The sad thing about it is that over the years I thought it was a couple of different people doing it, and I made some uncharitable statements about them, and to them - that's rash judgement.
Anonymous comments can be a sort of scourge.
Unnamed sources can create a lot of problems for many people.
But God knows who you are.
Several years ago, I discovered the identity of someone leaving really, nasty hateful comments on my blog. It turned out to be my son's godfather.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that weird - when it turns out to be people we know.
DeleteYears ago I belonged to a Catholic forum where we had to keep comments civil and back up our statements with fact, not feelings. This was a good policy because I began to see how often I used my feelings as fact and that it was easy to be a keyboard "warrior" and write things anonymously you would probably never say in person. We will all be judged eventually on all we read and said - I'm doing all I can now to reduce the time that judgement will take!
ReplyDeleteGee ... I remember when trolling people was fun. Being silly, making silly commentary or false claims just to rile folks up and read their reactions online. I am not talking about meanness like one female blogger I remember who has since moved on to another blog but am referring to non-serious stuff like trolling folks on certain movies, types of music, art or Japanese animation.
ReplyDeleteAh well ...
I do that all the time - I'm not talking about that stuff.
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