the forum is based on rolling with the punches. if you question or fight the punches, it doesn't work. if you then throw your own punches, without rolling with others, you've become hypocritical. we've seen many come and go that were unable to handle it - it's not an easy methodology, but it is a simple one.
taking it (too) seriously is bad. if you can't have fun with it, then why bother doing it?
presactly. I have been on the receiving end (har har) my fair share of times. at first I would get pissy about it and complain about getting picked on, but anymore I find myself laughing along with most of it. it's about the art of the insult - any iconolast tard can throw together a half-assed photoshop of me, but it takes a nöwheremän or a jaburg to craft something genuinely inspired. you need to be able to laugh at yourself if you plan on getting through life without becoming an insufferable asshole and/or a serial killer.
and let's face it - some people just plain have it coming. however polite or well-mannered catfuck might have been, he was clearly not right in the head. numerous posters have come and gone who simply couldn't hack it for whatever reason. we are our own quality-control mechanism, and these boards just plain aren't for everyone. but whether or not you decide to stick around and figure out how to make it here, bitching about getting made fun of isn't gonna help your cause any.
