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This mystery is going to haunt me on this forum forever. It happens a hundred times: I drop some provocative opinion that most people aren't going to agree with.
Then, out of nowhere, these high-strung types show up—people who are clearly frustrated by something in their own lives—and the second they see something they don't like, they just start hurling insults. You know the drill: "you're crazy," "you're stupid," "get help," "you're not normal," or whatever other garbage an idle, miserable mind can conjure up.
And here’s the kicker: when you finally lose your cool and snap back at them in kind, the mods usually don't even blink at the initial insult (honestly, sometimes it feels like they enjoy watching it). Instead, *you* get the ban—simply because you fought back using their own tactics.
What kind of logic is that? So, someone else can come at me with disgusting vitriol first, but I’m expected to follow some saintly, "turn the other cheek" doctrine regardless of how nasty the attack was?
If that's the rule, why don't you apply it to yourselves? Why is it that the people throwing the insults never seem to get banned, even though they're clearly breaking the rules? It feels like there's one set of rules for the favorites and another for everyone else.
Are you banning the person responding just because you don't know them, while letting the original harasser off easy because they're part of the inner circle? I honestly don't get it. It's a permanent enigma to me. I'd really love a straight answer as to why I've been targeted by this injustice a thousand times already.
Why is it that you never react when someone drops a curse word at me, digs up my old posts that have nothing to do with the current topic just to mock me, or uses irrelevant stuff to tear me down? Yet, the moment I respond to that person, I'm the one getting banned.
Why can't you see the difference between good and evil? You completely ignore a malicious, humiliating, and vile post directed at me, but you suddenly develop perfect vision the moment I fire back. And then—boom—the ban. I'm half-joking, but seriously: someone comes along being malicious, digs up some bad experience from my past to insult me (which has zero connection to the topic), and you don't care. They are being genuinely hateful, but if I respond—even with a tiny insult—the hammer falls on me.
You don't care that they're pulling off-topic posts that should be flagged as spam and harassment. I sit around waiting to see a single warning issued to people like that, but since you never react and they never get penalized, I end up hitting back with an insult of my own—sometimes a stronger one, just to settle the score—and I already know the outcome: warnings or bans for me.
Then, out of nowhere, these high-strung types show up—people who are clearly frustrated by something in their own lives—and the second they see something they don't like, they just start hurling insults. You know the drill: "you're crazy," "you're stupid," "get help," "you're not normal," or whatever other garbage an idle, miserable mind can conjure up.
And here’s the kicker: when you finally lose your cool and snap back at them in kind, the mods usually don't even blink at the initial insult (honestly, sometimes it feels like they enjoy watching it). Instead, *you* get the ban—simply because you fought back using their own tactics.
What kind of logic is that? So, someone else can come at me with disgusting vitriol first, but I’m expected to follow some saintly, "turn the other cheek" doctrine regardless of how nasty the attack was?
If that's the rule, why don't you apply it to yourselves? Why is it that the people throwing the insults never seem to get banned, even though they're clearly breaking the rules? It feels like there's one set of rules for the favorites and another for everyone else.
Are you banning the person responding just because you don't know them, while letting the original harasser off easy because they're part of the inner circle? I honestly don't get it. It's a permanent enigma to me. I'd really love a straight answer as to why I've been targeted by this injustice a thousand times already.
Why is it that you never react when someone drops a curse word at me, digs up my old posts that have nothing to do with the current topic just to mock me, or uses irrelevant stuff to tear me down? Yet, the moment I respond to that person, I'm the one getting banned.
Why can't you see the difference between good and evil? You completely ignore a malicious, humiliating, and vile post directed at me, but you suddenly develop perfect vision the moment I fire back. And then—boom—the ban. I'm half-joking, but seriously: someone comes along being malicious, digs up some bad experience from my past to insult me (which has zero connection to the topic), and you don't care. They are being genuinely hateful, but if I respond—even with a tiny insult—the hammer falls on me.
You don't care that they're pulling off-topic posts that should be flagged as spam and harassment. I sit around waiting to see a single warning issued to people like that, but since you never react and they never get penalized, I end up hitting back with an insult of my own—sometimes a stronger one, just to settle the score—and I already know the outcome: warnings or bans for me.