People Suck Sometimes
June 19th, 2008After the recent troll bait and successful hijack of the comments here, I’ve decided that if you want to discuss, you are going to have to use a legitimate email address.
I suppose I can understand someone’s need for anonymity if this were a whistleblower site or a site where people who have been downtrodden or otherwise wronged were expected to spill their guts so the DA or the feds can file charges. This isn’t that kind of site and people shouldn’t need anonymity here.
So I apologize that if you want to leave a comment, you will have to jump through some hoops. If you signed up a year and a bit ago when I moved to WordPress, that login still works.
When you get to the login screen, click the link “Register” and go go go, Harold and Joe. o
Tags: comments, douchey, fuckwads, troll
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
As if you guys don’t have enough crap to deal with.
Stupid trolls.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I just wanted to thank Jessica for helping me find the bird. It still looks like all the other dents on my screen, but thank you.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Jon, we love you. Registering is no problem.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
wow, I’m really disappointed in humans right now. I’ve been reading your blog and Heather’s for years. (some day you will come to Dallas and I will visit and we will take a picture together that I can frame and sit next to my computer). I completely understand how difficult it has been for you to venture out with your photography. The first hesitant steps at selling something, at possibly actually accepting that your good at it and it is worth sharing. Those are precious baby steps and some big fat toddler has just pushed you. Well fart on them. Or, as my friend Cody says “fuck ‘em and feed ‘em fish heads”. I don’t know what it means but it makes you feel better when you say it. Go ahead, try.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
np.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Jon,
I know you don’t need to hear this from me… but I am going to say it anyway.
I look forward to your site every morning. I love your artistic abilities with the camera and your writing and can’t wait to see what you post.
I don’t understand why people feel they can be hateful while hiding behind their computer screen. Nothing better to do, I guess.
Keep up the amazing work.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Whew, a troll attack. How strange those people are. Amusingly hypocritical, too. The two artists Doug linked to use technology to alter and enhance their photography. I just had to type that because well…we know Doug has no life and he’s reading these comments.
It’s true I spend a lot of time on the computer but the one thing I don’t do is waste time on sites I have no interest in, and what’s more comment in them. Now that’s what I call a person who needs a window.
The enjoyment of visual art is subjective. To each his own. If you don’t like something, change the channel. Ok Dougie?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Ditto, Lesley. I was offended more that he slammed — really, really insulted — those that enjoyed Jon’s photos than I was that he criticized the photos themselves. As Lesley pointed out, art is subjective. I mean, really, do we even have to point that out?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Registered ages ago, still works. No problemo with this!
June 20th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Art isn’t a window, it’s a mirror.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:41 am
You’re welcome Melissa!
June 20th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Images allowed?
June 20th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Apparently not. So:
http://www.endofcyberspace.com/200708282052.jpg
June 20th, 2008 at 7:35 am
So sorry to hear you got troll blasted. There is a difference between respectful discussion and being an asshat. This Doug character was the latter. There are scores of websites on the internet, if you don’t like one-go to another. There is no good reason to insult the owner and patrons.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:38 am
If you reveal what you love the most on a blog, trolls start commenting. I think that’s how the Internet works. But you also (hopefully) find ten times more souls who relate to you, and those are the guys you’re writing for anyway. My two cents.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:38 am
My pleasure to register if it makes for a troll-free existence.
I love the cloud photo. I think it’s really beautiful.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I guess there had to come a time. And at least you know the majority care enough to register.
I have to echo others sentiments that your blog is one of the few that I catch up on everyday. Your wit, humour, geekiness .. is really fun. And I’ve always enjoyed looking at your photography .. I think you have alot of talent.
Anyway - keep up the great blog Jon.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:46 am
OK - my laptop has been out of commission as everything I click on gets deleted. Click = delete. Also, backspace key not working. Never a stronger argument has been made for me to dump my Dell in the river and purchase a damn Mac, but I digress.
So I’ve been reading ‘my’ blogs on my BlackBerry, and as a result could not find the bird and didn’t read comments, etc. But I trusted it was there and the cloud looked all nice and glowy and I understood because I am mesmerized by cloud formations as well. I get it. I assumed everyone else did as well.
Picked up said laptop from the laptop dr yesterday and checked out the photo full-screen. Great colors, had to scroll pic to look for bird because damn my screen is dirty! Had not noticed that! Still did not read comments. Discovered that click still equaled delete and nearly had a breakdown in coffee shop. (also, backspace key not working well.) Ahem.
I tell you all that to let you know the agonizing process I just had to go through to re-register (what do you mean, that password is incorrect? I use that password for EVERYTHI…oh. never mind), check my e-mail, cut and paste a new password into the gatekeeper.
FUCKING AMAZING PHOTOS, JON. You have a great eye, and it certainly takes balls to put your stuff out there where troglodytic knuckle-draggers feel compelled to hurl their feces at it. No offense to troglodytes.
You’re right. People do suck sometimes. But not all people.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:59 am
(apologize if this shows up twice)
i’ve never understood the vitriol people need for the criticism of the relatively mundane.
you take pics
you post pics
some people like your pics
some people buy your pics
some people don’t
end of story
how much controversy is there in all that? i’ve been reading your stuff since forever ago and don’t think you ever made yourself out to be liebovitz. you aren’t bragging, boasting, or getting all critical with anyone else’s stuff. you have your own style, you don’t fancy yourself a pro, and people enjoy what you do. so why NOT?
i admit, sometimes i’m not a fan of the heavily edited shots. not my style. and that’s cool. there are proper forums (and proper decorum) for that kind of discussion.
the attack of your fans is what i find most absurd. the cries of sycophant ring most hollow as it’s only logical that people who DO enjoy your photography and design and writing would visit this site. if now, why fucking bother?
ps: the park bench? it’s still a killer shot.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:11 am
yeah…that is the suck. No worries though…sign-up took less than a minute. Anything for you John.
Thanks.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:12 am
whoever did that or whomever did that or whatever
should suck a dirty basketball.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:21 am
first time commenter….
love how the site now showcases your amazing photography skills. and if we have to log in to keep out the trash, who cares? totally worth it.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Polly, I think you mean a sweat goat ball.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:24 am
I just wanted to say that sometimes your tags on posts are funnier than the actual posts. Amazing.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Honestly, even if one is underwhelmed by the photos, one doesn’t have to be a jerk about it. I know I wouldn’t be able to take photos as nice as Jon’s, but I have a couple of friends who are better photographers (after MANY years of practice).
Somehow I’ve become interested in this family I’ve never met. I enjoy the way they write about the mundane things we all face.
Keep up the good work, Jon (& Heather).