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It’s my soon-to-be-mother-in-law’s birthday I wish her more birthdays to come and good health. Cheers!

I thought exams and projects are the worst times in my life… but this morning (pass 12 midnight) I felt so exausted, tired and sick of running Munsci.net community. It is the abyss of my e-life. Oh I hate hypocrites

Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:26:31 +0800

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Since I was exposed to the internet, I was very interested in community forums. I have joined different board with themes starting from animes to movies, computers to teen-talks and back. I have learned so much from Animenet.com, one of the most active anime community back in 2000. It is rule of thumb not to let forum members flame each other; otherwise, the community will be in total chaos. I remember back then two factions emerged in the forums and the admin (Tom) couldn’t handle the pressure from different parties. That’s the version I know, but even if the details I know are incomplete, I know he closed animenet.com because of personal and online community problems. Animenet.com is now just a history…

It all started with trolls picking and flaming others. A lot of bashing was happening back then but I stepped aside and didn’t side with any group. Sometimes it’s cool to be neutral.

After years of troll-free posting in forums, yesterday in one of the forums that I administer, a troll claimed that I don’t know proper netiquette. and that I was rude when in fact I was only asking a question on my previous reply to the original question. The question is “What’s your point”. It’s very common in everyday English language. In other words, “What do you really mean” or “Can you highlight your subject”. It was misinterpreted by a troll in my forum and he reacted violently by posting a page of insulting words addressed to me. I was stupefied. People are getting too sensitive, harsh and rather unintelligent because they put themselves in a very shameful position. I pity them. As long as my conscience is clean, I will not bend at them. I can simply ban them from Munsci forums whenever I like. After all, trolls are not allowed in our online community.

Ok, it seems that I have gotten 100 points in our Math quiz but then my answers were corrected and from 100, my points sank down to 80. @#$%! It’s all ready a perfect score but I lost it! WHAT THE…

Ok, calm down, calm down.. it’s okay, it’s alright.

I have to concentrate on our Logic Circuit project until tomorrow. He have to finish the circuit by this week. It’s quite funny because from what I have observed we are the only group in our class that has a complete diagrammatic sketch of 555 [0-999] counter. It’s not really easy because we have to complete the circuit ourselves… and I put tremendous effort researching it even if it is not completely prepared. Of course we haven’t tested the circuit yet so that’s what we’re going to do tomorrow…. I hope we’ll be successful.