So I think the worst thing about running online communities is that fundamentally you have to spend at least some of your time dealing with incredibly unpleasant people who want to do nothing more than fuck you and said community over simply because they think they’re more interesting, important and valuable than absolutely everyone else in the world around them. Particularly infuriating is when said people aren’t prepared to take responsibility for their actions – they spend two years – more even – trying to be a hate figure at all costs, and then decide that the way they’re being represented is unfair and unpleasant and think that maybe threatening to sue could solve everything. The sheer amount of bullshit that I’ve had to put up with around this is intolerable, the people I’ve had to counsel who think that they might be on the end of a campaign of hate and reprisals because they’re clearly dealing with a fucking psycho… Nnngh. Let’s just say that it’s getting tired (for the thousandth time) really fucking quickly…
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