Really guys, watching this parakeet drama from both sides of it has been pretty sad. I mean maybe he thinks this place is full of devious master trolls cunningly plotting his downfall, but all I'm seeing is the cruelty without the funny or the clever that is the mark of quality trolling.
First, the target is another Aspie with classic AS issues like paranoia, a reliance on authority figures for problem solving, naivety, etc, and strong religious views to boot. Anyone could troll a guy like that, that's just clubbing a baby seal. Where's the challenge?
The only people I ever really went after on WP had their names in green, and they had to seriously bend their own rules to ban me, and only after months of me in their faces. Getting the ban reversed was the final slap in the face to them, and far more satisfying than just making some guy mad because it's easy.
Secondly, the "trolling" itself has been just sub-par. Gay jokes? Fat jokes? Imposter profiles on third party sites? Really? I think not having to worry about mods and rules has made people lazy. If I want to fuck with someone on WP, I can call them a jerk, a moron an asshole and a loser without ever using those words and still have the message get through loud and clear, it just takes a bit more thought and deviousness. Anyone can make a dummy account and get in a few personal shots before the mods there delete them, doing it in such a way that no rules are technically broken and there is no pretext for action takes much more skill. I know there are people here who can do it, but I'm just not seeing it here.
Finally, the justification. Like I mentioned before, it looks an awful lot like people are bullying an Aspie for reacting like an Aspie to being taunted, not cool in my book. If it really was all about the lulz a la 4chan, there wouldn't be the self righteous justifications, either own the behavior or don't do it, don't wuss out by making it about "avenging" homophobia or some bullshit about threats.
Now that he's come in here of his own volition, that's sort of accepting whatever comes his way here, but what went on earlier in the year with the fake profiles and such was seriously fucked. Schoolyard bullshit, and without even the risk of an asskicking that being a dick to someone in person carries. I expected better.
Hmm, perhaps this should have gone in callouts...