I used to “forum” regularly on neowin.net but then I stopped. It was mainly to do with the fact that I switched over to linux and neowin is a predominantly “windows” community (despite the fact that they have their own disgusting flavour of linux that is based on Ubuntu). Another reason was that I’m easily trolled. Yes I’ve said it, happy JP (if you’re even reading this)?

I decided to be more “active” in this other community. I’ve had an account since ’04 but haven’t posted in like 4 years. Only started to post recently and I got into these situations pretty quickly.

I think the key to “living” online is to just not care. Treat everybody’s comment as dirt and just troll back. That’s how you get dogshit communities like “bored aussie”. It’s impossible to have a decent online community that’s troll-free. Even on WebCT you have incredibly douchy people and this is a place where your full name is displayed publicly.

But I guess you just have to follow everything up with the word “lol” and everything is cool right?

…right?