Hey, Anonymous. Can we talk?

Hookay, so there's been some recent controversy on my friend Jaynie's blog. Someone called anonymous is obviously VERY upset with the e-pub world at large and willingly shares their strife publicly about any and all e-pubs within griping reach.

Anonymously, mind you...

It brings lot's of people out to defend or castrate e-pubs. Depending on your willingness to get on the popular boat (defending said e-pub) or be tied to the back of the popular boat (castrating said e-pub) and dragged naked through the sometimes choppy waters of the not so Love Boats territories -- it can become the battle royal.

Everyone loves a good controversy, yes?

It gives the anonymous griper a place to strike out and anyone else the op to jump on into the thick of the gripe and speak their piece.

And boy, do we ever jump. Some with both feet, some only dip a tentative toe into the pool of angst.

I dipped tentatively too, but I didn't do it anonymously. I did it with my name and pic. I also did it with enough objectivity to realize, business is business. It ain't always fair. Boo hoo.

It's the same old song, different tune. Someone's mad. That someone posts something angry and defensive so they can be "heard" in a cyber forum. Someone gets lots of people to act out in defense of or against their post.

My questions is this? Why not expend that energy elsewhere? Why not write a kick-ass book to rival all kick-ass books and beat the snot out of the karma you feel you've so unfairly been dealt? Become a best seller at the pub that's right for you and MOVE ON. Or you could mop a floor -- organize a closet -- alphabetically line up your canned goods...just a thought.

Surely, if you're not willing to give your name, you've done nothing but take secret joy out of watching this unfold. Well, what the hell kind of fun is that? To covertly post some pretty serious allegations and then, not be able to play? Isn't that a pin in your pot stirring bubble? I just know there's a name for this type of personality.

I admit, I'm very curious to know who anonymous is--who wouldn't be, especially in light of the fact that I've been (at one time or another), with some of the pubs anonymous so venomously slams. I'd love to know who this person is, the person willing to go a little of the road less traveled, but not all the way.

Would you be slitting your own wrists with every e-pub known to man if you revealed yourself? Yeah, probably, but what kind of retribution can you hope for if you do it anonymously? You can't tell anyone it's YOU. You can only garner secret, personal satisfaction with those who took your side. Isn't it a cold and lonely aisle to be in by yourself?

And if e-pubs are so horrific, why not find a new career?

Maybe writing isn't for you? Maybe breast implant sales is where your fame and fortune lies?

Maybe you've found fame and fortune in anonymity?

What's your scoop? I wanna know. Come tell me what you gain from this public outcry of favortism with an anonymous tagline. Does it make you feel better to have thrown your anger out there? Do you feel cleansed by it? Or is it frustrating as all hell to not be able to have the recognition you so clearly want and seek from a popular Internet figures blog?

I don't want to flay you--just understand why you're hellbent on career suicide and you've chosen this particular forum to tighten the noose. Because surely, you know, NO ONE is anonymous...In this day and age, with the Internet as a curious, fact seeking person's playground, NO ONE can hope not to remain anonymous for long...

So, talk to me :)

Dakota :)