Tells people to calm down, is told to kill self

[Froggy Slayer]

Why are you letting it get to you? These people would never act/think/say these things in reality and are just acting 'hard' on the Internet. If you met them in real life I imagine they'd be the awkward silent people who draw monsters in their spare time.

Never play peace-keeper on the Internet with random people. Just sit back and watch someone else try and fail.

But I'm the quiet guy who draws monsters in his spare time, and I loathe Internet tough guys.

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

Why are you letting it get to you? These people would never act/think/say these things in reality and are just acting 'hard' on the Internet. If you met them in real life I imagine they'd be the awkward silent people who draw monsters in their spare time.

Never play peace-keeper on the Internet with random people. Just sit back and watch someone else try and fail.

But I'm the quiet guy who draws monsters in his spare time, and I loathe Internet tough guys.

There is a troll hidden beneath your flesh.
Can you feel him clawing? Tapping your chest with his mighty club? The tiny snicker at the back of your mind? Be careful my son, you alone have the power to hold back the inner troll. Many have tried and failed to keep him within but you... you may have a chance.

Glory bestow you.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

Why are you letting it get to you? These people would never act/think/say these things in reality and are just acting 'hard' on the Internet. If you met them in real life I imagine they'd be the awkward silent people who draw monsters in their spare time.

Never play peace-keeper on the Internet with random people. Just sit back and watch someone else try and fail.

But I'm the quiet guy who draws monsters in his spare time, and I loathe Internet tough guys.

There is a troll hidden beneath your flesh.
Can you feel him clawing? Tapping your chest with his mighty club? The tiny snicker at the back of your mind? Be careful my son, you alone have the power to hold back the inner troll. Many have tried and failed to keep him within but you... you may have a chance.

Glory bestow you.

I must use my powers for the good of mankind!

 

[uhddh]

You're not in the wrong. You're probably the sanest person that commented on that page.

I like gallows humour to an extent. And that does involve an occasional 'dead baby joke'. It's probably due to being mildly desensitized to death (and an immense dislike of children) but I know where they're coming from.

Trolls will troll, trollbait will do as their name suggests etc. Death threat guy should be punched though.

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

Oh, dead baby jokes. I know so many of you. Me and my friends went through a huge dead baby joke phase in high school.

What's worse than 10 dead babies in a garbage can?
1 dead baby in 10 garbage cans!

I'm sorry but I would have to disagree.
Based on a fairly common moral code present in the majority of humanity I'd say that number of deaths outweighs any gruesome post or perimortem treatment of the body. Thus the death and casual discarding of ten infants would by most moral codes outweigh the death of a single infant, no matter how the body was treated afterwards.
Of course we are assuming that all died in the same way. Were the 10 babies natural deaths that were disposed of in a way that most would again find callous and the single baby was killed deliberately then the child killed by deliberate human action would likely cause more outrage.
I await your rebuttal good sir.

 

[Davey Woo]

I don't think you can ever satisfy or reason with the angry mob, you should have just left them to it as well.

 

[Darkmantle]

Well, this is something. There's a new troll group on facebook, 'Cancer is funny, because people die'. Now, the creator has been receiving a lot of death threats, so I took it upon myself to tell everyone to just ignore the troll and stop feeding him, adding in a digression that people becoming this enraged over an obvious troll is slightly disturbing. This was my comment:

Wow, this is dark. This page is an obvious attention seeking grab, and the person who put it up is a dick, but what's really terrifying is the comments section. People are apparently at all times only a sentence away from threatening someone who they have never met with death, or worse, just because they made a blatantly offensive page. I'm not condoning the page, but people REALLY need to stop acting like murder will solve anything. It's a worrying sign that people are so easily aggravated, and a hair-raising look into our own society that people consider murder to be justified if a person is being a dick. Just ignore him, he'll realise that this kind of behaviour isn't cohesive to civilised society and leave it behind him.

Now, afterwards, a guy told me in the comments that I should kill myself. So, what do you think? Am I in the wrong here, or what?

hm... Honestly my first reaction, If I was mad (and to clarify I'm not), would be to tell you to go fuck yourself. Your comment comes off as very "holier than thou" and condescending. An already upset person would likely react badly, even in real life.

more specifically, it sounds like you are trying to put yourself above the upset people, it kinda reads like "I'm so much better than you guys because I'm calm, all of you guys should be calm too". Which is not the best way to diffuse a situation.

For example, have you ever been really upset about something, and someone keeps telling you to calm down? Same kind of Idea.

EDIT: While you are not in the wrong, per se, I think your attempt to diffuse the situation came off badly, and probably harmed more than it helped.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Don't expect people to "behave" online. Nobody has to worry about a physical altercation online. For example I could say right now that the entire Escapist Community (minus myself of course and maybe Andy Shandy) are all total worthless pussies and deserve absolutely nothing short of being stepped on by supreme beings such as ourselves.

I can post this knowing 99.5% sure that no harm will come of it... except maybe a scolding from the moderators. (though technically I backed up my statement, so its not really a rant) The other .5% is for the total psychos that are filled with rage, hate, and I happen to make them snap.

A real poster would put down his name and address after such death threats.

 

[Daveman]

It's fun to be angry and you get all "da laydays".

 

[The Last Nomad]

Well I think everyone who comments on that page is in the wrong.

The guy who made it is clearly in the wrong, and I don;t think I need to explain why...

but everyone else is also wrong here because the creator is either:
a)attention seeking and doesn't fully understand the concept of death
or
b)actually thinks death is funny

both situations mean everyone should just ignore him (except for maybe some mental health professionals)

 

[Aprilgold]

What gets me is how many idiots there are in the comments.

Welcome to the internet!

The people writing all that shit couldn't care less about what they're saying and don't mean it literally, they just want to see someone get all worked up about it and annoy someone, anyone at all.

LOL, IT IS FNNY BE8 DEY MAD WIOUT BEING MAD!

Seriously, anyone who trolls on the internet needs to learn that no one ever gets mad about it, and cap doesn't suddenly mean their angry, just raising their point.

Your not a special butterfly who makes people rage with your inappropriate jokes, get over yourself.

 

[MetalMagpie]

OT: I actually attended a seminar, led by trained behavior analysts, for dealing with angry people recently. The first thing they said? Never try to make an angry person not angry. It just makes them angrier. Just leave them to stew off their anger.

Very good advice.

When you're really angry, being told to "just calm down" is about the single most irritating thing in the world!

 

[DazZ.]

Seriously, anyone who trolls on the internet needs to learn that no one ever gets mad about it, and cap doesn't suddenly mean their angry, just raising their point.

I think they're going for the people who start recording themselves crying and breaking down on webcam.

There are a huge amount of them, people honestly do get really worked up over words they read on the internet.

 

[Xanadu84]

The problem is that you told people to not feed the trolls and then fed the trolls. Of course they are being immature jackasses. They are fully aware of that fact, that's why they are doing it. And everyone else can see that they are being jackasses. Your post didn't actually bring any new information or perspectives to the table. I understand the urge to take something so asanine and just assault it as best you can with logic, but its that very urge that lets trolls thrive.

If instead of telling people to ignore something people ACTUALLY ignored it, there would probably be a lot fewer trolls on the internet.

 

[WanderingFool]

Never assume rationality when dealing with the internet, especially Facebook. The Escapist is was one of those rare little Bubbles of maturity and niceness that even reddit fails to emulate, when we go out blinking into the sun and gaze across the landscapes of teh tinter webs, we need to realise that people will always shoot the messenger who makes them feel bad, or be racist.

I think you may give the Escapist to much credit. Its not nearly as bad as the rest, but its not a shining beacon of hope in the interwebs wasteland. Its just the lesser of greater evils.

@OP: You really shouldnt have gotten envolved, as you wouldnt have changed anything.

Wow, this is dark. This page is an obvious attention seeking grab, and the person who put it up is a dick, but what's really terrifying is the comments section. People are apparently at all times only a sentence away from threatening someone who they have never met with death, or worse, just because they made a blatantly offensive page. I'm not condoning the page, but people REALLY need to stop acting like murder will solve anything. It's a worrying sign that people are so easily aggravated, and a hair-raising look into our own society that people consider murder to be justified if a person is being a dick. Just ignore him, he'll realise that this kind of behaviour isn't cohesive to civilised society and leave it behind him.

Specially when you leave a comment like this.

That was just asking for someone to respond with a comment of you dying in some way.

 

[Fappy]

Social media has proven that people say stupid and damning things on the internet even when they're not anonymous. So many stupid people. They're everywhere.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

The Internet always brings out the worst in people.