Today I learned Makeshift exists. Thanks!

I clicked on this comment thread with some trepidation, fully expecting to encounter some tiresome scolding from the current incarnation of that one commenter we have all come to know and love, raindrop. And much to my surprise, there was no comment. And then I went back and searched a bit, and whaddaya know, all the comments from this latest incarnation of that individual had vanished. raindrop redux was mercifully short-lived.

Now, this is not to say that I am here to endorse Bill Hinker's artistic endeavors. I hate seeing the usual thoughtless tagging one normally encounters, which this is clearly not. I'll admit I'm ambivalent about graffiti like this which aspires to some sort of humor or humanity or happiness. But more to the point, it's just not something I am worked up enough about to form a well-formed opinion on and to feel the need to share that opinion in a public forum. I don't feel the compulsion to be going around scolding and passing judgment on all I survey.

Unfortunately, the commenter formally known as raindrop offered no real humor or humanity or happiness to go along with their relentless need to mark their moral territory, whether one might or might not agree. Really, it was the virtual equivalent of the most mindless markings that normally come to mind when we do think of tagging.

Correction: "the commenter formally known as raindrop" -> "the commenter formerly known as raindrop."

And to express what I was saying @2 in a nutshell, the artist formerly known as raindrop was the real tagger. (But unlike the work of IRL taggers, we can see that raindrop's artwork can be readily removed. No chemical agents required.)