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| Below the Line with MontanaWildhack: 'I am much thinner online' | Below the Line with MontanaWildhack: 'I am much thinner online' |
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| Welcome to the second edition of our new series, BTL where we profile particularly delightful, prolific or controversial members of the Guardian comment community. Are you a Guardian commenter? Dare to step forward? Click here. Want to nominate someone? You can do that too – just email me. BTL is evolving and thanks to your feedback from last week we added two new questions. Oh, and in case you're new here – BTL stands for "below the line". | Welcome to the second edition of our new series, BTL where we profile particularly delightful, prolific or controversial members of the Guardian comment community. Are you a Guardian commenter? Dare to step forward? Click here. Want to nominate someone? You can do that too – just email me. BTL is evolving and thanks to your feedback from last week we added two new questions. Oh, and in case you're new here – BTL stands for "below the line". |
| MontanaWildhack – Need to know | MontanaWildhack – Need to know |
| Joined: 6th January 2009 Comments so far: 4209 Abuse reports: 96 Avatar changes: 5 | Joined: 6th January 2009 Comments so far: 4209 Abuse reports: 96 Avatar changes: 5 |
| Has a comment ever made you cry? | Has a comment ever made you cry? |
| Loads of times, but then, I'm the sort of person who can be reduced to tears by a tv ad. | Loads of times, but then, I'm the sort of person who can be reduced to tears by a tv ad. |
| How are you different on the Guardian than you are IRL? | How are you different on the Guardian than you are IRL? |
| I am much thinner online. | I am much thinner online. |
| Share a comment that you think is awesome: | Share a comment that you think is awesome: |
| Here's a classic from the late, lamented Monkeyfish: | Here's a classic from the late, lamented Monkeyfish: |
| Do you have a crush on a Guardian journalist? | Do you have a crush on a Guardian journalist? |
| I can only pick one? Looks like we're going with Aditya Chakrabortty, then. | I can only pick one? Looks like we're going with Aditya Chakrabortty, then. |
| What's your commenter theme song? | What's your commenter theme song? |
| I suppose this is fairly appropriate, for a couple of reasons: | I suppose this is fairly appropriate, for a couple of reasons: |
| What do you think of the term 'troll'? What does it mean to you? | What do you think of the term 'troll'? What does it mean to you? |
| Well, I'm a bit 'old school' in my definition of troll. For me, it's someone who posts for the sole purpose of provoking a response, not just someone who posts opinions I don't like. I do think there ought to be a special name for the sort of person who clicks on a Lost in ShowBiz piece just to express boredom with the topic and claim ignorance of the celebrities being discussed or who comments on fashion columns about how shallow it is to be concerned with fashion. | Well, I'm a bit 'old school' in my definition of troll. For me, it's someone who posts for the sole purpose of provoking a response, not just someone who posts opinions I don't like. I do think there ought to be a special name for the sort of person who clicks on a Lost in ShowBiz piece just to express boredom with the topic and claim ignorance of the celebrities being discussed or who comments on fashion columns about how shallow it is to be concerned with fashion. |
| What stories do you comment on most? What about a story makes you want to comment? | What stories do you comment on most? What about a story makes you want to comment? |
| Well, these days I seem to be commenting mostly on lighter pieces. I used to comment a lot on women's issues threads, but it seems like you have the same arguments with a new set of muppets and it becomes wearying after a while. It's probably stating the obvious to say that the articles I want to comment on are on subjects that I feel I know something about or that provoke a strong emotional response. | Well, these days I seem to be commenting mostly on lighter pieces. I used to comment a lot on women's issues threads, but it seems like you have the same arguments with a new set of muppets and it becomes wearying after a while. It's probably stating the obvious to say that the articles I want to comment on are on subjects that I feel I know something about or that provoke a strong emotional response. |
| Have you learned anything about yourself (or changed in any particular way) since you started commenting on the Guardian? | Have you learned anything about yourself (or changed in any particular way) since you started commenting on the Guardian? |
| I'm tempted to say that I've learned that I have a real potty mouth, but in all honesty, I knew that already. But that's how I've most changed since I first came to the Guardian, too. I try a lot harder these days to express anger without language that would make a sailor blush and without resorting to ad homs, but there are still times when I read a comment that makes me want to email the moderators to ask if I can, pretty please, call the obvious moron and obvious moron. | I'm tempted to say that I've learned that I have a real potty mouth, but in all honesty, I knew that already. But that's how I've most changed since I first came to the Guardian, too. I try a lot harder these days to express anger without language that would make a sailor blush and without resorting to ad homs, but there are still times when I read a comment that makes me want to email the moderators to ask if I can, pretty please, call the obvious moron and obvious moron. |
| Tell us a secret: | Tell us a secret: |
| I once (accidentally) broke a little porcelain dish of my mother's and blamed it on the cat. | I once (accidentally) broke a little porcelain dish of my mother's and blamed it on the cat. |