Trolling and other 'bad' behavior.

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yep - PMS comes in useful, now and again.....

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Is it wrong to have a good discussion?
I think it is alot better then solving your differences by physical means.

I also think that sending posts out just to recieve a certain emotional response from only certain people is being a bully. Is that trolling?

Otherwise what I like to do is open up controversial topics to open up peoples minds to what they believe in. I like the controversial topics because it brings out many different sides of the same issue and overal, a good discussion.

I still feel some form of attachment to my moral standing and it becomes a war or battle. I also still get a "rush" out of speaking about politics in favor of my morality. Just like someone can get a rush out of playing hockey I think anyone can get a rush out of speaking as well.

Don't think that your debating with the person, but debating your view vs their view.

Today I replied to the diary entry of someone on Kuro5hin: I Voted Early (J T MacLeod). My reply was heavily sarcastic, but that's standard fare on K5:

Congratulations!

I got banned from hurricane boards alot because I dont like NHC and like accuwx better. My forecast this season has been better then NHC.

Tom, that may be true... but it goes further than that. You have been banned from (tropical) weather boards because you say just about every storm is going to be a major.

The National Hurricane Center has the official forecasts and inevitably has the best tropical weather forecasters on the planet. This part of meteorology is the most difficult to forecast.

Their intensity forecast suck. Charley was a major when passing by the Keys yet they kept it at cat2 when recon supported cat3. Ivan was stronger then 135 during the afternoon before landfall.

I used to be rude; sometimes intentionally but other times unintentionally. I try not to be now; other than to really obnoxious people who deserve it.

I've been banned from forums for trolling and got myself hated in others for my rather blunt opinions.

In general, normal people piss me off. I think they're ignorant. Alot of forum behaviour I think is stupid and I won't hesitate to say so.

I'm known as the opinionated person. I've completley ditched a forum I used to go to because the people were so false it made me sick.

chamoisee wrote:

This is another factor that we should consider when we troll to prove we exist. Why must we prove our existance in such a way that we know will result in a negative response? I say "we" because I seem to do this in life, also. I respond to people at home & work sometimes knowing the response will be one that will put me in a defense-type mode rather than just keeping my opinion to myself. Sometimes it's not even my opinion, I'm just trying to play "the devils advocate" to make a conversation "more lively" at least, I think that's what I'm doing. Is it perhaps that I know I'm going to be ridiculed for my stand but it seems more comfortable for me to have the majority upset and mad at me? Do I get in these situations because I feel safer in this kind of situation? I have a hard time knowing how to react when the crowd is with me not against me. I'm used to being the underdog, I suppose.

Same here. I've gotten kicked off of several forums for blunt and rude comments before I knew I had AS. Now I know why I have gotten kicked off. I read a book on AS that stated that we will say unsensitive things to people in order to receive a response.

It's frustatrating because I now see myself as a condition. Things I use to think make me unique I see now as a symptom of a disease.

Yeah, but you would have to speak French to do that.

This board is pretty civil compared to some that I have been on, especially given its large size. But the threads are more fragmented. Is that from the size, the nature of AS, or both?

A very long time ago (before there'd even be record of it), I used to post things that I'm sure were considered trolling. Didn't mean to though.

When I was 14, I used to troll in a forum and a chatroom, then I got bored because people was very stupid, they always got caught in my tricks and I always had better answers

I haven't trolled since that time.

I've never trolled, but I used to write really inflammatory letters to newspapers under "name & address supplied"!

I used to troll forums and also cheat team kill on online games several years ago. It was my way of lashing out at people, my hate was festering inside me. I wasn't doing it for fun, I was purposely trying to make people have a bad time. I was in a bad rut then, I didn't have the guts to do anything cruel in the real world. So I did it on the internet. However it never made me feel better, it only made me feel worse. I always felt real bad for ruining people's time afterwards. Plus during my trolling, the hate towards me chipped away further at any dignity I have left, deepening my distress.

Don't feed trolls, you could be doing more damage to that person than you realize.