Some vegans and vegetarians probably clicked on this message and thought that the subject line meant that I was going to bash them. That’s what the situation is now on Youtube, just because of the trolls.
As a 38 year old that started off with BBSes in Ottawa on my Amiga (Tumbler’s Tavern/Proton Palace), I have had a quite a few trolls attempt to manipulate my comments and try to make them say something they didn’t. And nothing really has changed. These people just try to fool more people into believing their manipulations now.
This is why some vegans and vegetarians are quite snippy and hostile at times, because they think people are just out to bash their lifestyle choice. And the trolls are quite willing to make every person that eats meat out as a hater or basher.
This is why I am being targeted. I’m a moderate and the trolls don’t want reason or civil discussion inbetween people with different opinions.
I think vegeterianism is fine, when it is viable – Like in some tropical climates. But I also think eating meat isn’t as unhealthy and immoral as some people want to make it out to be. And I practice what I preach ; I eat both vegetarian meals and a reduced amount of meat.
Normally I would pay no attention to these trolls and just discuss the issue with real people but Youtube has a serious issue in regards to their blocking and reporting procedures now.
Numerous reports of report failures and block bypasses by several haters/spammers have been posted in the community forums at Youtube and unlike before, when my complaints were addressed, the issues just linger and result in situations where the trolls and spammers are emboldened.
BUT, I have noticed that the forms do work in the Google Chrome browser, so it may be a glitch within IE and Firefox that can be addressed. I haven’t tried Opera but i’ve got enough browsers on my system. (EDIT – Read comment for update on issue)
Seriously, these trolls are wasting so much of my time that I could hardly find time to film and upload videos on Youtube, which now takes an eternity to process, after a long upload.
And Youtube is allowing the very little practicality they have left to be taken away by jerks who joined Youtube to annoy and harass people – To divide, conquer and render discussions useless and inhospitable to different ideas.
It is quite clear that these trolls have serious disorders and can’t handle three dimensional situations. That is why they assign people a personality and/or a series of beliefs and insist on these people proving they are not that person or subscribe to those beliefs.
This aggressive prejudice is a common trait in trolls, who simply berate people with their knee jerk, profanity laced allegations in order to have control on a situation, that wasn’t meant to be controlled in that manner in the first place.
They assign themselves a superior roll by demanding people defend themselves and never ever admit they are wrong in throwing accusations around. Why ? Because they see that as a sign of weakness.
This usually results in a dismissal of the discussion’s importance yet one had to wonder why they they invested so much time in gaining and retaining control of a discussion.
“Just for kicks” is also a common excuse for so much disruption and nonsence when quite frankly we know they are just spoiled children in adult bodies, demanding to be entertained by everyone around them. This explains the childish retorts like “No, you’re a troll and spammer”.