Blocked?

A few months ago, I hit the next blog button and found a blog. Not just the most fantastic blog I have ever read, but written by a guy who seemed nice enough. So I left a few comments and got in the habit of reading his blog.

I also got into the habit of reading the blogs of some of his other readers. I left some comments on those blogs as well. The nice enough guy soon stopped blogging after that.

Most of my comments then switched to another blog, written by a not so nice guy. Or at least that is what it seems when you read his blog. One of the other bloggers who knows the guy in real life says he's not so bad.

Well, I guess I assumed that. I guess I assumed that no one was really that much of an ass. (A dumb thing for me to assume given what happened to me last year, but that's what I thought.) Or, at least, I thought that no one would be so openly proud of being that much of an ass. (Again, that was a dumb thing for me to assume, but that's what I thought.) I just figured this was a totally made up asshole persona, solely invented to get the ball rolling on whatever he was blogging about that day.

But I guess I was wrong. He seemed to go out of his way to insult people, some of whom he did not know, and often on areas that had nothing to do with the subject of the blog post. Whatever. I still liked leaving comments, and the other people leaving comments were fun to read, so I kept reading.

Then he started complaining about what the readers were saying about him, about back stabbers, and about how unfairly he'd been treated. Hard to believe this is a serious statement being made by a grownup. If you act like an ass, people will treat you like an ass. Get over it.

But I still half believed that this was all pretend.

So he announced that he would stop blogging. And he was going to stop leaving comments on other people's blogs. He had better things to do with his time, and he didn't like the way he was being treated.

Whatever.

So I kept reading three of the blogs he used to leave comments on. Those seem to be written by nice enough people. And they usually do not go into this childish rant if someone says something that they don't like.

Less than a month went by, and the asshole announced that he would start blogging again. Great. Not that I miss him as a person, but the discussions were fun, or at least reading other people's comments was fun.

Two days after he is back, I find I am not allowed to read his blog anymore. It is for members only.

Is he for real? I am blocked on purpose? Or is this just one of those things that accidentally happens between new blogger and old version blogger?

Whatever.