How important is the power struggle on message boards?
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Cerridwen — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 09:13 PM)
It definitely seems to be a skill, to enjoy the fighting. I like a good scrap myself, when I'm partaking in it, but it is unfortunate to see people being dogpiled. Sometimes, it's deserved, but mostly it simply makes the dogpiled user lash out in defence of themselves, which causes them to dig themselves deeper.
This board seems to do very well in keeping a healthy mix; fights never last long. In the old days of the Soapbox, fights sometimes led to jobs and families being contacted. It was a real threat to have someone dislike you.
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Sophievirus — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 09:18 PM)
In the old days of the Soapbox, fights sometimes led to jobs and families being contacted. It was a real threat to have someone dislike you.
It happened occasionally on GoT board too and mostly hungry was responsible for the majority of doxxing on there. I always hated it and he tried it with me too. Good thing is, he's like 5,000 km away from doxxing me ever
but he made a couple of innocent posters leave the boards forever terrified.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 10:02 PM)
Well, yes, TWD board is quite civilized. We've never had much doxxing, and a lot of us really like each other. Most of the serious fights were with posters from other boards, or with self-appointed board enemies like Shredder. And then there were the legendary Bongo-VHS battles, which went on for years!
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Sophievirus — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 09:06 PM)
Nobody should have to go to bed hurt.
Right and as much as i fight online and always have been för years i actually never went to bed hurt bc after i log off and turn off my device everything happened online that day or ever is magically forgotten and null and void. Its just hard to turn off, thats when the message board addiction comes into that. But yeah i was never so hurt by anything happened online that i took it into bed with me. Lol
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(SNoW) — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 09:19 PM)
Is there power to be had on a forum? I suppose the moderators have a modicum of it, but even that vanishes once the users log out for the night
I'd say so. Depending on what kind of poster you are. There's a certain power in being able to manipulate posters into doing your bidding. Or even just being respected enough that people will do what you want because they want to impress you. There's also a certain power in being able to control the narrative of the board by PMing the right people and developing the right hive mind thinking. One could argue that deleting a few posts here and there is the least form of power this place offers. As great as they are, thirsty and Twiz don't strike me as powerful posters.
There's too much nastiness going on in the world at large. It's hard to see others so continually upset, be it online or offline. The new normal is a stressful one, so it's understandable to be stressed or more easily irritated, but it's so much more rewarding to uplift than to tear down.
I agree with you on this. But I will say, I really don't see how anybody could take anything here personally no matter how low of a blow it was. That's e-stuff I'm referring to. Not irl stuff obviously. Irl stuff is different. -
Cerridwen — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 09:32 PM)
There's a fair amount of truth in that. Influential people will influence. I suppose it doesn't matter which medium is used to reach others. The charismatic will always attract followers.
Of course. It is easy to laugh things off when interactions are limited to the Internet realm, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that being attacked here after having a particularly terrible day never does much for my mood. It's not so much what's said as it is the fact of it being an unpleasant breed of energy expenditure. It's the small things that really push people over the line. I know we aren't known for being a pleasant place, but we also never know what someone is dealing with in their real lives.
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(SNoW) — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 09:40 PM)
That's certainly true. If it's any consolation, since my return I've limited my trolling to other trolls only and made it a habit to be nicer to posters who don't really troll at all. Like Annamaria, Steve Lake and Juan Kerr for example. Perhaps one day I'll leave trolling behind all together. It's a peculiar hobby to say the least and I'm sure a psychologist will one day tell me just why I so heavily gravitate towards it.
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Sophievirus — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 10:14 PM)
She was all that yes. Cool and tough when she went after hungry. Caused him melting down very ****ing amazingly and beautifully..
Here is a taste of it (she is HungryTheHutt)… The poetry of trolling… The haunting of hungryhouse…:
https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/18417803/permalink/#p18417803
I love this so much…
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 10:27 PM)
Sorry, but I don't see that as great trolling. They're both hurling abuse at each other, and she's quite good at it, but I can see why she faded so quickly with Bee. It's a completely different style of trolling. She seems soapbox trained, and therefore doomed, as far as I'm concerned.
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Sophievirus — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 10:31 PM)
It is art tho
The art of when to stop at the right time she really dont have that. But the way this particular thread was orchestrated is just poetic and sophisticated and it takes u on a ****ing trip.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 10:50 PM)
I think she may be better at dealing with bullies and assholes than she is with people she deep down respects (like Bee). That's why you should never mix it up with people you really like. I think she would like to be part of TWD crew and be respected and liked, but that particular ship has sailed. I like her stuff when she's hitting out against (especially male) bullies.
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Sophievirus — 5 years ago(May 25, 2020 10:11 PM)
Oh yes. Whenever i mentioned some trolling she did in the past on here and how much i love her trolling style, she reacted being very flattered and grateful. And she liked my current trolls list where i put her on 3rd place (out of 25).
suck it.