What did Alex (Plank) do wrong?

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Enon Ereh, John-E Twoshoes, and Dickley Vaginel all appear to be troll accounts. I mean, look at the last one's name.

Jacoby that video was damn funny

You get a lot of immature youngsters on the internet, and they mostly think they can post such nasty comments on YouTube. Also they accuse some people in videos of doing a crime when they're not, like say if a man is bouncing a happy baby on his knee, you get a load of "child abuse" and "bad parents" comments. It's terrible.

I always wonder if that people's internet bullying, nasty persona is the real them they can't use IRL or a bad part of a mostly nice person.

The internet is a place to find a bunch of stupid people.

If people are banned from WP, why do they go through the trouble of looking up an Alex interview to make nasty comments on? Is that like the online equivalent of throwing toilet paper at his house? Except it's not his house, it's more like a coffee shop he once stopped at?

I don't get trolling. It seems like it would take up a lot of time.

I saw your post and decided to do the same. Commenting sections are a waste of space.

I think that's it exactly.

Here's an excerpt of a story from This American Life that highlights the absurdity of online comments:

source: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-a ... transcript

To put it bluntly Youtube by way of any other social media sites are full of trolls. I for one am glad I have found this site/community and have communicated with some pretty awesome people So thanks Alex for this page.

Yes. Here's something I found out on my Youtube channel: some of these people posting are children, I mean literal children...like 11 or 12 years old. They'd let that info slip somewhere along the line of the abuse. They think they're cool because they can swear on the internet and Mom will never know. They're literally kids being kids, trying to do something the adults don't let them do. So they will literally start a sh*tstorm and/or will swear anonymously. The same way a preschooler will sit there and say "poop, poop, poop" over and over again just to see the adults freak out. It's titillating because it gets a reaction and because they know they're "not supposed to" do it - but on the internet there's the added bonus of, they can't get in trouble because, unless Mom catches them at it, nobody knows it's them who's doing it; they're anonymous.

For people who are older than that, you've got a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE population of "angry teens" as well. They are miserable so they look for a place to lash out. The internet is PERFECT for that...again, because it's anonymous.

I'm not saying adults can't also be morons on the internet. They can be. But you can often tell the difference. Most (though not all) adults trolling on YT and elsewhere will have a degree more finesse and will add a lot of "catch phrases" - strawman comes to mind, can't think of others but you know them when you see them. Adults who do this sort of thing have sort of a grownup version of the "angry teen" (feel helpless IRL and can't ever speak out, or don't think they can, for fear of consequences). And then a small percentage will just actually disagree with what you're saying for their own reasons, but either not explain that well (or at all), or will simply lash out. And many "trolls" troll because it gets them attention; again, the logical conclusion is that they have no friends IRL and/or simply can't get anyone's attention and feel invisible; so, like three-year-olds, they quickly realize that being very negative will get them LOTS of attention, and fast. (Which is sad but it's a real phenomenon.)

The internet is amazing for people with social issues, but the downside is that it also attracts a lot of true antisocials and/or people with big, big, big problems, because they can lash out and mock and jeer and swear and tear somebody else down the way they'd rather tear down their boss, spouse, in-law, etc. in real life but know they can't.

The internet is sort of Miserable Helpless Person Heaven. We used to have to actually face our own issues and problems; today, we can just lash out and feel all cozy inside for having ejected those wretched feelings onto the next person and made him/her feel small - without "getting in trouble for it" (anonymity), without having to see the person's face fall and feel bad, without having to actually literally listen to and see the response but rather, have time to collect our thoughts and think of a truly horrible jab in response to the response we're inevitably going to get from the person we've hurt. I love the internet, don't get me wrong, it's a treasure trove of information, but I swear the very second the internet became cheap and accessible, the Crazies came rushing in with a collective cheer of "Yay!"

It's Youtube!

The most innocuous, goodhearted, interesting, fun or valuable material can still attract comments of the caliber of "Suuucks, tool!" Seriously, you could post a video of someone finding the definitive cure for cancer or rescuing a puppy, and it would have 3,000 "thumbs down" and 800 troll comments.

LOL...yup!