Why I don't frequent forums anymore

[AllenETreat]

A few years ago I registered with BladeForums.com. I then put
up my first thread and was immediately confronted by the forumites
that frequent there. They questioned amongst themselves whether
or not I "looked like a "troll"". ( funny, I never posted any images! )
After awhile this clique continued getting more and more sarcastic
( they just love that quote function! ) Then I ended up getting
dumped on in the Whine & Cheeze forum.

Ken ( Kasten ) who doesn't frequent here much anymore put it
eloquently : "they're just a buncha kids, Al." ( with knives yet! )
Having a terminal disease, a checkered past and such may not be
common to the forumites of BladeForums.com or here, but it's little reason,
IMO, to call someone an "AIDS infested phuck" ( that's supposed to be
with a "f" gang. ) I also "mis-quote" literature -

Paradise Lost by John Milton :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Story

Lucifer challenges the Almighty by proclaiming : "It is far better to rule on the
earth than to serve in the heavens..."


It is the charge of the cyber-idiot box geeks like this to form cliques in forums
( sorta like prison gangs ; I guess they're learning early! ) and "run the place".

Hence I try not to be involved as much anymore. I spend more time at the
Jam Session ( guitarists forum ) than I do here. So far so good, but I wonder...

On the other hand, musicians don't strike me as being uptight ( or snobbish about what kind of
guitar ( "axe" ) you play ) I also disagree that a pocketknife has to co$t $300(!) to
be "quality" ( witness the Spyderco MeerKat, Cricket or Jester )

Anyone else had something more than mere literary jousting done to them? ( Let us not forget the hate e-mails from the clique. )

What say the augurers? *

AET

* Here's another one : Why do I use this expression? It's a snippet from
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ( Act II, Scene II ). I think it ironic as Caesar
was assassinated in, of all places, a forum.