I go to a news board site called Topix a lot. I have made friends there and I'm sure I have made enemies there, but that part doesn't bother me near as much as some of the folks we call trolls.
These trolls hide behind the fact that they can be anonymous and there for they can be hateful. They do it to feel better about themselves, they do it as a game to see if they can disrupt lives and get the boards off of the topics of the articles that we are talking about. They use facts that are pseudo-science to try backing up their "I can hate you because" routine. It makes me wonder just what kind of lives they have outside of harassing people on the news boards. Do they even have lives outside of the news boards?
I wonder how many news boards are like Topix, I know the Yahoo boards got really bad and were finally shut down because there was so much abuse of the TOS. I felt really bad when that happened, because there were so many interesting people to talk with.
I had been looking up news boards and because there are so many different types, I need to narrow down my search parameters. Trolls on news boards brought about this link:
http://tinyurl.com/8zkxqx
3,570,000 English pages for trolls on news boards . I don't know how many of these are actually about the trolls on news boards, but I'm betting a fair amount are.
So on to other things now that I've had my little rant about trolls and the internet.
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And the sad thing is, that, like the bible thumpers, chances are good that we'll never be rid of them especially since I suspect that some of them are actually psychic vampires able to feed over the internet.
ReplyDeleteSome may also be in the employ of the bible thumpers themselves hoping to suck out the energy of those of us who are fighting for whats right.
As to what theyre like offline, that would most likely depend on whether they were/are sociopathic or not in which case, if theyre not sociopathic then theyre most definatly hypocrites for wearing 2 faces.
Yep Rev., I think you have them pegged about the same way I have.
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