Odd question

[Disco Potato]

Dunno if this is appropriate but I'm just really curious :p

I stumbled upon this thread on another forum early this morning:
http://forums.ffonline.com/showthread.php?t=46395

My question is: has a situation like this (where bunches of people have ganged up on someone and personally insulted them for pages and pages) ever occurred on this forum? The closest thing I can think of (in my relatively few months here) is when people started making fun of Viator (if it was even that - can't remember the exacts), but that was nowhere close to the level of (not-totally-undeserved :p) ridicule the starter of the topic above has had flung at him.

Or do the staff members and Warn button prevent that from ever happening here?

[Quindiana Jones]

I think this thread should turn into a Disco Potato insultathon.

But no, not while I've been here. I doubt the staff would let it happen.

[sephirothishere]

i dunno...lots of times the staff are just happy to see people that are getting abused banned so they dont to piss off the wankers that are the real problem in the first place...they like them cuz theyre old members or somethin...

[Vincent, Thunder God]

I think when everyone ganged up on lovehurts after he made a thread, which, in my opinion, was not a joke or prank, but rather a sign that he was quite unwell (likely having hallucinations), was perhaps the rudest and most ignorant moment in Eoff's history.

As is the case with most insults these days that, lovehurts was a victim of a situation which, if there was more knowledge in society on the issue, would immediately be seen as the most rude and discriminatory way someone could joke about something.

My point is that he had ADD and possibly other mental problems, so he made a thread about seeing strange people and cars outside his home, who he thought possibly had hostile intents. I know a lot about mental ilness, and it sounded to me like he was experiencing hallunications and/or paranoia. I doubt it was a joke, prank, or a plan to get banned.

Yet afterwards, it was a huge running joke on the forum. He was banned shortly after (the staff say apparently for posting porn) and ever since everyone jokes about "that crazy lovehurts."

Even Rye, who normally is quite nice on here, joked about him in her Ciddie presentation speech.

I think it was a really terrible joke, considering that lovehurts could have been very unwell at the time. In fact, people in general joke about mental illness, or the symptoms of it, way WAY too often. I have suffered from mental illness myself, and I can tell you that I become angry and highly insulted when anyone jokes about suicide, mental illnesses, mental disorders, asylum patients, you name it. It's a terrible illness and something no one should joke about.

Why is it that when a young man, say, breaks his leg, people are very sympathetic because it's a visible problem, but when someone has a breakdown or becomes depressed, suddenly it becomes a huge joke. "Oh, we better keep that kitchen knife from that crazy Fred guy, I heard he was depressed!" That kind of bullsh*t agrivates me to no end.

Most posters realized that lovehurts might have been hallucinating, but everybody laughed over it like immature pre-teens. So base!

[LunarWeaver]

I thought all introduction threads were insult fests.

[Jowy]

they're talking on the talkies!!!11

[sephirothishere]

hmmm...do you ever say to yourself vincent...man that screamin child in the mall had mental issues and a probably came from a bad home...lets not joke about him sprayin deodorant all over me....random example i know...but im nto thinkin sooo straight

...and maybe i have tourretz syndrome that forces me to put more then one full stop at the end of each sentence...nobody knows...well..except me of course...sooooo maybe before you start judging people you should consider the fact you dont know them...

and btw..i dont have tourretz syndrome...i cant even spell the word...hahaha...

edit;
man that post is trippy...how did i write liek that???meh...

[Nominus Experse]

Damn, Jowy beat me to it. lovehurts was an idiot, end of story.

But I recall that there was a certain thread created by a member called Supermillionaire that, well, was hard to take seriously. However, the thread eventually became nothing more than a place to insult this individual. Yeah, the story sucked, but meh...

It happens every once in a while, such is life. If you are not an idiot, you won't be subjected to such insults or ridicule here. Save for a few instances.

[Vincent, Thunder God]

hmmm...do you ever say to yourself vincent...man that screamin child in the mall had mental issues and a probably came from a bad home...lets not joke about him sprayin deodorant all over me....random example i know...but im nto thinkin sooo straight

...and maybe i have tourretz syndrome that forces me to put more then one full stop at the end of each sentence...nobody knows...well..except me of course...sooooo maybe before you start judging people you should consider the fact you dont know them...

and btw..i dont have tourretz syndrome...i cant even spell the word...hahaha...

If someone is unwell and attacked me, I would defend myself, but hope that the person gets help as well. People who are insane and violent need severe intervention so that they become well. It's almost as if a part of an insane man's mind wants to be a good person, and knows he's wrong to attack someone, but in his mind he can't control himself.

So I think that people are very ignorant in taking everything for face value. If a person does something terribly wrong, isn't there a chance that that person was unwell at the time? After all, who in their right mind would say, kill their own kids, or go on a suicide rampage in a school? There must be some higher reason than just seeking violence. Most of the time these people are either mentally ill or have been driven out of their minds with a harsh life, and maybe if they'd gotten help earlier it never would have happened. But society is just not accepting enough about mental illness for that person to get the help he or she needs.

[LunarWeaver]

Lovehurts showed too many attention seeking tendencies far too many times for me to take him seriously by the time he made that thread.

[Christmas]

K, guys. Let's make this thread into GANG ON NANNY MANUS thread. Post eveything negative about NANNY MANUS here. :bigsmile:

[sephirothishere]

uh..i neevr said attacked you...jus soem kid havin fun in a store....sprayin aerosols...

[Captain Maxx Power]

K, guys. Let's make this thread into GANG ON NANNY MANUS thread. Post eveything negative about NANNY MANUS here. :bigsmile:

NANNY MANUS likes to steal candy from babies, and then steal babies from their mothers. Then he eats them both, and uses the bones to build traps to catch more candy and babies. :bigsmile:

[Quindiana Jones]

Manus is fat and smells of BO.

[sephirothishere]

NANNY MANUS PENETRATED LOONY BoB!!!?!?!?!?!!

[Vermachtnis]

I have to say this one of the more friendlier forums I go to, unless your Manus.

[sephirothishere]

indeed...look at all the sigs with nanny manus getting decapitated...

[Old Manus]

Oh please. I want some proper insults, kiddies.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Oh please. I want some proper insults, kiddies.

NANNY MANUS likes Stacked and cried for ten days when it was cancelled.

[sephirothishere]

thats gotta hurt...i wouldnt recover from that one maxx...

[The Captain]

I always do my best to avoid insulting other people, and if a thread appears in EoEO, I almost always take it seriously, even if it's at my own expense. I'd rather be thought foolish for taking someone seriously than debase a serious topic by not giving it its proper due. However, there are almost certainly times when a pattern develops and then it becomes much harder to take what someone says purely at face value afterwards. These instances have been rare, but they must be acknowledged at least.

Take care all.

[Dr Unne]

It has happened here before. I always found it odd how on a forum with a likely higher-than-average population of real-life social outcasts, there are still outcasts. Outcasts among the outcasts.

[Bunny]

Oh please. I want some proper insults, kiddies.

You are the most incredible human being ever birthed on this earth. The pinnacle of human achievement.

Wait.

I'm really bad with insults.

Dammit.

[rubah]

It has happened here before. I always found it odd how on a forum with a likely higher-than-average population of real-life social outcasts, there are still outcasts. Outcasts among the outcasts.

We all want to be on top.

[o_O]

<a href="http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=32123">Yeah.</a>

[DarkLadyNyara]

I don't remember seeing it happen here, though I'm sure it has.

EDIT: Acutally, I remember one incident in EoEO where Leeza had to start handing out two week bans because someone was getting ripped by half the people who posted in his thread.

[LunarWeaver]

<a href="http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=32123">Yeah.</a>

I'm still lawling and it's been like an hour. If only this Faris the Guy was still around. He was a genius.

[starseeker]

Ganging up on idiotic n00bs happens fairly often.

[Quindiana Jones]

Manus gets arrested for indecent exposure every time he looks out the window.

[Loony BoB]

I can't remember any time that serious and outright insults were allowed. Either they're people joking around about their friends (and even then, they can get warned if they aren't careful) or else they aren't very blatant insults so much as criticism of the way they do things or something.

But no, nothing on the scale that you'd find being allowed at a lot of other large boards has ever happened at EoFF to my knowledge.

[Timerk]

It has happened here before. I always found it odd how on a forum with a likely higher-than-average population of real-life social outcasts, there are still outcasts. Outcasts among the outcasts.

It is not really that weird, when you think about it. Sadly, I think it is that gang mentality where if one person gets away with a rude comment, the next five people all think it is ok for them to jump in. Also, if people are being bullied or feel lonely in real life, they might want to take their aggression out on the forum whipping boy/girl. There are a lot of people out there who think it is cool and brave to kick people when they are down, and they is no better way to make your community feel tight-knit than to start excluding people.

Anyway, those are just some of the reasons it might happen.