Remember Scott Adams vs. Men's Rights? Scott's been secretly posting on reddit as his own fan (not here though.)

AnnArchist · 2011-04-16T00:38:15+00:00

Is it just me or does this make him look really really small.

2011-04-16T01:31:27+00:00

Why read Dilbert when we have XKCD? I don't.

pakmanishere · 2011-04-15T21:34:37+00:00

I really think he's just trolling for attention. It's better not to give it to him, he's a rather sad and arrogant dick.

maidenfan2358 · 2011-04-15T23:22:42+00:00

Hello guys, I too am Scott Adams.

powerpiglet · 2011-04-15T23:30:22+00:00

Wow. That guy needs some new hobbies.

nikdahl · 2011-04-16T04:07:05+00:00

Are we still posting links to gawker?

masonmason22 · 2011-04-16T10:28:28+00:00

I think he's in here downvoting everyone by the looks....

spookybill · 2011-04-16T16:38:06+00:00

http://www.reddit.com/user/plannedchaos

2011-04-17T02:58:37+00:00

is there any reason that we're giving adrian chen page views? next thing you know we'll be considering him a legitimate columnist.

Dilbert Creator Pretends to Be His Own Biggest Fan on Message Boards

Scott Adams, creator of the great comic strip Dilbert, is sort of a prick. He is a horrible boss, and recently penned a charming misogynist rant comparing women to children begging for candy. Now we learn he likes to bash critics on message boards under a pseudonym.

For months, Adams has been pretending to be the world's biggest Scott Adams fan under the handle "PlannedChaos." (Planned Chaos is a book by Austrian economist and libertarian hero Ludwig von Mises.) Today, he fessed up to his sockpuppetry.

It started with a thread on link-sharing community MetaFilter about Adams' Wall Street Journal op-ed 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… that he's the smartest guy in the room."

That's when "PlannedChaos" weighed in, furiously defending Adams:

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.

And when someone thought Adams was pumping himself up a little too much in the article, "PlannedChaos" wrote:

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?

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 comment:

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.

It'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.

And he's a certified genius. Just sayin'.

Just sayin'.

Dilbert Creator Pretends to Be His Own Biggest Fan on Message BoardsAfter a number of MetaFilter users called him out today, Adams confessed, "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.

Adams also confirmed that he was PlannedChaos 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."

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 strip about this sort of thing.

2011-04-16T06:48:17+00:00

Successful man is successful. Lucky man is lucky.

zarx · 2011-04-16T01:19:40+00:00

I think it's a riot that he's doing this. More power to him.

mannatee · 2011-04-16T03:11:56+00:00

I think we are forgetting here that Scott has a genius IQ..just saying

2011-04-16T00:20:08+00:00

Hahaha great guy. I won't buy any of his stuff though. I'm concerned with my own profit.

Title	Remember Scott Adams vs. Men's Rights? Scott's been secretly posting on reddit as his own fan (not here though.)
Author	phlake14222
Upvotes	40
Comments	21
Date	April 15, 2011 9:29 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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