If your being trolled; unfairly attacked or other sh!7...

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You can't be upset by someone if you don't give a damn.

I think it's good to debate and controversy is ok, but outright attacking someone is worth nothing.

Anyone who is found to be attacking someone else on WP will be shot through the Internet lol

ok.

How can you tell it's unfair? Don't you have that uncomfortable feeling that they're possibly right, that they may have a point, that they may have a very valid reason to despise you and express it in the most soul-crushing way, and that they can't be bothered to explain it to you because you're too stupid and not worth their time?

That's basically how I've felt every time someone attacked me since I was a little boy.

There's a difference between partaking in an online argument and people intentionally provoking others with inflammatory comments. The internet, in granting near-complete anonymity, has given people the excuse to act more maliciously towards others than they obviously would in real life without any fear of consequence. So yes, sometimes it can be just as much unfair as it is justified.

While I've never personally experienced trolling myself because I only rarely get into arguments online, I can't easily discredit the fact that some people, to quote Sinatra, will always get their kicks stompin' on a dream. This is why places like 4chan exist.

So, if the one attacking you wouldn't be afraid to insult you to your face, I guess it's perfectly fine. Might makes right after all.

A perfect example of the types of people I've referred to is this:

http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/2355

It gets pretty bad when forum members troll others not knowing what they deal with day in and day out. I was trolled a few days ago.

I can't remember anyone ever cowering before me, so I tend to view any harsh criticism I find online as coming from someone strong, mature and wise, who would have no trouble telling everything to my face, because it's not like I'd retaliate physically to their words.

I grew up with the strange idea that words are words, and, if you disagree, you just reply with words. It does feel nasty when others steer the conversation towards judging you, and you try desperately to defend yourself from their offhand accusations, to no avail, because they aren't bound by an obligation to be rational.

Only at a very embarrassingly late age did I realize that normal people never surrender their natural right to physically attack those who offend them, and that evading that fate by any means other than physically confronting them and disabling them, proving to be stronger, is cowardly.

I used to see no problem in expressing any kind of opinion, no matter how harsh, because others could just as easily point out the flaws in my reasoning or my false premises, and there could always be a civil discussion, just like I felt forced to answer civilly when I got called names. But no, people demand a chance to beat me up physically so force settles the matter. I never make such a demand, because I don't expect to be able to beat up anyone. In fact, I naïvely didn't put any effort on training myself for physical combat, because I didn't think it was so important.

Since I began to understand this, and read a bit about duelling, I've become much more wary of what I say online, how I phrase it, and, especially, any reference to other people. Probably not enough yet, even though I already feel quite intellectually smothered.

I just troll them back and make them rage quit!

What exactly IS "being trolled"?

If someone were to troll me what would it look like?

How ironic!

I guess now I know what "trolling" is!

I just witnessed one of the worst cases of trolling that I have ever seen on WP!

A certain person is hell bent on insulting the entire population of WP!

And that person is...oddly enough....the very OP of this thread!

Starfox herself announced that "most autistics are waste of resources" in the General Autism Forum.

If that isn't trolling then there is no such thing as trolling.

Then she cries, and pleads incompetence (claimed that she doesn't know a "better way to say it") when she got push back for it.

And then, when the thread got locked, she restarted the same thread (restarting a locked thread is specifically against the rules of WP). And she restarted it with virtually the same verbiage as before- which shows that it wasn't just incompentence. She could have either not restarted it, or restarted in a sly way by rephrasing it. But she did neither. So that shows an intent to troll.

Wow!

How do you have the nerve to complain about trolling, AND be a troll at the same time?