Internet Forum Fighting: All the excitement of kicking a smack-talking hobo, but without getting hepatitis C on your shoe...
Folks, granted, it's been a long time since I waded into a good long internet fight night. The last one happened to be the complete boot-fucking I laid down on Dummy Matt including some solid elbow chops to Eyebrock. And then, after that, I was able to beat down Gangstalking AND her army of mental demons with one hand tied to your scrotum.
Don't believe me? Who else could come up with such powerful evidence that none of us even remember what the fuck this article is about?
Most forum fights follow a predictable pattern. Initially, a body will present a point. Either this point is well articulated or it’s a thudding brick dropped from on high. No matter which, eventually somebody will challenge the veracity of the point, either from a factual standpoint or they don’t like the evidence and must destroy that which threatens their broken kaleidoscope world view. Usually, they’ll back up the latter with a bevy of opinions culled from years of knowing nothing. These opinions have all the same authority at settling an argument as writing “me” and “you” on different sides of a manhole cover and flipping it in the air and allowing the guy with the thick moustache and Old Navy sweatshirt who takes his kid’s birthday party to Jumbo Video to eat the free popcorn because “those fuckers at Chuck E Cheese are the real loud-mouthed assholes” be the referee.
I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: Opinions mean nothing when compared to facts.
So once you find yourself in an internet donnybrook, what do you do?
Always read their post twice
By reading a post twice, you can usually find more than sufficient error to write an entire response. I’ve seen it all: People who initially start off arguing a point, only to continue on waaaay too long until they contradict themselves later on. B...
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