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Picture this as your inside cheat sheet of top secret information to assist you in joyful use of an online message board.
1. Captain chaos
Understand that there are people whom only desire to create chaos. Pay their antics no attention. Attention feeds the monster. The monster dies if you don't feed it.
2. The consenting hostage.
Unless someone is threatening to injure you or take your life, you have the full on right to leave a thread unopened. See a thread topic that gets under your skin? You don't have to open it and subject your sanity to all of the posts that will indeed get under your skin. Don't want none of the rage causing content? Then don't open one. Don't be the consenting hostage.
3. The I Don't Like This Topic Derailer - TIDLTTD for short.
There are people who only want to derail your thread. These people may see the topic of your thread and immediately become disgusted with the topic. They will enter your thread, and try to derail it from the start. You can easily spot them, because their first, second, third..etc posts in the thread, will have nothing to do with the topic at hand. They may make very indirect snide comments about said topic. Their desire is to create so much distraction in said thread, that they themselves become the topic of the thread. Once enough drama has been caused, they know people will become sick of said topic and give up.
They may hope that everyone will get in a fight over who started what! Due to their innate ability to start drama without actually being too direct, they're constantly able to avoid detection as the fire starter.
Don't take their bait. Just keep on topic.
4. The Control Copy/Paster
The control copy/paster is trying to wear you down and control you through attrition. For them it's not so much about giving information. Rather it's about giving you so much copy and pasted information, that you simply give up.
Tune it out and only interact with posts that have some personal thought.
5. 20 to life.
Feel that need to stay up until 3am arguing your perspective? Have you debated your side in the same thread over and over? Have you posted the same topic a buzillion times?
This is a message board. It has a log off button.
You're not stuck in a supermax prison, ordered to serve 20 years to life.
When it's 3am, or you have repeated yourself more than a skipping record, log off!
Chill.
Relax.
Regroup.
That's all I can think of for now.
I may add more later.
Feel free to tag on your own.
1. Captain chaos
Understand that there are people whom only desire to create chaos. Pay their antics no attention. Attention feeds the monster. The monster dies if you don't feed it.
2. The consenting hostage.
Unless someone is threatening to injure you or take your life, you have the full on right to leave a thread unopened. See a thread topic that gets under your skin? You don't have to open it and subject your sanity to all of the posts that will indeed get under your skin. Don't want none of the rage causing content? Then don't open one. Don't be the consenting hostage.
3. The I Don't Like This Topic Derailer - TIDLTTD for short.
There are people who only want to derail your thread. These people may see the topic of your thread and immediately become disgusted with the topic. They will enter your thread, and try to derail it from the start. You can easily spot them, because their first, second, third..etc posts in the thread, will have nothing to do with the topic at hand. They may make very indirect snide comments about said topic. Their desire is to create so much distraction in said thread, that they themselves become the topic of the thread. Once enough drama has been caused, they know people will become sick of said topic and give up.
They may hope that everyone will get in a fight over who started what! Due to their innate ability to start drama without actually being too direct, they're constantly able to avoid detection as the fire starter.
Don't take their bait. Just keep on topic.
4. The Control Copy/Paster
The control copy/paster is trying to wear you down and control you through attrition. For them it's not so much about giving information. Rather it's about giving you so much copy and pasted information, that you simply give up.
Tune it out and only interact with posts that have some personal thought.
5. 20 to life.
Feel that need to stay up until 3am arguing your perspective? Have you debated your side in the same thread over and over? Have you posted the same topic a buzillion times?
This is a message board. It has a log off button.
You're not stuck in a supermax prison, ordered to serve 20 years to life.
When it's 3am, or you have repeated yourself more than a skipping record, log off!
Chill.
Relax.
Regroup.
That's all I can think of for now.
I may add more later.
Feel free to tag on your own.
