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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]enigmatic
(15,021 posts)It's just a game to them. That's how they can easily slide from position to position, from candidates they despised one primary to cheering them on the next. Some treat it as another RPG where they take on a role and then switch sides after awhile to change things up for them. And stalking, harassing others is part of the game to them.
And yes, for some it's about the bullying that they can get away in regards to other people they, for whatever reason, hate. That's why you see certain people's posts alerted on all the time, no matter if the post is alert-worthy. People bully and hate for reasons that often make no sense, but that's humanity. Obviously when they carrying the bullying and stalking into RL then it much more sinister.
I've been on message boards for 20 years or so. Some as innocuous subject-wise as you can get, yet this kind of thing that we see here happened on most of those, too. It's about the personality types that inhabit them, not necessarily the subject matter.
Once I learned that lesson, it became much easier to disengage from that nastiness and chaos on message boards but I still get drawn into them; that's why I came back here after not posting for years. I found a candidate I backed and wanted to be a part of a group the was like-minded in support of him. But as this Primary season (which still hasn't even officially started yet) gets closer and closer, I realize i'll most likely bow out again and look for other boards and blogs to be a part of, because I know as a veteran of 3 other primaries here, that the toxicity here will be off the charts and I just don't want to be a part of that anymore.