Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.

This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it’s just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you’ve driven away someone who could’ve been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.

There’s nothing prideful about this to flex over.

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      For sure, but even mean cats can get along with people. It’s more about respecting and understanding then. That’s why people use them as that test, if they can respect the asshole cat’s feelings then you know they’ll respect yours.

    • aburrito@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 days ago

      Actually, adding most people don’t know what mean cats actually act like and it’s almost always a communication failure on the humans part. Hissing isn’t aggression it’s just them being “easy, chief I need some space” and there are usually body language indicators waaaaaaay beforehand. Unless you’re fostering cats or around feral cats often you’ve probably never met an asshole cat, just a stressed one (especially if you’ve never met them before, it’s like a dude on the street suddenly going in for a hug, a push away isn’t being mean it’s like back off a lil I wasn’t aware that was happening idk who you are)

      edit, dogs are very similar and we just don’t watch their body language close enough to properly read how they’re trying to communicate. it’s very frustrating when you notice cause it’s kinda like, how else would you know unless someone chronically online told you or you know a pet behaviorist