How many folks don't post because of trolls? How many of these "almost posters" would be wonderful online thinkers if they weren't "sensitive" to troll attacks? 1000 members here...could be many who lurk but do not post because of troll fears. Maybe those sensitive to attacks are just the very sort of persons who could be "delicate" enough to help us explore the gentle nuances that trolls are generally incapable of appreciating. We may not know what we're missing -- whom have the trolls have "scared off?"
I've gone dark and I've gone light. Not being obviously enlightened, I'm identifying with both sides of me when they "hold sway," but I think I'm "safely" detached from most of my words, just because I write for hours every day and I am, ahem, well, I feel I am an artist with them and that I'm trying for cognitive and emotional "effects" in the minds of readers. I'm not screaming my lungs out and stomping baby ducks under my desk when I type the words, ya know? I have a common real world life without rants and fist fights and constant skirmishing. Here, I'm forced to be a gladiator even if I merely want to talk about gladiolas. My use of swear words and emotionally triggering concepts is done purposefully. I have bigass feelings when I'm attacked in public, and when the other posters here are merely mildly amused at my distress when I am slandered, well, I feel I have to show them how easily they too can be offended by language and symbols. That's what I'm talking about: the overt attempts by trolls to produce negative feelings inside nervous systems. If others are too "scarred and calloused" by this long-allowed-here abuse to recognize my travail, then maybe my over the top responses to trolls can reawaken in the passive-types a sense of how much trolls are guilty of a vile and arbitrary effrontery if I parody, indulge and use the same "weaponry." I think of myself as a "good guy," so yeah, I'm cringing when I click on the send button knowing what a foul mouthed angsty mess of puke I have sent. But I'm fighting fire with fire. As a true believer for decades, I know the cost of being passive when trolls and bureaucrats get away with, well, EVERYTHING. Not me anymore. If you want to lay down in life and, in some twisted sense of being democratic, let trolls besmirch every sort of goodness that could happen here, well, don't expect me to think you're "being fair." I see you being "me" when I was taking it up the yin and preventing myself from letting my yang have at the rapists. In the real world, these trolls would not have the guts to say a single one of their crappy thoughts aloud without risking a broken nose. Me neither, but here, I'm expected to let any skank or simp spit on me and my mind and my concepts with ad hominems and gross aggravations. And, if I don't lay down for this abuse and if I don't have a smug smile of beyondness when trolls attack, then I'm not being a gentleman, and I'M THE ONE SPOILING THE ATMOSPHERE HERE? Now that's funny! In the film, Johnny Dangerously they have this character who is constantly swearing but he cannot speak English very well, so he's saying things like "fargin ice holes" and "cork suckers." Very funny stuff actually. But let me tell you, if only swear words are forbidden, why I and any troll can run circles around that intent and attack back without the least need for a $*%# or a &[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't even need to speak real English to get my point across. "Judas ewe pig or ant slug. Eye swill sew stump yon yule aft jew tack meat." I don't have to sepll crroctly eether. No end to the ways to cheat any system. THAT'S what the trolls know. They can get folks angry no matter the rules. That's why we need a priest or warden or cop to see the EMOTIONAL crime no matter the garb or packaging. I volunteer to be the cop. And let's what happens. If I abuse my role, then I'm tossed. But if Fairfield Life becomes an Eden of Conceptual Delights, if posters come forward with their hearts on their sleeves, I'll consider it a victory. Again, who here would post a love poem or pictures of their families etc.? Who would put their precious parts on display here? I would if there was a good cop on the corner bracing the punks against the wall and letting them know what for and how to conduct themselves in our decent neighborhood. Edg
