Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Trolls, they scare me but not really.

The image says it all. A few weeks ago I was looking around profile images on a FFXI site, called Final Fantasy Players. I had a pic posted there ages ago back when I was new to MMO and wanted to get a peek at what others looked like behind their characters. I haven't used it in years then. Looking back, and how many people deal with jerks online, both on the game and on forums or whatever, I remember some of the pictures I seen and I gotta say, nobody's got nothing to be threatend nor afraid of. Its true, the internet is where you can literally be someone else and use it, also, as an extension of bringing out your true colors. However, behind the keyboard and without a computer some of these "trolls" are less than ordinary and really, nothing to be afraid of.

Foulei once told me, "Don't feed the trolls". A good example was when I made a post on one of the forums pretaining to FFXI and I made it clear to people that i did not want any aruguments amoungst themselves when they answer a question I've made. Sure enough nobody made a single post, whereas prior to the post I made one before that without the warning and tons of people answered and argued between each other.

So really everyone don't be annoyed or angry at the internet trolls out there. They're nothing but hot air, and is it really worth getting angry at someone that could be half a continent away, let alone behind a keyboard? Really.

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