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by loudmax 1504 days ago
My favorite occurrence of "asshat" was by Metafilter moderator jessamin in 2006 justifying her decision to remove a comment. A bad argument made in good faith deserves a response, but trolling does not. Jessamin said that when she deletes a troll comment she didn't see the necessity in writing a letter explaining why:

Dear asshat, you're being an asshat. I deleted your asshat comment. Please stop the asshattery. Love, jessamin

This non-letter was set to music by her Metafilter co-moderator cortex: https://music.metafilter.com/480/Please-Stop-The-Asshattery