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.
Nor do I. But I appreciate Graelkin's point. People have a hard time hearing how others really feel on the Internet, especially when that feeling might be "oh just shut the fuck up." Personally, I've come to cherish those rare moments of honesty.
Because really, why does anyone need to be nice to you for your own sake on the Internet? They don't. Anonymity, while being the key to being a total prick, is also the key to real honesty. I've learned a ton about myself as a person and as a personality thanks to the Internet, because some just straight up told me how I was seen. And they didn't do it nicely. But that's why it stuck. That's why it became a lesson. And sure, some of those people are assholes and were just being assholes...but many of them were not.
So I draw a pretty steep distinction between 'bullying' 'trolling' and 'being brutally honest.'
Accusing someone of trolling is often just an admission that you can't handle what's being said to you, or about you. Really trolling? Really trolling is walking into a random forum and posting "you're all fags." THAT'S trolling. All this wishy washy 'trolling is when you hurt someone's feelings' wah wah wah is just a defense, trying to cast someone making you feel bad in a negative light. People need to grow a set of reproductive organs, and a spine, and save the "ur trolling me" comments for the people that really deserve them, and try actually learning something from the rest.
If the Internet is "high school x5", then people have some serious growing up to do.
Maybe, maybe not. If you stick ~30 adults of totally different backgrounds in a room, lock them in there and have them talk about their opinions for 2 hours a day, guess what, it looks like the Internet. People are dicks. People use shame and anger to make a point. Some stay out of it. Some rise above it. That's practically what high school is, forced socialization. The only difference is we CHOOSE to be here.
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.
It could be ignorant to think you DON'T deserve something too, even when you totally do. No one likes being called out, especially when the person calling you out is RIGHT.