Surprising you'd put this kind of post up, hotbtm. I don't have deep enough involvement to hate anybody here (oh yes yes I know NOT THAT), but there are a number that may 'hate' me--this is in quotes because I haven't love or hate until I've met someone outside this flat medium.

It's a gossip column, if names are required, so I'll put a couple who didn't like me (and vice-versa), but we decided we liked each other instead--these were dragonfly20 and think_kink. This is the kind of think that delights me. The two who 'hate' me are only in the chatroom, and I always put them on Ignore if they're in there. I won't name them, but they are old-timers and one betrayed private confidence as well as invented invective due to desire to dominate the room with various kinds of fartiness. I won't name them because we all know that any publicity is better than no publicity at all.

In the forums, there are several who 'dislike' me, but there again I don't want to give publicity for something so odious.

I mean, what is this, group therapy--isn't naming the people who 'hate' you going to further antagonize, or does one then 'work it out'? I've just accepted that the 2 people in chat and I have irreconcilable differences and have no intention of trying to negotiate--it's not worth it. The ones on the board that 'hate' me may put me on Ignore, I know I put them there.

It's also not (to me at least, or not usually) all that possible to 'love' or 'hate' people whose names you do not even know. There is a false sense of intimacy in internet chat and blogs, there's a weird 'buzz of sweetness', etc., but it's based on mostly imagining a lot of nuance and attributes that you can neither hear nor see.