ways of publicly registering your disdain?

[alexr_rwx]

If you have an issue with somebody at a fairly personal level, and you want to register your feelings publicly, you have a few options.

You could record a diss track. You could talk about how you're going to tear them apart at WrestleSituation N+1 during your next promo. But what are your other options?

Any thoughts, O readership?

Comments

[msbeanhead.livejournal.com]

I guess it depends on who you consider to be your "public"... but there are lots of social forums online where you can do the same sort of thing. I guess it doesn't work if you select one that the dissed person doesn't see.

I have heard about one new torture for middle/high school students is people creating YouTube videos about someone they don't like and then somehow promoting it to their peer group.

[kel-e-o.livejournal.com]

I recommend not handing personal conflicts on public forums... if that conflict could ever potentially be resolved and if the somebody is a decent person.

A lot of the people that I know tend to "vent" (and by "vent," I mean "bash") via their livejournals. So, not only does the offending person know, but all mutual friends who happen to be on livejournal know as well. I've also had someone put my telephone number in a classified ad. That was torture, but it probably counts as "retaliation" rather than "registering your feelings."

But, Alex, I can't imagine you being upset with anyone ever! Especially not upset enough to make a diss track.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Oh! Goodness. I don't have any particular need to diss anybody specific.

I was thinking of the diss track and the wrestling promo as ridiculous theatrical gestures -- not so much somebody personally getting hurt -- and I was wondering if there were any other analogous things in other fields. (Rappers and wrestlers are media entities, not people.)

But. Those both sound pretty painful. Hrm.

[cola-fan.livejournal.com]

I guess in scientific journals you have public rebuttal/position papers that usually are specific. That is kind of like a diss track. There are always blog posts, there were a few contentious posts last year in the MIR community surrounding the MIREX evaluations (music information retrieval shootouts).

The thought of you having a public feud is distressing, but then again it's probably the best method of self-promotion that exists.