What's your take on people who use the "About Me" profile page as a platform for verbally attacking other Answerbaggers?
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Jodie44
ANSWERS: 43
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It seems a bit desperate to go to those lengths just to make someone feel bad.
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At least it's a personal place that is not broadcast on the front page, unlike this question.
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I think it's rather like children who tattle to the teacher over every perceived slight on the play ground. Everything is about them so they think other people will care.
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Well...so much for "About Me"... I've never seen it, but then again, I don't read profiles very often.
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Whoever does that is Stupid. I am sorry but that is just straight up Childish & Sad. Thank you for the Attention Trolls. I Love the Downrates and the Attention. It makes me feel happy you all take the time to read my answer and DR it. Thanks Again. Much Love :)
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Seems a strange thing to do. Has to have a warped personality to want to go to those lengths this is a website not a battlefield.
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I enjoy that kind of thing.
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Hi Jodie, I sometimes take out my general frustrations on my "about me" page, but I don't think I do it to the point that it would be considered verbally attacking. At least I hope not.
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well, if the shoe fits, stick it up someones butt I guess.
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Spiteful and usually full of malice, half truths and distorted facts. Having been the subject of a couple, I know that they are usually a load of rubbish from people that are trying to do a payback for what they perceive as a dent to their usually enormous ego. I very rarely see any of them because I just do not read profiles very often. A lot of them are just so self congratulatory.Others are a total whine about everyone and everything as if we cannot whine and bitch enough in comment threads and answers :)
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I've noticed that on a lot of people's "about me" section and I find it rather juvenile and childish. I don't usually look at someone's profile unless someone sends me a friend request who's name I don't recognize, or someone is being abusive and rude in the Q&A forums and I'm curious enough to see if they done this very thing. It's a good indication that that person is probably a troll and/or will be equally abusive in asking/answering questions.
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I think it's not very nice to use one's "About Me" page to attack other Answerbaggers. OTOH, I think if someone else attacks you on their page, then you have the right to defend yourself on your own page and even make counter claims (within reason). Fortunately, I don't think this has happened on AB in years since the ratings wars of 2005 have ended. At lest I've seen no sign of it among the circle of people whom I interact with on AB routinely.
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Classless. It always amazes me that they don't seem to realize how much more it says about them than whoever it is they're complaining about. Good question;)
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People actually do that? I havn't changed my profile for a while now, all it has is a few quotes and a song I rather like in it.
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That would be pretty damn sad, especially since the person being insulted can't react directly. Cowardly.
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Pretty darn rude.
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didn't know people do that. seems pointless to fight in a cyberworld with people you barely know anything about.
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I think it is rather childish and rude...and also quite vain. Vain to think that people are going to be so interested in them as to want to know anything more.
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It's bad because they know very well that the person being attacked can't respond to it. It's convenient for them.
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I think it's immature, and silly.
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to me they are just poor little wanna be's who have no life of their own so they choose to attack someone else's ...smacks of jealousy and gutlessness ...but I suppose thats all you can expect out of 6 years olds
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It's an attempt to influence others who a)aren't involved in whatever situation inspired the negativity and/or b) have never interacted with the user being bashed. It can also be an attempt to justify their own behavior. I can't think of any other reason to post such things on a public website. I've read a lot of great "About Me" pages that prompted me to get to know that person better. A profile page in which someone spotlighted grievances against others would make me stay as far as possilbe from that person.
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How pathetic does someone's life have to be? I mean we think of downraters and trolls as "pathetic", especially those who DR perfectly good questions and answers, and those who ask idiotic questions with a(n) ABer's(s') name in it... So how demented and pathetic does a person have to be to put someone's name in their profile. GEEZE. I don't believe I've ever seen any that "name names", and, if I did, and I found they were on my "friends" list, they wouldn't be for long. (I always check profiles and a few Q/A/Cs before accepting a friend, and have found NOTHING like this in any profiles I accepted as friends. If someone's changed, please let me know! I don't normally check up on what's new in profiles, unless someone references a prior question or troll.) So... My take is "more pathetic than anything else on AB to my knowledge."
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Not nice. Not necessary. Not cool. Not wanted or welcome on ab.
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It seems to me that something like this would be reportable to the AB Staff. It's so silly. I have seen this myself and I would definitely not want a person like that on my friends' list. But then again, I have seen a lot of drama take place on the web, so I'm not surprise. I don't see much of it here on AB and that's one of the reasons I like this site so much.
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It honestly surprises me when I see that kind of thing. It seems a much too public way to air your dirty laundry, to me, and I don't understand what anyone has to gain from it. I think it makes the user look like they're throwing a little tantrum and I don't find that at all appealing.
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people do that? i guess that is what they are about... verbally attacking other people.. how sad and counter-productive.
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I have never seen it done, but wouldn't be surprised. I guess I think it's just counterproductive. That being said, I could easily determine whether or not to add that person as a 'friend'. :)
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It hasn't happened to me... yet
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I don't usually appreciate attacks of any kind. It goes back to kindergarten. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
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Do people really do that? I think it would be sad. Sad and uncalled for.
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I haven't seen anything like that really. If I did, I would just blow it off as I am realizing this is only the internet and I have more serious issues in real life to worry about.
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Do they? That would be very wrong.
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I had no idea this was going on. I also had no idea of just how much crap I'm able to miss here on Answerbag. I'm learning alot of interesting things about this place tonight. Anywho, my opinion is that if I were to learn the most about someone by listening to them put others down, it'd tell me all I needed to know. They wouldn't make it onto MY friends list...
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I haven't seen anythough like that though it's foolish to publicise their fight.
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It's about "ME" not anyone else... what poop heads.
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Well, in my personal opinion, people who use the "About Me" profile page as a platform for verbally attacking other Answerbaggers are cowards. I'm guessing that they do it there because the profile page doesn't have comments that you can add on to it and you can't take away points from it. Does this make sense? Therefore, they are actually insulting themselves.
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I think is just wrong i mean if you have a problem with a particular user there are other ways to solve the problem. I think is plain mean, maybe you dislike the user but it doesn't give you the right to attack them imo
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I would think they are assholes!!
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Personally I don't like the fact that anyone who would even verbally attack other users here on this site. That does not show any integrity or class. If one does like to be attacked in the first place, why attack others?
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I don't think that anything can stop other users from looking at your profile and attacking you. It's pretty stupid, but what can answerbaggers do? I don't have an About Me profile page. I used to, but I erased everything.
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That's a good way to have the AB-Staff pay some special attention to you. It's a no no. It's also childish. If you don't like somebody on the site, just ignore them. It's not hard if one has the ability to exercise a tiny bit of self-control.
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I don't think it's too good. I don't know if anybody has said stuff about me but it's possible. I really wouldn't want to know if they had.
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