[blue_dinner]

I don't understand why we are giving the trolls so much attention. I've been using the Internet for 15+ years and have heard and seen pretty much every bad comment imaginable.

I don't even think of them as real anymore. If someone comes along and says something nasty about me, I just ignore it.

The problem with all of these 'safe spaces' we see on college campuses is that we aren't giving our youth the skills they need to just ignore assholes, which will always be there. When they do come across something like this, it ruins their life and they need to go see a therapist...and the trolls love it because they get to control the person they are tormenting.

We also don't know the age of many of these posters. If you play any game on Xbox live, you will see and hear pretty brutal comments. You also hear the high-pitched squeak boys whose voices haven't changed yet.

Everyone is so quick to blame entire industries of adults without even having the ability to do a proper age or location check on the people posting these terrible comments (which is virtually impossible with the use of proxies, VPNs, and TOR).

I suspect 99% are teenagers and kids under the age of 18.