I want my old Kottu!

We have had Chilli Chocolate, The Real Nibras Bawa, Padashow, Padashow's alter-Ego The Maharajah of Bad ...

Starting things off for us who choose to stand on the sidelines, we are able to watch and read with amusement the insults and counterattacks that are hurled at eachother like a ping pong ball speeding its way to the nether ends of a table tennis table!

Some of us bloggers get involved in the game and express our disdain or approval, condonement or disapproval from time to time. And this has gone on for some months on Kottu, with trolls occupying as much of the traffic as those of us who choose to blog seriously and systematically.

But today I was reading a few posts on some of the blogs belonging to the trolls mentioned above and I felt sick to the stomach at how low the persons maintaining these blogs have stooped. From outing to character assassination to blog analysis (which is getting quite tiresome now), the fun of this whole game seems to have waned off, virtually disappeared and all we get at the end of it is a spoilt sport show that gains absolutely nothing out of this whole exercise.

The funny thing is that there seems to be a new advent to the troll phenomenon. The "counter"-troll or "wanna-be" trolls have emerged out of nowhere and continue to creep into the nooks and corners of the blogsphere, feeding on the posts that others have put up on their respective blogs.

I long for the days when Kottu was clean and troll-free. When the blogsphere was a friendly, intelligent, INTERESTING place that held such comaraderie and sporting spirit among us bloggers.

Whatever happened to the Sri Lankan blogsphere? :( It's just not what it used to be.