Some Forums an Sites are Really Mean

I got into a fight years ago on another forum. Me and this other guy couldn't stand each other. So I wrote to him...

'You're so unmanly, if you ever went missing they'd put your picture on a carton of half & half."

To which he quickly replied...

"Yeah. And they'd put you on Homo milk."

The guy out-zinged me and I couldn't stop laughing. :LOL:
 
hollydolly said:
and don't lend Money, books or tools if you want them returned..:D
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Too bad I never heard that. In 9th grade a friend borrowed some really unique magazines and books about the Beatles. Never saw them again and she kept ‘forgetting’ to bring them.

The best I saw was a woman who wrote in bold letters on the front and a few places inside a book, “This book belongs to …. Return it to me.” She didn’t care about the value; she just wanted her books back, no excuses.
 
My neighbor has His truck on a jack and is underneath working on the brakes.
I noticed he had no safety jack stands under the truck. So, I walk over and offer to
bring over some Frame Jack Stands for him to use. Over a Month, He hasn't brought
them back. I'm home lots of the time. I bought them 50 years ago. He will most
likely bring them back when he needs to jack his truck up again. Haha I have another
set now.
 
My brother would borrow my clothes growing up and thought he could claim them as his by Squatters Rights or something. It's true. His theory was if he kept my stuff long enough, it would...through some kind of osmosis...eventually become his own property.
 
In the 90s, I joined a work forum but often felt misunderstood, and got into trouble. I've joined a few other forums since, but kept a low profile. If they're too contentious, I stop following. This forum is by far the most interesting, and fun I've ever been a part of, and the only one I visit regular.
 
Jules said:
Too bad I never heard that. In 9th grade a friend borrowed some really unique magazines and books about the Beatles. Never saw them again and she kept ‘forgetting’ to bring them.

The best I saw was a woman who wrote in bold letters on the front and a few places inside a book, “This book belongs to …. Return it to me.” She didn’t care about the value; she just wanted her books back, no excuses.
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When I was the owner of a tow truck company, all our tools had my date of birth engraved on them, and the tool boxes said "Stolen from Reward Towing " on the outside of them with the company phone number. JimB.
 
hollydolly said:
Yep...yep...and yep.... and I've been a Moderator on 2 different forums..

2 guys were particularly vile, absolutely horrible people. They were threatening others, so I banned them after asking many times for them to stop.. and they both signed up again with proxy Ip addresses, ( these were men over 50) and spammed every thread on the forum.. calling me every dirty name even a sailor couldn't think of.. they were banned by the forum owner and they came back again and again and again, and till the forum owner ( male) threatened to bring the police in..... repulsive scum...

One of those the worst of the 2 registered here as well..some years ago.. people didn't like him and we haven't seen him post here for a long time thank God.. I hope he's dead, he was so vile..

Overall tho' I've found the majority of Vile people on forums are women...
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I don't know how you do it.
I would hate to be a Mod, there is so much hate and anger associated with it.
 
You haven't really encountered a mean forums until you visit an atheist site. I joined a couple in my 50's and it was like the island in the story Lord of The Flies. Any believer who wondered through was treated badly. Moderators stirred things up more than calming anything down, referring to believers as chew toys. I stayed a couple years but was always frustrated at not actually being able to have conversations with believers because of the rudeness of the 'natives'.

After thinking through my thoughts about religion I decided I was a hard core agnostic. For a couple years I was a member on a Christian website where I had a number of good friends but there too there were plenty who were polemists provoked to rudeness by the mere presence of someone who didn't share their POV. In my experience the most reasonable people do not go around convinced that only they and those who agree with them have the truth and are worthy. Occasionally I still find some aspect of religious belief interesting to talk about but I wouldn't care to do so within the camp of either warring party.
 
MarkD said:
You haven't really encountered a mean forums until you visit an atheist site. I joined a couple in my 50's and it was like the island in the story Lord of The Flies. Any believer who wondered through was treated badly. Moderators stirred things up more than calming anything down, referring to believers as chew toys. I stayed a couple years but was always frustrated at not actually being able to have conversations with believers because of the rudeness of the 'natives'.

After thinking through my thoughts about religion I decided I was a hard core agnostic. For a couple years I was a member on a Christian website where I had a number of good friends but there too there were plenty who were polemists provoked to rudeness by the mere presence of someone who didn't share their POV. In my experience the most reasonable people do not go around convinced that only they and those who agree with them have the truth and are worthy. Occasionally I still find some aspect of religious belief interesting to talk about but I wouldn't care to do so within the camp of either warring party.
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So true. Due to the meanness (including not only sexism but downright misogyny) I've encountered among some atheist groups, I've started telling people that I'm an atheist on good days and an agnostic on bad days.
 
Colleen said:
A few years ago I joined a FB group that was about my hometown that I grew up in but haven't lived there since 1975. I enjoyed seeing/reading about what was going on in my town and what new businesses were starting up, etc. Then, one day someone posted about the planetarium building that was built right down town and how it was an eyesore architecturally compared to the rest of the town. I (stupid me) commented that I wondered why that particular structure was picked because it didn't fit in.

Well, I got blasted by some young guy that called me an "old b..ch" and said I was trying to ruin his memory of his town and I must hate my life, etc., etc., etc.! WTH?? It upset me so much. I referred his comment to the moderator of the group but she never said or did anything so I left.
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A young (30s maybe?) gal who I was friends with on a booklovers site posted about elderly women who volunteered at a place in her area and I don't even remember what it was about the women she complained about; anyway, all I did was reply with something along the lines of "Maybe it's because they no longer drive and have to arrange rides, etc." Wow, did she come unglued?! "You don't have to EXPLAIN anything to me, CAROL! Leave me alone!!" (Carol is not my real name; apparently, for a while there anyway, "Carol" is the name for an elderly "Karen.") So I unfriended her. You know, she was always complaining about her family and how they were so mean to her and how she'd had to cut them off; hmmmm.
 
When the Internet era arose, I worked years in hardware technology at the 800 pound gorilla corporation making that possible. Most ordinary folks have little awareness of how crude and rude some unmoderated Internet web forums now are. Many people that have lived a sheltered digital life might name any of the big social medial forums like X or tiktok but they are comparatively bland. Worst are mobbed by vile pin head juveniles trying to out gross each other with how to be most evil just like Dungeons and Dragons once was.

One of the favorite activities on such forums is attacking any newcomers. This all began many years ago with the rise of AOL. I don't advise actually visit any of the below that is but the tip of a large iceberg but rather suggest herein just reading summaries of what they are about. It has been many years since I have ever gone into such places that are also hotbeds of malware and dark web entry.

The 30 Most Disturbing Internet Forums

This is a world map showing amounts of Internet censorship. Once one understands how vile parts of the open web are, one may also understand why many conservative countries censor, especially religiously so, and tend to hate our society/culture. If it were up to this person with a magic button, would zap most of them into non-existence as it has increased a growing psychological disease over humanity. In any case, I preferred to selfishly instead "drop out" and live the rest of my brief years of existence enjoying myself sheltered from its mental pollution our own mainstream media of course rarely mentions.

Internet Censorship 2024: A Global Map of Internet Restrictions - Comparitech

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No matter where or what you post, people will be kind or unkind and make nasty, uncalled-for comments. Either way, when you post anything, brace yourself and be prepared for incoming comments because, like it or not, any and all manner of comments will be coming.
 
Bella said:
No matter where or what you post, people will be kind or unkind and make nasty, uncalled-for comments. Either way, when you post anything, brace yourself and be prepared for incoming comments because, like it or not, any and all manner of comments will be coming.
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Yep, unfortunately with the internet, it's "Abandon all hope of sympathy, ye who enter here."
 
Jules said:
I’ve been on lots of forums or social sites and there‘re always disagreements. That’s not bad if people are civil about it.

The very worst I’ve found over the years are home decorating or design sites for small homes, etc. Some people are really vicious.

They say things like:
‘your home is so ugly, I don’t know how you live in it’,
’rip out cabinets, countertops and floor’. The person might just have asked for a suggestion for a wall paint colour.
etc, etc, etc.

Even making a comment that it would be nice if people were nice to each other gets an attack. ‘How dare you; we’re allowed to say what we want’

Have you joined sites that it was too hostile to participate or remain. I must admit, I still return to the decorating sites; not a bats’ chance that I’ll ever post anything anymore. Thank goodness for the interesting and nice posts.
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I have found that this forum is the friendliest and love this one a lot! I can't remember the other ones, but I have not left this one and not gone back to the others.
 
Bella said:
No matter where or what you post, people will be kind or unkind and make nasty, uncalled-for comments. Either way, when you post anything, brace yourself and be prepared for incoming comments because, like it or not, any and all manner of comments will be coming.
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That’s right. There are moody people everywhere. No site is drama free. Every site has people with mental health issues. It’s not an excuse for bad behaviour. It’s just an undeniable fact of life.
 
Worst forum I was ever on was a vegan forum. Now defunct. Biggest bunch of nasties and they all wanted to agree with each other. Lots of virtue signaling.

I watch a live stream sometimes, Tiny Kittens. Their live stream has 3 rules: No all caps, no more than 3 emojis and no roll calls. So this, yes troll, starts posting in all caps, moderator kindly writes something, then it's a string of emojis, again moderator intervenes, then started asking roll call questions. Can't even leave the kitties alone. I hope they banned the person. I clicked out because they were getting on my nerves. Have not noted a return of this behavior.
 
Remy said:
Worst forum I was ever on was a vegan forum. Now defunct. Biggest bunch of nasties and they all wanted to agree with each other. Lots of virtue signaling.

I watch a live stream sometimes, Tiny Kittens. Their live stream has 3 rules: No all caps, no more than 3 emojis and no roll calls. So this, yes troll, starts posting in all caps, moderator kindly writes something, then it's a string of emojis, again moderator intervenes, then started asking roll call questions. Can't even leave the kitties alone. I hope they banned the person. I clicked out because they were getting on my nerves. Have not noted a return of this behavior.
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the thing is .. there are so many people with mental issues with access to forums now. No need even for a computer, a simply phone suffices... so forums like this are open to all sorts of Nutcases, and fantasists...
 

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