Boyfriend troubles 6743
I have a friend who is a child psychologist. When she talks about the behavior of her more troubled patients, it inevitably reminds me of how most usenet...
Trolls like that aren't trying to communicate, they are playing a game where the goal is to anger someone else. Any response is just confirmation (in their minds, anyway) that they have "won". Best course of action is to ignore them and move on.
What's really sad is that annoying people is easy. It's trivial to do it by accident. This Kadaitcha type couldn't even *imagine* how to make someone feel as good as the trolls are aimed at making them feel bad. It's like putting effort into being the world's best sleeper or the clumsiest walker or something... any fool can (and does) match them effortlessly.
On Thursday 08 December 2005 22:16, Ray Ingles stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes...
Honest communication is much harder, but vastly more rewarding.
I'm not sure why someone would act that way. Honestly, I've not ever been able to really understand it. My best guess is that they don't think they have anything of any value to communicate, and don't think they are really capable of meaningful exchange, so the only outlet they have for any kind of interaction is to annoy others.
Apparently they really fear, deep in their hearts, that they truly aren't worth anything much, and so put effort into disrupting other people so they have something on which to blame their inability to earn any respect.
-- Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317
"A troll is someone who, finding that no-one likes them, decides to pretend that it's on purpose." - Paul Crowley
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