Jeff’s Meta-Blog Ramblings on Nastiness in the Comments Section and Forum Discussions
October 31, 2007 by kishner
There’s been a lot of aggression expressed in both the forum and blog over the last 48 hours. I recognize that only a very small minority of regular readers actually participate in the comments section. I’m not sure how many of you actually read them. (Please answer the poll at the end of this post.)
WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE SKY?
Mars is in Cancer. People express their anger in an indirect manner, or they act aggressively to protect others. The Moon conjoined Mars yesterday, stimulating people’s anger.
Mercury is retrograde in Libra, about to station direct. Miscommunication is rampant, and people are having difficulty writing with tact and diplomacy. As I write this post, the Moon in Cancer is just two degrees away from making a 90-degree angle (“square”) to Mercury (it will be “exact” later today). More hurt feelings resulting from poor communication.
EVERYONE … this will pass. Mercury goes direct tomorrow. We are currently in a fog of confusion as Neptune goes direct today. Unfortunately, Mars will go retrograde in Cancer on November 15 and won’t go direct until the end of January.
I know it’s Halloween, but that doesn’t give us a free pass to be horror-ble to each other.
Subscribe to Sasstrology for the latest articles by email or RSS.
Become a fan of Sasstrology at Facebook.
Follow Sasstrology at Twitter.
Follow Sasstrology on Google buzz.
I do read the comments and I choose not to participate in the nastiness. Its ridiculous really to even try.
It really doesnt matter where the signs are, if you just choose to disconnect your energy there really isnt a problem.
Yea, I read some, aggression is a good word to describe it, scared me….I know that don’t want to put my name here cause of it I will put it in code since it is halloween and all
norahS
Fortunately I have somehow missed all of the blog nastiness and aggression.
But I think its a waste of energy to participate in an activity that is hurtful to others.
Lets treat each other with respect and tact.
If you only have negative things to type, then keep your fingers still.
thank you
and let the pot not call the kettle black
for goodness sake
*Hand up* I was feeling good all day until I came on here. And then all this anger bubbled up out of nowhere. Thanks for writing about this, Jeff. I had to go check the transits and saw some stuff that made me pause.
It has been a great in-person day for me today, but online? Not so much. I’m gonna take a much-needed nap. I’m jet-lagged and cranky.
Sorry to anyone I offended.
Sorry to hear of such nastiness on this forum. It certainly didn’t start out this way. It would be nice if we everyone could be respectful of one another.