Honestly I have to come to expect the trolling to the point I only peek my head in certain sites to test the waters. I don't enjoy the unpleasantness and it's not worth it.
For me it isn't so much the trolls that bother me. I can ignore them. But then there are the troll baiters who just like to play poke-a-troll and watch it scream. They are trolls as well IMO. So childish.
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. A block on any speech is a block on all speech. (Excluding where danger and violence is being openly promoted and is an immediate danger.)
Trolls, haha. A troll is a fictional creature. It's only been coined by someone in this context as they can obviously think of no better description. It's like people using the word kids for children.
QFT. This guy though, if he made threats, should get deleted. But I get where you're coming from -- I want plots in my comics, not politics. This though seems to be around the edges of the comic forums, so I don't mind a smackdown on persistent harassers...
He was making threats against people not just being a run of the mill troll. I think the article may not have stated that strongly enough for some people. Either way it was mentioned all over the comments section. The whole look at my divisive opinion in the comments schtick gets a little old.
The Newsroom had a great scene on trolls (I believe in the episode "Bullies"). Basically, Will McAvoy went on a rant about how the majority are cowards who hide behind the illusion of safety that comes with anonymity. I guarantee a vast majority these people would never act in such a manner when discussing something face-to-face.
Depends on the person, When I was on yahoo ( which is a voice chatroom ) about 5 years ago I was drunk and had someone threaten me and my family and I shot my gun off and like 5 minutes later the police banged on my door and had their fire arms out and told me to get my hands up and then they sent me to a hospital and like 4 hours later I got released.
So instead of coming to mess with my family the gun shot scared them so badley they called the police on me... trust me the majority of people who do talk crap on here are cowards..... If they had your address they wouldnt do squat, people online have had my address for about 7 years and I still aint got one knock...lol
I'm all for freedom of speech but it becomes a problem when you actually threaten a person through any medium be it in person or over the internet. Harassment and threats are not things to be taken lightly. I spent most of my time in middle school and high school being threatened by bullies and more than half of them had lockers searched for weapons and were even suspended from school. My point is that there is a line and it's obvious that this guy crossed it one too many times.
Freely exchanging and expressing ideas and opinions is one thing. Simulating the felony assault of a woman offends simple, human decency.
It's somehow become acceptable for people on the Internet to be disrespectful, tasteless, and hateful. It's the reason no one likes to read YouTube comments (or the comments on almost any web page).
This is the only online community in which I choose participate because it actively enforces a code of conduct.
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