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Thanks for making my point for me, doing the research I can't be arsed to do.
It's every match thread, every week. It's the same culprits. And then we get the same (@Bobbins) insistence that people are confusing legitimate criticism with expressions of fury. We aren't. We have no difficulty telling the difference at all, because we all post criticism too, instead of posting rage. When we play badly, I'm as harsh as the next civil person, but I don't spit hate at our own players. I don't spit hate at other clubs' fans and players either, but I try to avoid getting involved in that, rather different debate.
The division here is between three groups of people. 1. the rage-babies who splatter this spitting rage at out players, all over every match thread. 2. The people who insist that "it's OK" to behave like that, because it's "reasonable frustration". 3. Normal, sane people who don't enjoy being exposed to toxic characters.
It is not OK to behave like that, to vent fury and hate in a public place - and this is a public place.
People are hiding behind their usernames. It's very conspicuous that the small minority of us who use our real names never do this. It's not a coincidence, which is why I used the word "coward" in an earlier post. It's people who think it's OK to behave on the internet in ways they might get arrested for, if they did it in person and took responsibility for the way they act.
When people cannot exert enough self-control to suppress this degree of panic, hate and howling rage online, then they are trolls: they are not good people. They are cowards, hiding behind pseudonyms so they can vent their socially unacceptable level of anger all over the rest of us.
My tactic has long been to avoid the match threads during games. But when I come on here after a 4-1 away win, after we have overcome the loss of our best player to win in a canter, and find that they're still at it, an hour or more after the final whistle, it's not OK. It's trolling.
It's actually a privately owned and moderated forum for your information first of all.
Secondly, you seem like a really angry person and it feels like you probably haven't really met a truly "hate-filled" person before if you think that people here criticising a football performance are hiding behind anonymity to be cowards and if you think any of what people say on here could have them arrested anywhere outside of your little puritan social justice, trial by internet bubble then you are incredibly delusional, take that garbage to twitter.
The only person spewing hatred here was you, you launched the personal attacks, you spewed sexism and now you are being hyperbolic and hypocritical I am seeing an incredible amount of self-projection from you.