It's late at night, so forgive me if this feels rushed (okay, it is). I just saw your thread on Koth. It's easy for me to say that I had my suspicions but didn't say anything because of the atmosphere. There's that, and I plain didn't feel like it, though I know someone should have.
When I first heard of internet communities, all I could think of was that there was a liar or scammer waiting right around the corner. Nobody is female. Everyone's lying about their age. Honesty really shouldn't exist here. So when I came onto my first forum and hung out there for a while, I felt so very confused at first...as almost everyone was being honest.
That level of honesty struck me out as strange. I'll skip the discussion and cut it at that we both know what disasters can occur if one is too liberal with information online. Well, I do anyway. Quite well.
Still, honesty is something you get attached to. Something you love seeing from people, and can't bear for such a sacred gesture of goodwill to be violated. We know that KOTH didn't do it with the intent of offending anyone, no, just to make himself seem better, but that doesn't make it okay. I'm sure you knew what everyone was going to say about KOTH afterwards; and that's what's bugging me. I feel sorry for the guy, and while I wish he had turned around, I think he himself said it best what he was going to let happen to him when he just kept inviting everyone to hate on him. Really makes me feel sad about the wasted potential there. At most, however, he'll hopefully take this whole thing as a learning point to improve as a person. Hopefully.
Good blog, anyway.