"Intershunning" -- a concept needed by the Internet!

[alfreda89]

Amy Sterling Casil, an interesting person and excellent writer, has come up (we think) with the word that can eliminate ever again naming a troll: intershunning. Use it well!

http://asterling.typepad.com/incipit_vita_nova/2008/05/intershunning.html

A snip:

"I select carefully who and what I cover -- and now I'm formalizing my policy. If I don't like what you do, how you do it -- and above all, feel that you are abusive of others, either by taking economic advantage of them, or you're just a bottom-feeding piece of stinking biofilm, I'll be intershunning you."

Comments

[incandragon.livejournal.com]

Darn skippy!

[asterling.livejournal.com]

Kathi -- I broke my rule already. One of the people I thought it was appropriate to Intershun was Lori Drew, the adult woman who thought up the scheme to manipulate a young neighbor girl that ended up costing the girl her life (she committed suicide - in October 2006). Nothing happened to the Drew woman all this time except the town shunned her and her family, which gave me the "intershunning" idea. I think eventually, they moved or were forced to move (I do feel sorry for her daughter, who was encouraged to do this by her mother - and the rest of the family, who may have had no idea). But I put her name today because she was just indicted by the Los Angeles Grand Jury for these internet crimes!!! (It occurred in Missouri, I believe, but apparently the grand jury could look into it due to the internet nature of the situation). They actually indicted her. Somebody actually did something!!