Online Forums and the Abuse

Now the majority of people would have used some sort of online forum, whether it be for social interaction, or some sort of specific use. However, not everyone has had the joy of being the centre of an attack on an online forum, or more commonly known as 'flaming'.

This is the act in which a large amount of people simply insult you for your post, or your signature, or any-fucking- thing they can identify as something they consider an annoyance. This is a frequent occurence in forums aimed at the younger generation, and therefore the younger generation are generally the culprits of said flaming. Whether it's because they're too immature to realise not every post needs an insult on the end of it, or whether the majority need to feel big and therefore overcompensate on the online forums. Either way, it's one of those things that forum-goers have to endure to get their opinion out there on the net.

Anyway, I'll get to my point. When using a forum, there's several unspoken rules that should be followed:

1. Be kind to one another. Whilst this one rarely gets followed, it would make the entire internet a nicer place if it were, let alone a single forum.
2. Use spoilers or indicate spoilers in thread titles. It's infuriating to find out something about a TV show/film/game without any warning... Not just infuriating, fucking annoying and damn right rude.
3. Help one another. If you can answer someone's question quickly and easily, then do.

Even with these unspoken rules, the internet/forums are still a shit hole the world over. I've come to the conclusion the internet is for more than porn, it's for those that have little, to nothing else to with their time other than berate others...

I look forward to the day where I can sign into a forum and not have my game ruined/myself flamed - will that happen? I doubt it. So next time you go to post on a forum, think of this blog.

Whilst I may not have had as many years on this planet as most, I can say with a straight face I consider myself to be a stand-up, helpful guy... With a grump on society.