Seems Ska penetrated the impenetrable armor of our dear friend, which caused him to say "**** you," which caused a ban....would be my guess. Saying **** you to people has pretty much always been a no no unless it's clearly obvious you are joking.
The thing is, I wasn't even trying to do anything either. He'd been blowing up my alerts button the last couple of days and I didn't respond because I decided to go back to being done with this, I was bored of it and I'm aware that wasting my life on Internet fights is one of my bad habits that filled in the empty spaces of my own mind, because I'm not engaged enough in life (which could be a separate thread itself) and something I never should have let myself fall into in the first place. I was doing literally nothing, and he got all mad at me out of nowhere.
That's why I was kind of surprised, like, "I wasn't even saying anything to you dude" - it has to be because I was denying him the attention/reaction he was looking for.
I still maintain that when I told someone "**** you" on here, among other things, and was banned for it, I was in the right, banning me was wrong, the insults I dished out were only in reaction to the way this person was treating me and others, and wouldn't have even happened in the first place if this person had been dealt with earlier because all they wanted to do here was antagonize people they thought were small enough to pick on. I still feel like my anger was 100% justified and I don't know why this person was allowed to bully people for months on end, when, like Athelstan, it was obvious that he didn't give a crap about being a sincere member of the community but just wanted to insult and harass people for his own childish kicks. It was pretty much the same personality - these weird, pedantic but not actually intellectual, vaguely right-wing "nerdy" guys - except Athelstan had an extra dose of mental issues instead of just immaturity, a sense of superiority, contemptuousness, and malice. That person was more genuinely hateful, than mentally unstable. And self-righteous as all hell - again, he didn't get that the way he treated people was the problem despite multiple people reacting the same way, nothing was ever his fault, we were all "out to get him" too. But it's like, why defend someone like that, when it's obvious what they are? For their right to...screw with people here? How is someone who does nothing but pick on people, worthy of protection while I was the bad guy? I was so mad I almost quit the site for good over it.
I don't regret my anger, although I guess I can concede that I didn't need to be as graphic about it. The reason I swore so much was that it was online, and all I could do was talk. If someone talked to me or treated me that way offline, I would have been
well past the point of talking - and the fact that I knew that they only had the guts to insult me
because it was online and they were safe from the consequences of talking ****, only made me angrier. Between the smug, condescending attitude, the obvious insults that were just barely within the letter of the law that showed he knew full well what he was doing, the lack of decency and honor by defacing my threads on sensitive topics, the pettiness and cowardice, and the sycophantic behavior, it was all too much for me - as was the fact that
anyone could side with such a person. But what I do regret, is that in showing my anger, I unintentionally gave the person the satisfaction of making them feel like they got to my emotions, which felt like a "win" to them even though I cursed them out, because that's what they're really after. I'm finally on to their game and I'm not giving that satisfaction again. Sometimes I think a well-placed curse is deserved, but if I have to be sarcastic instead of direct, so be it. Two can play.
Like with the people who used to bully me in childhood, I don't forgive anyone involved who sided against me, they have lost my respect permanently and I'm done with them as people. But I do try to forget. Like with the childhood bullying, it happened, and I don't forgive, because it wasn't and isn't OK. But it doesn't affect me anymore either. I don't hold on to the weight. The people involved don't exist to me anymore. I don't count it as an impactful part of my life, I cut it out. Generally I try not to talk to people that anger me at all, because it's not worth it, all it can do is get me mad, so there's nothing for me to gain from it and lots to lose.
At the end of the day, I decided to stay because I'd rather give a greater weight and voice to the many people that have made being on this site a good experience, rather than the few who have not.
Seriously, grow up and get a life.
heheheh mines got an egg in it innit 
