{"id":4484,"date":"2011-04-30T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2011-05-02T09:34:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:34:40","slug":"revenge-of-the-weird-angry-nerd-part-2-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the Weird, Angry Nerd: Part 2, “Busted!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Gawker<\/a><\/strong> April 15th, 2011<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>Dilbert Creator Pretends to Be His Own Biggest Fan on Message Boards<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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\"\" <\/a>Adrian Chen<\/a> \u2014\u00a0<\/a>Scott Adams, creator of the great comic strip\u00a0Dilbert<\/em>, is sort of a prick. He is a\u00a0horrible boss<\/a>, and recently penned a charming misogynist\u00a0rant<\/a> comparing women to children begging for candy. Now we learn he likes to bash critics on message boards under a pseudonym.
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For months, Adams has been pretending to be the world’s biggest Scott Adams fan under the handle “PlannedChaos.”<\/span> (Planned Chaos is a book by Austrian economist and libertarian hero\u00a0Ludwig von Mises<\/a>.) Today, he fessed up to his sockpuppetry.<\/p>\n

It started with a\u00a0thread<\/a> on link-sharing community MetaFilter about Adams’\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em> op-ed<\/a> on how awesome and successful he is even though he didn’t get straight-As in school. Some people said mean things about the article, suggesting Scott Adams wrote like someone who has “actually convinced himself\u2026 that he’s the smartest guy in the room.”<\/p>\n

That’s when\u00a0“PlannedChaos”<\/span><\/a> weighed in, furiously defending Adams:<\/p>\n

As far as Adams’ ego goes, maybe you don’t understand what a writer does for a living. No one writes unless he believes that what he writes will be interesting to someone. Everyone on this page is talking about him, researching him, and obsessing about him. His job is to be interesting, not loved. As someone mentioned, he has a certified genius I.Q., and that’s hard to hide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And when someone thought Adams was pumping himself up a little too much in the article, “PlannedChaos”<\/span> wrote:<\/p>\n

I assume you don’t hate all self-promoters, such as homeless people applying for jobs. Is it Adams’ enormous success at self-promotion that makes you jealous and angry?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This wasn’t Adams’ first time pretending to be his own fan. For months, he’s been commenting on threads about himself posted to link-sharing site Reddit under the same handle. Sample\u00a0comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If an idiot and a genius disagree, the idiot generally thinks the genius is wrong. He also has lots of idiot reasons to back his idiot belief. That’s how the idiot mind is wired.\u00a0It’s fair to say you disagree with Adams. But you can’t rule out the hypothesis that you’re too dumb to understand what he’s saying.\u00a0And he’s a certified genius. Just sayin’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just sayin’.<\/p>\n

After a number of MetaFilter users called him out today, Adams\u00a0confessed<\/a>, “I am Scott Adams.” Then he said goodbye: “I’m sorry I peed in your cesspool.” Metafilter users are currently engaging in a ritualistic shaming: “This is a wonderful example of how to take a garden-variety fail like a slightly dumb WSJ OpEd and turn it into an epic fail,” wrote Lodurr.\u00a0Adams also confirmed that he was PlannedChaos<\/span> to MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey, who has this to say when we contacted him: “Our policy is that identity in the community is really important and we don’t like people duping the entire userbase.”<\/p>\n

Nothing like a supremely self-satisfied dolt making a fool of himself by posting fake stuff on the Internet. There’s actually a funny Dilbert\u00a0strip<\/a> about this sort of thing.<\/p>\n

[Photo of Adams via AP<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From Gawker April 15th, 2011 Dilbert Creator Pretends to Be His Own Biggest Fan on Message Boards Adrian Chen \u2014\u00a0Scott Adams, creator of the great comic strip\u00a0Dilbert, is sort of a prick. He is a\u00a0horrible boss, and recently penned a charming misogynist\u00a0rant comparing women to children begging for candy. Now we learn he likes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[441,438,439,440,433,432],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dilbert-creator-idiot","tag-dilbert-creator-lunatic","tag-scott-adams-aspergian","tag-scott-adams-hates-women","tag-scott-adams-obama","tag-scott-adams-racist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}