I’ve been experimenting with making YouTube videos (I’ll put up another one this weekend!), in part because it’s a fun challenge, but also because I’m constantly horrified by how atheism is represented in that medium. I expect creationists to be nattering dinglebats, but when atheists come along and be raging assholes, it’s always disappointing. In the last few days, an unpleasant example has shown up in the comments to this video.
SwolllenGoat: why do you disable ratings like some creotard?
I ignored him for a bit — that “tard” construction is a pretty good indicator that he wasn’t worth engaging — but I’ll tell you why.
Ratings systems are evil. Old timers may recall I mentioned them as an option on blog comments some time back, and most of you were horrified at the idea. All it does is foster tribalism, and then the stupid little stars become a tool for factions to anonymously snipe at one another.
I’ve seen it on YouTube. The ratings on YouTube videos are often useless — they’re only used for virtue signaling by one group or another. When we did some FtB videos a while back, it was obvious, since we’d have these hour-long videos, and within minutes of putting them up, the anti-SJW kiddie campers were clicking madly to downrate them. So I don’t use them.
I didn’t feel like explaining that to this guy, so I gave him a short answer.
PZ Myers: Because of people like you.
You know he wasn’t going to be satisfied.
SwolllenGoat: what kind of person am i?
I ignored him.
I did look at his YouTube page, though, and the “related channels” for this guy include Atheism-Is-Unstoppable:
Devon Tracey, or Atheism-is-Unstoppable (channel name) is a moderately popular YouTube atheist. Most of his content consists of Anti-SJW/Regressive screeds common amongst YouTube atheists. Occasionally this manifests itself in extreme rhetoric, which can sometimes be argued to be mildly racist, and is occasionally too much even for TheAmazingAtheist. He is also notorious for blocking people who disagree with him and for doxxing a couple of those he didn’t like. Due to these antics, many YouTube atheists, even those who share his general views, have denounced him.
And Bearing:
Bearing, or Patrick Connolly, is an Australian anti-feminist who, after failing as a musician, actually thought it would be a good idea to quit his dayjob as a real estate agent in order to focus on his next scam on how to get money without working: a shit YouTube ‘career’. Which basically, in traditional Aussie fashion, consists of nothing more than calling people cunts while producing the anti-sjw community’s equivalent of low-effort clickbait.
Hard pass. Case in point why YouTube atheists have such a shitty reputation.
But he was persistent.
SwolllenGoat: C’mon PZ
What ‘kind of person am I?
Why so butthurt when I pointed out you’ve disabled ratings just like one of those sad creationist dipshits?
Maybe you should block me next?
Shut down the comments entirely?
You know whats funny?
Answers in Fucking Genesis does not disable ratings,and they are flat out retarded
YOU do disable em
How things change…………….
That a clear demonstration of exactly the kind of person I want to just fuck off. So I thanked him for being so obvious.
PZ Myers: Thank you for answering your own question so effectively.
Now the fun begins. He starts raging at me. Note: he posted this while thinking I had blocked him. I don’t quite understand why he’d bother if he thought he was blocked, or how he reconciled the fact that all of his comments appeared on the video with his martyr complex, but he did go scurrying off to use an alternative login to get past his imaginary ban.
SwolllenGoat’s AudioBook Archive: Bwaaaahaaaaahaaaa
You sad little man
You blocked me for daring to ask a question
C’mon PZ
Tell us
What ‘kind of person am I?
Why so butthurt when I pointed out you’ve disabled ratings just like one of those sad creationist dipshits?
Maybe you should shut down the comments entirely?
You know whats funny?
Answers in Fucking Genesis does not disable ratings,and they are flat out retarded
YOU do disable em
How things change…………….
He typed it twice in two accounts, to be sure!
SwolllenGoat: Im sure that made some sort of sense to you,inside yer head,before you typed it
Rest assured it makes no actual sense,eh?
So,come on,what kind of person am I?
The question asking kind?
The atheist kind?
The liberal kind?
You have ratings disabled like some garden variety creotard because of atheist liberals who ask questions?
I remember the good old days of YT…………back when we atheist types would mock creotards because they disabled ratings and closed comments sections,or blocked users and whatnot
LOOK at yourself PZ
You are them
How sad
I don’t know. I might end up disabling comments if this is the kind of irrational atheist dork who’s going to show up and posture like an ass. I’ll keep ’em open for at least the next few videos, though.
It’s unfortunate that these gomers are unable to LOOK at themselves.