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Originally Posted by CFrance
If you have ever read readers' comments after articles in, say, the NYT, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, NPR, you would be astounded at the level of rudeness and flaming that takes place. And these are top-class publications. A lot of other sites (reddit, for instance) have the same nasty flavor. I believe the anonymity brings out the worst in the posters on the above places, and perhaps a bit of that happens on TOTV too.
But TOTV is very mild compared to any other forum I've visited. Just ignore the crabbies and enjoy the rest.
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This is an extremely friendly site compared with the few I have visited over the years since I started using the Internet around 1999. I have had heart wrenching experiences with trolls. Even had one that hounded me on Findlaw's message boards for almost five years (2000-2005) and finally learned that this was one of the people I had gone out of my way to help. He was upset that I could not find him a precedent for his legal argument in a case he was working on in which he was a defendant. He threw every dirty trick at me he could think of for five years and the System Operator would ban him but he would just come on using another name.
Do not feed trolls is the very hard lesson I learned. Ignore them in other words.