Quote Originally Posted by Bobby66 View Post
Here is a million dollar question, cause I do not understand this. What is up with people nowadays getting bent out of shape over things they have zero control over. Why not take personal accountable for ones own self and learn to control how they personally deal with outside factors instead of trying to get the outside factor to bend to them. Someone makes fun of you, calls you bad, tells you to self delete w/e who freaking cares they are random strangers in a video game world, they are no better then NPC's in the grand scheme of things. Sure it hurts, but why give them the satisfaction.

I say this as someone got bullied often, and even went as far as planning the unthinkable due to it. Life is far too short to let assholes get under your skin.
One thing I will say is that emotional can cloud judgement. Its fine to say all that, and there is certainly allot of merit in learning to push on and not let strangers on the internet weigh you down, but bullying and the like can knock you down. It can cause you to irrationally believe whatever crap they are saying, or fly into rages of denial. Its that same for all sides. Plus for a number of different reasons, not everyone will be able to have such strong defences. As someone who has suffered alot with their mental health I feel I can say its not always easy to put such things into practise even if you have said tools. We cannot judge everyone by our own strengths or weaknesses.

Plus whilst I get its not what you mean, such approaches do have an air of ‘Blame the victim’ to it. There are those who will be defeated by simply ignoring them for sure (The old ‘Do not feed the trolls’ mofit has much value) letting such toxic behaviour fester without challenge can be worse.