Internet trolls: What to do about the scourge of the Web?

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Re: Internet trolls: What to do about the scourge of the Web

Post by FBM » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:58 pm

Audley Strange wrote:I don't see why I should be obligated to behave to an arbitrary subjective standard based on each individual's level of emotional tolerance.
What's arbitrary about it? :tea:
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Re: Internet trolls: What to do about the scourge of the Web

Post by laklak » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:02 pm

Track them down, drug them, take them 20 miles out in the Gulf, wrap them in a fishing net weighted with concrete blocks, wait for them to wake up and lower them slowly into the water till their face is maybe 6 inches below the surface, then make faces at them while fucking their wife's severed head.

Works for me.
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laklak wrote:Track them down, drug them, take them 20 miles out in the Gulf, wrap them in a fishing net weighted with concrete blocks, wait for them to wake up and lower them slowly into the water till their face is maybe 6 inches below the surface, then make faces at them while fucking their wife's severed head.

Works for me.
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Post by laklak » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:07 pm

Extremism in the defense of online machismo is no vice.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by FBM » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:09 pm

Mmm....but that's what the trolls are doing...
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Post by laklak » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:11 pm

Trolls talk, manly men DO.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by FBM » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:18 pm

laklak wrote:Trolls talk, manly men DO.
Yeah. Fuck 'em with a football bat. All of 'em.
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Post by pErvinalia » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:19 pm

:lol: I'm glad Lak found this thread. :)
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Post by Audley Strange » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:20 pm

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Audley Strange wrote:I don't see why I should be obligated to behave to an arbitrary subjective standard based on each individual's level of emotional tolerance.
What's arbitrary about it? :tea:
You do not get upset at the same things I get upset about, thus your emotional tolerance is arbitrary based on random events that constructed them.
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Audley Strange wrote:
FBM wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:I don't see why I should be obligated to behave to an arbitrary subjective standard based on each individual's level of emotional tolerance.
What's arbitrary about it? :tea:
You do not get upset at the same things I get upset about, thus your emotional tolerance is arbitrary based on random events that constructed them.
What's arbitrary or random about it? Seems like it's more just a matter of unfamiliarity.
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Post by Audley Strange » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:36 pm

FBM wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:
FBM wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:I don't see why I should be obligated to behave to an arbitrary subjective standard based on each individual's level of emotional tolerance.
What's arbitrary about it? :tea:
You do not get upset at the same things I get upset about, thus your emotional tolerance is arbitrary based on random events that constructed them.
What's arbitrary or random about it? Seems like it's more just a matter of unfamiliarity.
I think you're misunderstanding. I'm not saying you choose arbitrarily to have a emotional state, just that what triggers it is based on arbitrary events. Thus your tolerance for say racist jokes may well be different from a racist or someone who had endured racism all their lives.
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Post by Strontium Dog » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:41 pm

I had some fucking nutcase on RatSkep make repeated snide comments about my family members.

This after he registered an account on a political forum I posted on under my real name. Proper stalker shit.

Actually, I'm not sure I'm allowed to call him a fucking nutcase, as he's a member here? But he is a fucking nutcase. And a shithouse.
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Audley Strange wrote:
FBM wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:
FBM wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:I don't see why I should be obligated to behave to an arbitrary subjective standard based on each individual's level of emotional tolerance.
What's arbitrary about it? :tea:
You do not get upset at the same things I get upset about, thus your emotional tolerance is arbitrary based on random events that constructed them.
What's arbitrary or random about it? Seems like it's more just a matter of unfamiliarity.
I think you're misunderstanding. I'm not saying you choose arbitrarily to have a emotional state, just that what triggers it is based on arbitrary events. Thus your tolerance for say racist jokes may well be different from a racist or someone who had endured racism all their lives.
Maybe we're not working on the same definition of "arbitrary." :dunno:
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Post by Daedalus » Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:45 pm

DDOS.

For weeks.

Make the ISP blackhole their IP.
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Post by Jason » Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:28 pm

I did something similar to what the boxer did in the op, except it was some idiot that contacted me through Kijiji and I didn't post it to my followers. I found out where he lived (a condo built in one of the 19th century factories that are so popular in Kitchener Ontario), his home phone number, even the number of his condo in the building. I just drove to his building, called him from outside (it had secured entrances), and told him I was waiting for him in the parking lot if he wanted to settle things.

Never heard from him again.

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