True enough. I guess if you spend enough time pretending to be a certain person you might one day wake up and realise that that is who you became. :p
It's more the fun to time ratio. Investing a little time into a troll produces hilarious results at times, but if you're going into months and years to set one up it's showing a very dark, sad side to you that completely defeats the purpose.
If this guy, or anyone else, trolls me after creating such a back history for doxxing to find, then I don't care being taken. It's no skin off my nose and the jokes on them.
I only respond because I want this thread to stop.
And responding in the way you do only continues it, because of how you approach doing that. How you do it not only gets a laugh here and encourages others to pester you, you do it in a way that underlines your immaturity.
Whether or not you are who you are, I don't care. Fact is making a big deal of yourself annoys people and encourages them to take you down a peg and that's what you're doing here, a forum that is especially acerbic and combative. Best thing you can do is be casual his insults and be understating about things about yourself that gets the information across and doesn't do so in a way that puts your neck in noose when it annoys others.
Why?, because we have opposing views and I am my own person, you are not me, you shouldn't judge me, so leave me alone.
How is that grounds for someone to not judge you? Why is judgement so wrong?
I find that sentiment amusing these days because both that word and discrimination have taken on negative connotation when mere decades ago they were positive things that reflected a sharp, discerning mind.
I'm reminded of an old coffee add from, I think Folgers's Crystals, which appealed to a persons ego by saying discriminating coffee lovers preferred their stuff. The use of that word, and judgement as well, not to long ago meant someone with a good eye that was smart and had standards, which I guess the underlying sentiment these days, is for people to not be those things because it makes others feel bad, which is crap.
Opposing views doesn't mean one shouldn't judge. That I am not you, doesn't mean one shouldn't judge you. That you demand people shouldn't judge you doesn't mean one shouldn't judge you. Everybody likes to talk about shit like rights these days, plastering that label on everything, but the fact is, things like judgement go beyond that kind of thing, it's what we all do innately are living beings and you right now today and constantly making judgements about others without realizing it.
It isn't wrong to judge, it's how we handle our conclusions and try not to stray into being overcritical, which this board as a whole has at times falling into petty snobbery. To be without judgement is to have no sense and be a blind fool.
But back at hand, you need to elaborate exactly why people shouldn't judge you - does it make you feel bad? If so why? Is it over things you feel you have no control over? If so why? You're going to have to think about those because just yelling at people to not judge isn't going to warm their hearts and it most likely going to get them spiteful and doing it simply because you commanded them not to in a recalcitrant way.
Leave you alone? AFAIK, you're the one that came to this board and spilled your private details about your sexual problems on here. Why should others leave you alone when you made it clear you don't want to be left alone?
If you all were truly mature, then you wouldn't make fun of me and harass me.
This site is about something which is pretty much a lingering interest from our childhood. No matter how people try to treat the subjects on here in a mature manner, the zeitgeist of this place is one that mirrors being a kid arguing over things we like and like differently. It's also a place to relax, and on top of that, vent about shit that pisses each of us off, which given the way message boards go, has evolved something of a common consensus in many places, and it seems that for many, the things you constantly bring up about your private life, and the way you handle your reactions to them, are issues many find a common thing to grind on about, if only in this thread.
Please, forget I ever came to this website and go back to talking about TES and skyrim.
Again, you command without winning even a ounce of respect from people here to do so.
You cannot demand that of people, all you can do is focus on what you control and that is to simply stop posting here for a long while and let this topic die.
Please, leave me alone. If there is someone in charge, please delete this thread or the last few pages of posts and just leave me alone.
Site doesn't work that way. As immature a ton as the board has, the unspoken assumption is that we're all old and mature enough to handle whatever comes our way here and either deal with it or ignore it. No one will coddle you here, and if anyone did, it would only make you more of a target.
I leave and yet you continue to talk about and make fun of me, please I'm begging you, if anyone here has any sense of compassion what so ever, please, leave me alone.
Yes, because you keep coming back. If you're saying you're leaving, walk out the door only to peek an eye through the crack to see what we're talking about, then you haven't left at all.
I'll also remind you that this is something kids do. A child worries about what others think of them to this degree, an adult doesn't give a fuck because they've live long enough to be sure of themselves or aware enough to hide their vulnerabilities from the scrutiny of a message board.
I don't expect this comment to do anything, but just please leave me alone and stop talking about me.
No comment will accomplish that, only your long term absence will.
So what exactly would you call this moment if not naive?
Anyway troll or not, I wish you teh best. Don't take the interwebs so seriously.
I call it desperation.
I just want to be left alone, I don't take criticism easily, I don't like being harassed, please just leave me alone.
Edit: One more thing.
I have a little fact about life: No one takes criticism easily, to being with. The only way we gain a thick skin and learn to deal with others having an opinion about things different from our own is to expose ourselves to said opinions and take our time to focus on how we react and change that reaction.
Coddling yourself far away from criticism will keep you from that pain, but that pain will come right back the moment you leave that little safe space, and you'll do so at an age where people will find handling criticism poorly less excusable than if you were a kid who is expected to be too ignorant to know any better.
And yes, the fundamental quality of a child is to be naive and ignorant, you haven't lived long enough to wisen up. It has little to do with intelligence and everything to do with the W word I just used - wisdom, which cannot be taught in any classroom or by any teacher, it comes with time.
So save yourself a lot of trouble later, and spoon feed yourself opinions that you don't like. If you don't you'll be suffering from the mental equivalent of saving to do hard manual labour with uncalloused hands that haven't done a days work - they'll bleed rivers of blood.
I want this thread to stop, but I also want the people posting to stop talking about me.
Then stop talking to them!
For the rest reading the post, I find a calm, dissecting manner the best approach to dealing with a suspected troll. Whether they are one or not, it doesn't wind up being too overly harsh with someone if they're genuine, while it robs the troll of what they come looking for, drama and riling
you up - a step to be taken before refusing a trolls bait is to offer them a fish they find unpalatable.
to catch up to here, it seems.
