to hide our own from others and even unconsciously from ourselves as well?

Succinctly said, I have no idea.

Maybe, Nicholas does.

Van Wyck Brooks once said, "People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

Is that true for you Nick?

Much love, Steph.

P.S. : Please DO engage me in a comment fight Nicholas V.!

I pinky promise you that I shall copy paste your comment onto this post! :)