Okay, I believe this is going to hurt one or two people. Or possibly more. But I simply love those people who annoy other people on tagboards or comments. The psychology involved is very interesting.
First up, this is something I call inverse-influence. Influence is basically making someone do something or similar because of one's action or ideals. Inverse-influence is basically disrupting that someone's base options and decisions because of one's actions or ideals.
For example, the moment that whoever post some nasty comments, the first thing that usually results is retaliation. There after backup comes, and friends retaliate as well, in order to reinforce the whole retaliation move. Technical work comes into play, removal of IP, tracking, removing messages, cover-ups. Sleuth work isn't ignored as well. People start to think who the heck the person is. Unless largely generalized, the chances of a stranger insulting another stranger is more or less improbable. So obviously there should be the very least some kind of relation, however it is. Not just on the tagboard, it spills sometimes to the blog itself, blog posts about the person and stuff.
Inverse-influence is the easiest kind of influence to make, mainly because one is making thyself the point of aggression or annoyance. Right now I can apply it. I know what to say to a certain people that will make another certain person hate me. I know how to make people avoid me. I know how to make people talk bad about me.
All these hating, avoidance, talking bad, takes up time, energy and space. And this inverse-influence is doing exactly what it is supposed to do, making sure that at least some thoughts, energy, time is wasted into thinking about it.
The whole thing about influence is that whether you do something about it or not, it still means you're either being influenced, or resisting influence, which both falls under inverse-influence, that's why it is so subtly annoying.
Influence is making someone do something or not. Inverse-influence is making someone do something or not, but who's actions and thoughts are towards a point which are usually negative.
Someone once said to me, am I easily influenced? And that is not a valid question at all. Influence is there. You do something or don't do something, something else will or will not do something. Nothing is still something, and nothing these days can do a lot of things. Every action accounts for about some 0.000000000167% influence over the resulting action, but this is too biased. In actual fact, every thing anyone does that we are aware of or not accounts for a vastly higher percentage of influence over our actions or inactions. That is something everyone has to at least know.
Check this out if you want. Walk with anyone. Stop walking and ask him/her to stop for awhile. Obvious movement? No. Direct result of influence. This tagboard annoyance thing is the same thing, except more visible.
Influence, inverse-influence, is scary. And we can't run away from it. Just like how after I read about the tagboard incident from some of my friends I wrote this. It is inescapable.
By the way, whatever happened to replying just "I forgive you." and then ignoring the person totally? Whether it works or not, I just like forgiving these people. They give me a chance to do forgiving! That which is SO COOL. But nobody bad mouths me on my blog. T.T
Something to do with not knowing it exist or something...