I feel terrible....... Trolls on Forums

[Macca]

Well it was someone else; I remember the same massive post, but it is bizarre that two people remember ME doing it! Oh well....

Sorry about that, should have checked back.

[Barry]

What is "tfc"? Traffic?

[Marco]

However, I don't think there are many who frequent hi-fi forums who haven't been the target of someone or another with an axe to grind. The subject matter seems to set everyone off against each other, and no site is 100% innocent.

Yes, but no-one I know of has a whole section of a website virtually dedicated to 'discussing' them and/or their forum, which attracts every disgruntled malcontent on the web to join in with the (already well-established) harassment....

Furthermore, if you notice, we don't have any such section of AoS dedicated to the same, so we're simply not in the same category as the 'other forum' we're essentially both referring to. It's not a case of being "innocent'; it's about proportional response.

Let's just leave it there, please, and move on, as with respect, you can't possibly appreciate what it's like, unless you've been in an identical position on the receiving end.

Marco.

[blackstar]

What is "tfc"? Traffic?

Sorry, yes it is.

[Yomanze]

I've been on a different forum for 6 months , can't say which I don't think for breaking the policy here. On it I've helped over a 100 newbie people out with hi fi recommendations. I'd posted around a 1000 posts.

I had a troll which they didn't do anything about and I lost it in the last few days, and found their moderators aggravating me too in the last day. I'm a bit shamed to admit I lost it. I even sent the owner the troll message to me admitting he was trolling me. In the end I was banned and the troll stayed there.

I'm not a nasty person , I love hi fi, but I feel absolutely terrible at the moment. I've been mentally unwell with depression for some time and have tried a number of times to kill myself in the last few years with money and job worries even though at times I've done ok, I haven't for some time now.

I feel right now I want to drink myself into oblivion and throw that bloody hi fi off my balcony and me with it. All a load worth of newish pmc 25 series, cyrus signature stuff and chord cables. In fact I feel like I want to give it away for the bad feeling connected with it. I just can't believe these people on that forum would be so callous and ungrateful when I'd helped so many of their readers out.

It is a shame you have been upset by it dude. All I can say is AoS has no tolerance for such things, the trolls get banned fast. Stick around here and 'fuhgeddaboudit'.

[andyrlb]

Mate , pay no attention to the sad buggers , I had issues with trolls after doing a tv program and we were professionally advised that ignoring their comments was the only good option.
You've talked about it openly now which means you're on the track .
The guys on here are a great bunch . Stick with us .

[Pharos]

The important thing to remember Dynamics, for your own mental health, is that their actions are little to do with you, and much more to do with their needs.

[Marco]

The important thing to remember Dynamics, for your own mental health, is that their actions are little to do with you, and much more to do with their needs.

Indeed, which is why you're best off ignoring them as much as you can/consider is necessary, as the more they spew their bile at you, without getting a reaction, the more ridiculous and pathetic they will look, as all they're doing is showcasing/laying bare their own mental disturbances.

Marco.

[the little audio company]

They're the ones with the problem, not you.

[struth]

Indeed, which is why you're best off ignoring them as much as you can/consider is necessary, as the more they spew their bile at you, without getting a reaction, the more ridiculous and pathetic they will look, as all they're doing is showcasing/laying bare their own mental disturbances.

Marco.

They are deffo mental... a psychiatrist would have a hay day