Shannon Jacobs wrote:
> Chimp wrote:
> 
>> This used to be such a useful newsgroup with such friendly banter.
>> Especially for those wanting to genuinely know about the things going
>> on in Japan believe it or not  It now has the misfortune of having
>> muppets posting all sorts of shite and irrelevant trash on it. Who is
>> that TXZZ muppet anyway? ......or is he a friend of yours??
> 
> 
> By "muppets" do you mean sock puppets? Anyway, LONG time ago when there 
> was much useful information to be found hereabouts. The friendliness was 
> also a transient stage, deteriorating into the usual closed and hostile 
> cliquishness. My current recommendation if you really want to know 
> what's going on in Japan is 2ch, but you have to write post-native 
> Japanese if you actually want to post there without provoking great 
> amusement. Still, even though they are also cliquish, they have the 
> redeeming feature of usually knowing what they are talking about.

"Cliquish" means everyone hates you.