I keep hoping I'll get over the urge to shout at people when they link to the site, but I talk myself down every time. It's disproportionately stressful, though.
The site is not evil. I must focus on that. Well, it is a sort of evil, but that's an entirely different thing.
There is a letter in the Vine (Tomato Nation advice column) today about a potential pathological liar. Super fascinating to me.
The closest I ever came to outing my Buffistadom at work was when someone mentioned TV Tropes and I couldn't keep from snarling. I can't remember specifically how I wiggled out of it.
I keep hoping I'll get over the urge to shout at people when they link to the site, but I talk myself down every time. It's disproportionately stressful, though.
I've just accepted that it'll never happen. Best I can do it bite my tongue and seethe on the inside.
It's a shame, really, because of course it comes up all the time for us, and of course it's useful and a neat thing because it was our idea. And our work. (Okay, not mine personally, but us ours.) And its very continued existence relies on the continued work by someone who claimed not to have a continued existence. So it stays infuriating.
I saw it linked by a librarian who runs a great blog (booksheleves of doom), and I cringed.
I'm pretty sure I first came here after that other site had already been created but it still gives me the motts when I see it mentioned.