{"id":182,"date":"2008-08-17T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T17:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/how-to-not-be-wrong-in-an-internet-fight\/"},"modified":"2020-05-23T03:54:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T07:54:08","slug":"how-to-not-be-wrong-in-an-internet-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/how-to-not-be-wrong-in-an-internet-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"How to *NOT* be Wrong in an Internet Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">As seen on MySpace&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Currently on the front page of MySpace's Top Blogs\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/screenshots\/notbwrong_1.jpg\" alt=\"Currently on the front page of MySpace's Top Blogs\" width=\"480\" height=\"151\" border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/eb_is_book.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The latest in my self-help series on MySpace is an excerpt from my new book: &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">Confessions of an Internet Superhero: How I&#8217;ve Cleaned the Web up and Made it SERIOUS again<\/span>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Well kids, in the last chapter, we covered &#8220;How to make everyone care about the same things you do&#8221;. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 7px\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/cyber-robin.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\"\/>I think it went really well, don&#8217;t you? As a result, no one says &#8220;retard&#8221;; Racism has been eradicated; Cancer and AIDS are a thing of the past;  We&#8217;re all Vegans, attending church regularly, and voting for John McCain.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think I had a little something to do with it.<br \/>\n*pats self on the back*<\/p>\n<p>Recently I received a letter from a fellow Crusader for Internet Justice who shares my vision of ridding the internet of Icky Bad People (IBP).<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border: 1px dotted gray; padding: 10px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #ffffcc\"><p>&#8220;But Eriiiiiic&#8230;. someone disagreed with me and said I was WRONG!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NONSENSE! An Internet Good Guy is *NEVER* wrong. We took an oath. Don&#8217;t you see? This is merely just a ploy by the haters and the bad guys to make you doubt yourself. Only stupid people disagree with you. Am I right?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">The following suggestions will help you in your Online Battles and MAKE you right every time:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1- <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Raise an army against the forces of darkness and evil<\/span> &#8211; Might makes right. It is a known fact that if 5 people or more say the same exact thing, it is Gospel Truth. Twenty or more of your friends invading the stronghold of your arch nemesis&#8217; blog and pummeling them and their mindless minions into the ground will make them wrong FOREVER!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/smileys\/nutkick.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/smileys\/002_chairsmack.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/smileys\/owned.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2- <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Don&#8217;t waste your time with a fake profile<\/span> &#8211; Do you go to a clothing store and argue with the mannequins? No! A fake profile is someone not using their real picture, or their real name. Other signs are not disclosing personal information such as a home telephone, social security number, or where their children are in a handy hourly itinerary on their MySpace profiles. FAKES!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how the words manage to get on the screen, but I can assure you there is no human being with a soul or feelings behind this &#8220;smoke and mirror&#8221; illusion. Clearly this is some terrorist tactic of some sort by someone with something to hide! (Unless they agree with you. Then they&#8217;re ok.)<\/p>\n<p>3- <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Beware of the &#8220;fence sitters&#8221; and people not sharing your passion to rid an evil entity off the web<\/span> &#8211; People that don&#8217;t agree with everything you say or do is SURELY a betrayal waiting to happen. Watch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 7px\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/anvil2.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\"\/>4 &#8211; <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Use your painful past to deflect criticism and justify your actions<\/span> &#8211; As a child I was TRAUMATIZED when I saw an anvil drop off a roof and kill my uncle. Anvils are not funny. 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