You see the stupidity, and
knee jerk reaction is fuck you, you stupid motherfucker. (Yes, I have been
trolled.) A torrent of responses other than curse words tumble around, no it
doesn’t, did you really read it, were you dropped on the head as a child, for
the love of god please don’t breed. I’ve been there, wanted to do that had my
blood pressure go up and wanted to throw something but it wouldn’t have helped
because the troll wasn’t even within reach. That’s the whole problem the troll
isn’t within reach and the even bigger problem is that pretty much nothing you
say or do is going to make the troll listen, understand, or behave like an
actual human being.
This could be for any number
of reasons, you can’t fix stupid, for them ignorance really is bliss, and the
worst but likely most common reason is they want to piss you off and create
turmoil/agitation in your life because their own is sad, pathetic, and boring
without having someone to piss off. There are sadly a large number of people
out there who aren’t and never will be happy and they get a pathetic kick out of
spreading around their unhappiness to others.
I recently saw a post on
Facebook where someone felt the need to call out the FSOG author and from atop
her white horse condemn the author for responding to a troll in an undignified
manner. And herein lies the other side of it, people who feel they have the
right to judge you and will then condemn you for responding in whatever way you
see fit. Actually, I thought the response was funny and laughed.
Unfortunately not every
response I have seen do I agree with. Which brings me to the fact that I have
unfollowed two writers/authors because of their rants against I don’t know who
on Facebook. Sorry, it can be painful and turning the other cheek is the last
thing people want to hear when they are hurting but if your response sounds
like you have gone batshit crazy don’t hit post. I get it, I do, you aren’t going
to take it lying down and fuck anyone who doesn’t like what you do and how
you’re doing it but when I see a paragraph rant that makes it sound like you
didn’t take your meds today, it makes you look unprofessional and that is that
last thing I need to clog up my feed. Because here’s the problem when you try
and kick at shit, you’re going to get some of it on you and then you no longer
smell so good.
I saw one of the stupidest
articles on self-publishing I have seen in quite some time, so I called out his
being a troll and his stupidity and the jackass then tries to engage and
further piss me off by sending me another dumbass article he wrote. Blocked on
twitter after that. I’m not saying anything is easy and maybe it’s only
slightly easier for me because I grew up with three brothers who got their jollies
from torturing me when there was nothing good on television. They are the ones
who taught me words are just words and for a moment they can hurt but you are
the only person who decides if they do or not.
So please boys and girls do
not engage the trolls, when you engage the trolls you feed them and they get
stronger and they come back again and again and then they go after others. Don’t
feed the trolls.