The problem with Norman and nighthawks reasoning is that this site is like the stadium and these comics are the home team. If the vast majority of the people in the stadium are cheering for the home team, you’re going to look like a jerk if you’re claiming to be a big fan while jeering the home team at the top of your lungs. If you’re repeating the same jeers over and over again, you’re even more of a childish jerk. Of course, you’re free to look like a jerk if you want, but don’t get all indignant when people call you on it, and don’t even try to suggest that it’s reasonable for the fans who are telling you to nix the jerkiness to stop cheering for their team. That wouldn’t make any sense in the stadium of your favorite team, and it doesn’t make any sense here on the Gasoline Alley page, either.
Besides, that kind of behavior on the internet, especially if you’re doing it to “make things interesting” as nighthawks suggests, qualifies you as a troll. Trolls ruin the experience for everyone but other trolls. If you find yourself enjoying the fact that you are getting a large number of people mad at you and that you are the center of everyone’s attention, I hate to break it to you, but you are a troll. If you wander onto a page where everyone is getting along and enjoying themselves talking about their favorite comic and you can’t resist the urge to ruin it for everyone, you are a troll. Trolls suck.
The problem with Norman and nighthawks reasoning is that this site is like the stadium and these comics are the home team. If the vast majority of the people in the stadium are cheering for the home team, you’re going to look like a jerk if you’re claiming to be a big fan while jeering the home team at the top of your lungs. If you’re repeating the same jeers over and over again, you’re even more of a childish jerk. Of course, you’re free to look like a jerk if you want, but don’t get all indignant when people call you on it, and don’t even try to suggest that it’s reasonable for the fans who are telling you to nix the jerkiness to stop cheering for their team. That wouldn’t make any sense in the stadium of your favorite team, and it doesn’t make any sense here on the Gasoline Alley page, either.
Besides, that kind of behavior on the internet, especially if you’re doing it to “make things interesting” as nighthawks suggests, qualifies you as a troll. Trolls ruin the experience for everyone but other trolls. If you find yourself enjoying the fact that you are getting a large number of people mad at you and that you are the center of everyone’s attention, I hate to break it to you, but you are a troll. If you wander onto a page where everyone is getting along and enjoying themselves talking about their favorite comic and you can’t resist the urge to ruin it for everyone, you are a troll. Trolls suck.