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[CJ1145]

Someone needs to make Armok's avatar with an evil mustache.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Someone needs to make Armok's avatar with an evil mustache.

I recommend that you stop right there. We have had this before, and it didn't end pretty.

Rather than the issue of trolls, we might wish to wonder about the issue of bullying, which seems to be much more present here on the forums than any serious trolling (partly because the few trolls that invade get shown to the door relatively quickly).

Deathworks

[nenjin]

Bullying isn't the right word either, at least from what I've seen. Bullying is sending people PMs, organizing hate groups to get around their block/mute lists, and generally torturing them through the Internet. Bullying is something you can't escape from.

The rest is just good old fashion forum dickery. People should have to sign a disclaimer before signing on to the net for the day, that they accept responsibility for their opinions, and accept that some people will dislike them for said opinions or how they're phrased. That way, we could skip all the butt hurtness, and people could argue and debate free of the notion that the Internet is somehow supposed to be a nicer place than the real world. It's not.

The Internet is high school x5, and you either survived high school to go on and become semi-abnormal like the rest of humanity, or you start shooting people.

[Bandages]

The Internet is high school x5, and you either survived high school to go on and become semi-abnormal like the rest of humanity, or you start shooting people.

All high school graduates are abnormal.

._. I feel bullied.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I get that Armok is weird, but I don't know why (or maybe I haven't been around enough) to see why everyone's turned him into the forum punching-bag. Seems a little cruel given all the strangeness we all have.

Heck, even the weeaboo touhous and furries have gotten less hate on this site.

I'm guessing it's related to Life Advice since I don't really go in there.

[Bandages]

I get that Armok is weird, but I don't know why (or maybe I haven't been around enough) to see why everyone's turned him into the forum punching-bag.

Heck, even the weeaboo touhous and furries have gotten less hate on this site.

I'm guessing it's related to Life Advice since I don't really go in there.

Well I don't know if I've ever had a conversation with Armok, and I have nothing against him whatsoever. From my observation though, most people make fun of his less-than-steller spelling and the fact he says things like "Saphira [from Eragon] is hot". To each their own.

[ChairmanPoo]

I have said it in the past, and I say it again now: I very much suspect that Armok's antics and bad spelling are an act.

[Grakelin]

Hi!

Someone needs to make Armok's avatar with an evil mustache.

I recommend that you stop right there. We have had this before, and it didn't end pretty.

Rather than the issue of trolls, we might wish to wonder about the issue of bullying, which seems to be much more present here on the forums than any serious trolling (partly because the few trolls that invade get shown to the door relatively quickly).

Deathworks

Now you're just being an annoying crybaby. If you're being bullied on an anonymous net forum, it's because you deserve it.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Now you're just being an annoying crybaby. If you're being bullied on an anonymous net forum, it's because you deserve it.

This isn't 4chan. We're not really anonymous here, and I'm fairly sure that that's the sort of attitude that most of us don't harbor.

[Bandages]

Now you're just being an annoying crybaby. If you're being bullied on an anonymous net forum, it's because you deserve it.

This is actually perfect example of trolling. Saying someone "deserves it" and that anonimity makes it okay. There is no reason to bully someone, whether or not they are an "annoying crybaby", which I personally do not think Deathworks was being.

[PTTG??]

It's summer. All the 14-year-olds are out of school. It'll be bad for a couple weeks or maybe months more, but it'll steady off eventually.

[G-Flex]

There's almost no way it's an act. He acts like that everywhere I've seen him, even when it would have been extremely inconvenient for him to do so.

Bullying isn't the right word either, at least from what I've seen. Bullying is sending people PMs, organizing hate groups to get around their block/mute lists, and generally torturing them through the Internet. Bullying is something you can't escape from.

The rest is just good old fashion forum dickery. People should have to sign a disclaimer before signing on to the net for the day, that they accept responsibility for their opinions, and accept that some people will dislike them for said opinions or how they're phrased. That way, we could skip all the butt hurtness, and people could argue and debate free of the notion that the Internet is somehow supposed to be a nicer place than the real world. It's not.

The Internet is high school x5, and you either survived high school to go on and become semi-abnormal like the rest of humanity, or you start shooting people.

There's a difference between disliking people, disagreeing with their opinions, and being a dick about it.

If the Internet is "high school x5", then people have some serious growing up to do.

Now you're just being an annoying crybaby. If you're being bullied on an anonymous net forum, it's because you deserve it.

First off, there's a difference between anonymity and pseudonymity, but that's another ball of wax.

Secondly, if you seriously think that anyone being harassed by people on the Internet is harassed because they "deserve it", then, well, see my comment above about needing to grow up. Not to mention you'd be breaking forum guidelines, but I guess you don't care much for that either.


Seriously, Armok's a weird guy, and he's got problems, especially socially. I've ribbed him on it before, usually in the "teaching him a lesson" tough-love sort of way, like when he tried to get me to work around a mute for him. This isn't to say I should have, but there's a difference between a little bit of joshing around and harassing the poor guy just because you don't like him.


A lot of people on the Internet do, in fact, act like immature dicks. This in itself is reasoning why people who get bullied often don't deserve it. Not that "bullying" ever really helps the situation anyway except to drive someone away pitchforks-and-torches style.

[Bandages]

It's summer. All the 14-year-olds are out of school. It'll be bad for a couple weeks or maybe months more, but it'll steady off eventually.

How does that have anything to do with anything? I've seen very few new members on these forums for one, and another is that we HAVE younger members on these forums that are just as good of contributors and friends as the older members.

Ageism is pretty ignorant, if you ask me. But you didn't, so it doesn't matter.

[Grakelin]

You guys can act as haughty as you like, but nobody on this forum knows what anybody else looks like in real life, or what their personal habits are, and we only know about their political and religious views in a few cases. If people are 'bulliyng' you here, it's because of your personality on the forum.

[G-Flex]

You guys can act as haughty as you like, but nobody on this forum knows what anybody else looks like in real life, or what their personal habits are, and we only know about their political and religious views in a few cases. If people are 'bulliyng' you here, it's because of your personality on the forum.

Again, it's completely foolish and ignorant to think that if people see your behavior as something to bully you about, then you must deserve it. This wasn't true in the fucking third grade and it isn't true here. People harass others over really stupid things sometimes, regardless of context.