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hedgehog

(36,286 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:02 PM Oct 2013

the worst part about mean people is that

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they tempt you to be mean back. Sometimes I have to tell myself to step away from the keyboard and out of GD!

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the worst part about mean people is that (Original Post) hedgehog Oct 2013 OP

You did the right thing! NYC_SKP Oct 2013 #1

I will typically shower nasty people with courtesy and pleasantness. Scuba Oct 2013 #2

Don't take their bait! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2013 #3

Definitely. elleng Oct 2013 #4

Hatred and meanness UtahLib Oct 2013 #5

Sometimes, well one time, you start a thread that gets hidden due to the heading. cui bono Oct 2013 #6

I believe some of us are strong enough and brave enough to cast out the mean people... BlueJazz Oct 2013 #7

you want I should kick some GD ass, hedgehog? Skittles Oct 2013 #8

The 7 Recs plus the O.P. are why I love DU n/t UTUSN Oct 2013 #9

its the anonymity that makes people mean, online people say stuff they would never have the loli phabay Oct 2013 #10

I put my left hand here and my right hand here and go like THIS at them. MiddleFingerMom Oct 2013 #11

That's the major reason I use "ignore" csziggy Oct 2013 #12

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

1. You did the right thing!

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:06 PM

Oct 2013

They feed off our anger.

Better to come here for some good energy!

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

2. I will typically shower nasty people with courtesy and pleasantness.

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:10 PM

Oct 2013

They hate that.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,985 posts)

3. Don't take their bait!

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:11 PM

Oct 2013

They feed off your anger.

I just back away......

elleng

(131,722 posts)

4. Definitely.

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:24 PM

Oct 2013

UtahLib

(3,179 posts)

5. Hatred and meanness

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 08:33 PM

Oct 2013

will eat a person alive. It's difficult to save a person from him or herself.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)

6. Sometimes, well one time, you start a thread that gets hidden due to the heading.

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 09:12 PM

Oct 2013

Of course I never did that.

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

7. I believe some of us are strong enough and brave enough to cast out the mean people...

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 09:16 PM

Oct 2013

....so they are not able to be mean to the populace again.
Jury

Skittles

(153,497 posts)

8. you want I should kick some GD ass, hedgehog?

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 09:21 PM

Oct 2013

LEMME AT THEM!!!

UTUSN

(70,890 posts)

9. The 7 Recs plus the O.P. are why I love DU n/t

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 10:11 PM

Oct 2013

loli phabay

(5,580 posts)

10. its the anonymity that makes people mean, online people say stuff they would never have the

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 10:23 PM

Oct 2013

Courage to say in real life. So its pent up and released online.

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

11. I put my left hand here and my right hand here and go like THIS at them.

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2013, 10:55 PM

Oct 2013

csziggy

(34,141 posts)

12. That's the major reason I use "ignore"

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 01:29 AM

Oct 2013

If someone irritates me so much that I am tempted to be mean back or do something that could get me banned, I'll add them to my ignore list for a while. I check my ignore list every so often and if I can't remember why I added people to the list, I take them off. Usually I clear the list completely and start fresh.