- Joined
- Dec 19, 2022
There were trolls of course even then but they were often funny/harmless.
And people dealt with them directly by themselves, in creative ways. (Replying to a troll with a favorite recipe was one entertaining method.) Those were the days, alright. No Big Mommy Jannies distributing participation trophies and making everyone be kind™. When FaceBlot fired up there was a mass stampede to it from small single topic forums, kinda like how Big Box stores killed off the Mom & Pop joints the decade before. There were warnings about both, but most humans are very vulnerable to FOMO, especially if it there's "moar freedum" or "better value" on the other side.
