The DCEmu Interview - Question 41 - Have You Ran Into Internet Hardmen/BullyBoys ?

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Todays Question is Have You Ran Into Internet Hardmen/BullyBoys ? - If so give some details

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My answer would be yes quite often, its amazing how hard people are behind a keyboard when in real life they are wimps, obviously its not always the case but youll find out that most of the very public hardmen are actually idiots who spend far too much time at a pc instead of the real world.

Should be an interesting thread for replies. :P

lol only hustling messages from online gameplay, then I prove em wrong, I can handle myself in reality but no bully lol but I know the type u mean, probably a majority of them are pot heads that be like it online, u can tell on mics

Well right now it's all getting a bit nasty between Freeplay and Erique555 over on qj

Yeah, they're everywhere. I don't mind it when they are telling off a real n00b who knows absolutely nothing about something but claims to be a pro at it. I don't think I've ever been on the end being bullied on the net. I've run into some real jerks but I can handle them for the most part.

I've realised recently that my responses on the DSLinux forums were getting more and more terse, verging on the downright rude in some cases.

http://dslinux.org/f0rums/viewtopic.php?p=3827#3827 - Toys out the pram
http://dslinux.org/f0rums/viewtopic.php?p=3755#3755 - Rant
http://dslinux.org/f0rums/viewtopic.php?p=3706#3706 - Terse response
http://dslinux.org/f0rums/viewtopic.php?p=3734#3734 - Sounding like an arsehole
http://dslinux.org/f0rums/viewtopic.php?t=838 - This ones my personal favourite
(Can anyone think of any others? I'm sure there's a few on gbadev.org that would make me cringe)

Looking back through some of the posts I've made, I feel embarrassed about how arrogant and bullyboy some of them are.

Sometimes you don't mean to be a bully and you only notice you are doing it when it's too late.

Still, I've left DSLinux development now for greater things, no users to support except myself so hopefully I'll lose the arrogance ;-)

I find them hilarious. Most of them just shy away when you shjow them the same treatment. ^_^ Educated trolls are another matter. If theyre witty and come up with decent reasons to back there arguements, these devils advocats make the interenet a fun place to argue. Without these educated trolls there would be no arguements deeper and more emotional than "NO U". These educated trolls introduced Malice and spite into a world of simplicity. Giving birth to the brilliance of humour similar to sarcasm. For that i thank them.

Ego`s are certainly a problem in the emulation and homebrew communitys, i may be a webmaster of this site but personally i feel no better or informed than anyone else and in reality im a big a noob as most on the forums here and elsewhere.

Although on many sites around the net some coders/webmasters seem to think they are gods

To me it's all site moderators to blame for abuse and bullying, go somewhere like maxconsole or qj and things can get nasty with no intervention from mods so you end up with a crappier class of member, but go somewhere like Dcemu and it seems you have higher standards.

well we are by no means perfect but we try.