How Do You Cope With Stupid Belligerent Bullies On the Net?
Something I really cannot stand is an idiot.
By ‘idiot’ I do not (necessarily) mean someone with a low IQ (after all, IQ assessment relies on many factors which are relevant only to corresponding factors). I mean someone who has no real understanding of a situation, or topic, but who insists, not only in loudly asserting their thoughts on the matter, but then ridiculing anyone who disagrees with them.
You will find the idiot (or usually a bunch of idiots) on every forum on the Internet. In fact, there are many forums composed entirely of idiots.
From my own experience, the best way to deal with an idiot is to ignore him or her. But sometimes that is a very difficult thing to do.
A good forum can be ruined by a bunch of idiots. They bully other members into submission and those who refuse to submit are hounded and ridiculed, until they give up the fight and leave the forum.
The result is that the intelligent forum members move on, either out of choice or because they are hounded out. Then the forum becomes an idiots’ playground, thus eventually leading to its own destruction.
I have left many a forum because of idiots. Sometimes no one notices I have gone. I have read the forum threads, watched the games being played, and moved on without comment.
At other times, I have become involved in forum arguments. This is never a good thing. The only ‘winner’ is the idiot. But only in his eyes, because really there are no winners of an argument happening in hyperspace (unless it is something more sinister, but that is a whole other subject…).
All you are doing when you argue with an idiot online is wasting your precious time.
You cannot reason with an idiot. Idiots see things in black and white (if they bother to look at things at all). Accepting no ’shades of grey’ means leaving no room for compromise and, in any case, to do so, in the idiot’s terms, would mean loss of face.
Why this post?
Well, I have just decided to give up entirely on another forum because of increasing ‘idiot rule’, which is a shame, because this particular forum was once upon a time a treasure trove of friendly help and advice. Nowadays, it is being rapidly taken over by bullying idiots.
Why bother wasting my time staying around to fight for something which isn’t mine anyhow? It’s just a forum.
I guess as times get harder economically, many business forums will suffer the same fate. People get frustrated. Their tempers are short. They bicker and fight.
It’s sad, but bickerng and bullying appear to be coming an increasingly evident part of life.
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