i_like_1981 wrote:Well, as much as I hate bigheaded bullying goons like him, it is interesting to see how their reactions are to a website like this one that dares to speak out against the institutions they hold so dear. Their responses do seem somewhat predictable. Samdaman's responses seemed to fulfil all the stereotypical expectations I'd have of a person coming on here with an abusive, authoritarian attitude. Needless, unjustified and unsupported insults? Most certainly. Persistance? Most definitely. Intention to bring down the system by disguising themselves as somebody else? Check. Inability to respond intelligently and just throwing out abuse whenever they feel challenged? Yep. I personally wouldn't expect anything more from a mindless bully. I know you are keen on debating and discussing, Earl, and have no interest in using the internet to argue or quarrel with vicious opponents but for me, that's part of the fun. I figure that if people come on here and start giving abuse at an extreme level without any prior provocation or any real-life connection to us personally then there nothing wrong with fighting fire with fire. Some people just won't be gotten through to. I do think you could have gotten through to this guy if you'd been on this forum back then and hopefully even started a reasonable discussion but it just can't be known for sure seeing as how you weren't and all he wanted to do was cause fights. We can only judge this guy based on what he posted on here back then and I certainly wouldn't say he sounded like someone willing to have a proper discussion!
Best regards,
i_like_1981
i_like_1981, I must admit that I, too, find Samdaman's
reactions to a website like this one to be interesting. I don't understand the psychology behind them. If any psychological studies have been done examining this phenomenon, I'd sure like to be informed of their existence so I could read them. I'm really not kidding when I say this. One webpage I recently discovered, though, said that bullying in sports is a sensitive subject that has not been discussed in any detail.
I like your checklist of predictability. I wonder if Samdaman
realizes that he gives other football players, including the decent ones, a bad name or if he believes that he speaks for most of them.
Thanks for the compliment, i_like_1981; but there is a side to my online personality that you may not be aware of. You should check out some (actually, I should say "many") of the posts I've submitted at the able2know.org website, where my username is "wmwcjr." In the topic entitled "Welcome Sports Haters!" I lost my temper
twice, first to kuvasz (to whom I later apologized publicly in a post) and later to cycloptichorn (to whom I later apologized in a PM). I know that topic has many pages; but if you check out all of my posts in that topic, you will see that I started off rather angrily. At another topic entitled "Do you know how to handle bullying?" I lost my temper with two other members (who truly were offensive) whose usernames are hawkeye10 and pangloss, I called them names and put them on "Ignore" permanently. You might be surprised at my online personality in that thread as well. Apparently, I am willing to have a discussion with someone who has a different point of view; but I have my limits. If someone expresses a particularly repellent point of view (such as hawkeye10 and pangloss' view that bullying is a social good), I may lose my temper. I have no patience with the view they hold about bullying, any more than I would with someone who was a Holocaust denier or someone who defended Joseph Stalin. Later I regret losing my temper; but I still have no patience with evil views, as opposed to simply being wrongheaded.
If Samdaman
were posting here, I would try to reason with him by asking him some questions in all sincerity; but there still would be the possibility of losing my temper with him, too. But as you might say, it would be fun!
But it's hilarious! 
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