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I think there is an article in the news somewhere about a young person committing suicide after being bullied on Facebook. I didn't read the article; the headline depressed me enough. Some man is America recently murdered his wife, posted pics, and then turned himself in after saying "sorry" to his friends and he hoped they'd understand. Something like that. Ugh.
And yes, the comments on website for CNN and Yahoo news and others easily obtainable - some are despicable, and downright sick - and I think there is no moderation for some sites, things just get posted without being looked at before hand. So much trash. I try to avoid even glancing at comments any more.
Chilling. I moved from working in a school to the private sector for a number of reasons (one being http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/aug/17/language-teaching-crisis-universities-closure), but I could not stand the cutthroat, nasty environment. Some pupils were awful, some teachers were worse. The Wire's co creator Ed Burns said that his most difficult job was not being a Homicide police or a soldier during the first Iraq war, but a school teacher.
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I completely agree with you in this matter @thelivingroyale, people like hullcityfan are not trolls, just annoying kids. But that's an entirely different phenomenon.
Comments about my attempts to show how silly it is to rank everything, including trying to compare worldwide box office between now and 40 years ago (remember : even BoxOfficeMojo does not even try), even made the front page of this site with a derogatory comment ! It used the strawman tactics to claim that if I said it was silly to claim SF was #1, then I was an "old member" claiming TB should still be #1 and still living in the past and something like that...
In this period, I was flagged as soon as I posted two posts in a row, while other members of the "SF #1" crowd could post up to five in a row with no problems, and I'm not even talking about GG's huge lists full of inaccuracies he posted every two days with only one line changing !
Can't wait for 2015 : if Bond 24 is "only" the 9th movie at the US box office and 5th at the worldwide one or something like that, the same behaviour should end with people repeating every two minutes how "poor" it's doing. Will they then be labelled as "trolls" ? :)
The Web is a new thing really, it's like the Wild West. It's a lawless country so we make our own laws, but you get this painstaking, almost prim and Victorian-style good manners towards another stranger online you don't really know, or alternatively it's some weirdo out to shoot you down. The former is a kind of defence against the latter, a sign of just how shaky the social construct is.
So I think some trollery is a kind of reaction to this 'Hello trees, we are the world' slightly sentimental goodwill we get online towards each other and events, the kind of kid who jumps in the sandbox and messes things up. It's all highly primitive. And of course, consequence-free, like in the playground mostly, where you can call someone horrid names and so longs as teacher doesn't hear, all is well.
Yep, someone is mimicking other poster's usernames and making troll topics.
Is that meant to imply I'll be flagged again?
No. Just Flag the troll without commenting to them and you'll be fine. Besides, It's most likely the troll flagged you themselves to spite you. None of us on this forum would flag you for responding to a troll. Just Ignore Flag and Move on. it's that simple.
Absolutely. Was curious as to if I was the only one who was having connection problems to the forum or not.
Yes same here. Glad it's back up and running. Any official notification as to why the site was down?
Or as some old MI6'ers would say, due to an unpayed bill. ;)
Exactly. Don't respond to their threads nor on the activity page. No contact. This latest joker clearly has nothing to say, it appears that creating stupid thread titles is about as far as his brain is capable of working.