Trolls will troll

Things like this don’t bother me much; not any more. I’m past the stage where I care. Trolls will always troll, and some people on the Internet will always be as nasty as they can possibly be, safe in the knowledge that their words can extend to insults without repercussion.

This person / these people would not dare say that to my face – or anyone else’s for that matter. For face time with that sort of language, there will most certainly be repercussions. Maximum.

It all began with this review comment by Neahahul: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary-gb/reviews/

My response was typed with a smile, thinking: OK. You found something that is not for you, so why the insults? Whatever, you think I’m a “jerk”, I don’t really care, dude! Go away.

Then an email from Github arrived. Github? Oh, I still have an account on there for some of my archived repos… let’s see what this is about. I scanned the email which included this looooonnnng comment, didn’t get what it was about, so logged in to read it at source.

Here it is: https://github.com/kaubu/oxford-english-language-tools/issues/3

Still chuckling from yesterday (and immediately connecting the dots), this issue raised on someone else’s repo mentioned me. I am assuming the troll thinks that they found another repo of mine and would troll that one too, using the same “your extension name is misleading” argument before launching into personal insults. Maybe the troll is a bot? Who knows. Who cares?

I’ve commented enough on Github about this, and do not wish to expend any more time or energy dignifying the misdeeds of others with further response. I did, however, as an afterthought, think: this makes excellent fodder for a blog post AND I can keep typing into Jottings to find more bugs. So, do both? That, is better energy direction. Oh, and British Language Tools is in need of an update…shocking! The last update was in January. Thanks for the prompt, troll person/bad AI spammer bot.

Kaubu issued a response, and an apology for dragging me into Part Two. No love lost there; I told them so, spellchecking my response in beautiful British English spelling. Kaubu, meanwhile, most likely spellchecked their comment using their wonderfully crafted Oxford English spelling dictionary.

One love.