OT: there are some crazy people out there, short rant about online people Options

[TROJANMAN]

sooooo........
i like to play online scrabble. (so i'm a bit of a geek). i beat the snot out of some guy and he quickly leaves my table. then i receive the following PM:

"you stupid F---, I hope you and your family DIE."

then he blocks all incoming messages, so i can't reply.

WTF?!?!? what is wrong with people? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif)

[Andy]

QUOTE (glstrojan @ Feb 25 2005, 12:21 PM)

that's funny.  you're totally right about the 4x4 boards.  why would you ever insult people who talk about monster trucks, guns, and beer all day.  not necessarily in that order.  plus, i've met some of those 4x4 guys on group rides, i'm careful what i say on those websites. not to mention the tyrannical rule of the web administrators on that board.  i was once banned from Colorado4x4.org, just because i made mention of an item i was selling in the classifieds on the chit chat board.  no warnings either, i was completely banned from opening any PM's or replying to anything, until a buddy of mine appealed to one of the admins.

Sadly, the occasional heavy handed admin'ing is the only thing that keeps colorado4x4.org from turning into pirate. And I totally agree, one of the reasons they do get heavy handed sometimes is that some of those people seriously want to follow through with it.

BTW I wasn't trying to be an Internet Badass myself talking to that kid, I really did run into him in the real world and he really was a very personable individual, he didn't seem to have any memory of questioning my parentage. Later, back on the Internet he explained that I was retarded for prefering a manual transmission in sports cars and my assertion that replacing the stock Turbo 400 (3-speed!) in a V12 XJS would improve performance, I guess the transmission reached it's pinnacle in a 1960 Chevy pickup. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif)