Busted! Mysogynist Gilbert creator pretends to be his own biggest fan online

[Liberal_in_LA]

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

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:

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After 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.

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[ZombieHorde]

1. That is pretty funny. nt

[Buzz Clik]

2. I like Dilbert. Gilbert, not so much.

[enki23]

3. Fecking hilarious.

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[onehandle]

4. I worked with the man that the 'pointy haired boss' was supposedly based on.

This was after Adams had left the world of the cubicle.

He was a really nice guy. Scott Adams is a dick.

[Canuckistanian]

5. That's sad

Scott Adams said what we were all thinking in the tech world.

Too bad he turned out to be a dick.