But this approach is allowed and actively encouraged lately. This silent berating is unacceptable and should be looked at, it isn't really pleasant or reasonable and the protagonists do it deliberately. I think I'd rather be called a prick than this method.
Chilcs You are quite correct that personal insults are not acceptable and I back you on that but you really have got to look at St Godders role in all of this. It's not his political views that are being questioned, it's the continual provocation.
And that's not the same advice to being insulted directly? Boy you cant make this stuff up. Chilcs, im not having a go at you, and everyone has enough on their plate, but sitting by and letting these antagonistic old ****s keep on deliberately goading people isn't on and seriously, no over reaction, but I don't want to be part of that. If I saw that going on at work, or down the pub, I wouldn't tolerate it and Id say something and intervene, here we are helpless. And I simply don't want that in my life, particularly with everything else that's going on. This place is losing a chunk of people, hope it stops soon for the rest of you...
Click on their name. Click on ignore. Done. And the more people who do it, the more the ignoree gets drowned out.
Its pretty straight forward to decide what is a personal insult though. How do you decide what goading is? It's different from one person to the next, might depend how you interpret something, and the written word is notorious for being misinterpreted. Basically impossible to police that because it's too much of a grey area.
Let's not piss in a cup and pretend its presseco. Godders knows exactly what he's doing and does it pretty frequently.
But to their crédit they are not Johnson supporters. They would prefer the likes of John Major, David Mellor, who resigned after having a mistress surfaced, and Edwina Currie.
He is pretty good at it though tbf. He’s chosen Victor Meldrew as his online persona, he’s probably not like that at all in real life. But he gets everyone fizzing, including me sometimes.
Internet troll In internet slang, a troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community ... Wikipedia This is from the forum rules...... Persistent rule breaking or just plain Trolling will lead to a short or permanent ban. https://www.not606.com/threads/saints-not606-a-newbies-and-basic-editor-guide-updated.177115/
Ah na I agree he's good at it. And yea it's his online persona that pisses me and others off, because he wouldn't do it in person as people wouldn't just stand there and take it.