Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Internet Message Board Trolls

People say "just ignore them". So you try.

And then they hassle you and hassle you, and harrass and borderline stalk you, escalating (sometimes to the point of destroying whole messageboards) until they've finally pissed you off. So you explode.

And then it's all "Bad Kate for responding!" rather than "Bad troll for being such a stalkerfreak in the first place."

Update:

When you ask them not to post gigantic 1000px pictures on your threads, they respond with "turn images off ::insult:: or get a bigger monitor". When you ask them not to sploodge your threads with several hundred identical posts in a row, they reply "what's wrong with your scrollbars ::insult::?"

What's wrong is WHY SHOULD HUNDREDS OF OTHER USERS ADJUST THEIR SETTINGS, CHANGE THEIR HARDWARE, THEIR COMPUTERS, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT CONTROL YOURSELF ENOUGH TO FOLLOW A FEW GUIDELINES OF SIMPLE NETIQUETTE?!?!?!?

The arrogance and the stupidity is just staggering.