True, Mignonette.
I imagine it seems very cosy and insular living in a virtual world where people trip over themselves to applaud or defend everything you ever say, however crass and it MUST be a shock to them that actually, not everyone thinks you're all that great.
Can you imagine on MN, if every post in AIBU telling an OP that they were in no uncertain terms BU got deleted and only the fawning posts were left to stand? It would be like Nethuns.
That's what IK's world is like. Nethuns but with lots of Bombay Duck accessories and slightly better grammar.