I was so happy when I found AC. I was in need of knowledge and support in my caregiver role.
I did find many supportive answers and have made in my heart friends.
But lately I read questions/answers that I know are not real.. How can someone be so cruel?
I know just ignore them! But they more than often ruin a question by making it become off topic..
I just don't know if ANY questions are real or not..
It's sad to think that another caregiver is where I was last year and needs support and some mean spirited person is answering their question with bad intentions....
Why do some people have to ruin a good thing?
I truly fear for her mother's safety, if she actually *is* caring for her mother. This person is truly disturbed and needs serious help.
GA: See if you can locate a post with the title" Burnt out ...And only two weeks"
I don't have a name for the poster. Tell me what you think.
Luanner, glad the analogy could help. As to why people troll, shutdown websites or even hack, I think it's more than just having time on their hands from not having legitimate jobs. There's a criminal intent involved with these people.
Have you ever read about the attacks on American government sites? The DOD, SOS, Los Alamos and others have been hacked, some by the Chinese. I've read that the Russians are busy hacking as well. That's only the government attacks - what about all the scumbags who hack banks and financial institutions and steal thousands of credit card numbers?
Unfortunately, I suppose there will always be a criminal element too lazy or stupid to do legitimate work and which will find ways to behave in socially unacceptable ways that could affect all of us.
The more I've been on this site the more I'm begining to realize that there are more trolls here than on any forum on which I've spent time. I think the topics discussed are ripe for troll attacks, and this is also a predominantly female forum, so the responses are almost always sympathic and supportive rather than suspicion that we're being played.
Several people commented that they consider the 'regulars' on this site as friends. I feel the same way. Scarlett O'Hara said " I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Yes, we are strangers to each other, in that we have never met. But we are friends in ways that not all are lucky enough to share. This horrifying illness has brought us together and made us the very definition of "friend"
And I think I have become the definition of ' long winded'
Love to you all and remember " MEAN PEOPLE SUCK"
i appreciate the new demons sent my way . life would be a bag of suck without them ..
I have to admit sometimes I have to physically restrain myself from putting them in their place..
The world has a lot of evil.... why are ya'll surprised that it seeps thru on our site...???? Last I checked, we still live in 'Murica, and there is still free speech.... the deal is to ban together and get the negativity off our safe place.... just look at it as a challenge to our 'sisterhood and Captain'.....I don't let just anyone in my home or in my space... I take action to prevent that.... just as we did.... so it's all good... right?....
I've had a few situations of people literally going for my jugular..... thing is.. I am still here and they are not..... but at the same time we don't want to get a 'mob mentality' or become the AC Police...... that's what we have admin for..... we aren't going to like everyone,like the way they post, or their subject matter... so don't participate in the ones you find offensive.....How can we stay positive and supportive and still allow this to be a place for people to come, with being so judgmental sometimes..... I'm not saying don't address a poster that is causing problems..... but again.... AC has set up mods to take care of things like that.... we have a choice if we allow someone to get us sidetracked. I never read Dusty after her first few posts..... if I already know what it's going to say, why keep reading it.....????? That's just my little 2 cents here, but we need to get real about the world we live in..... I would think on any given day, admin has their hands full with all of us.... hugs to you all.....
Some are more sophisticated than others, including one who shall remain nameless who led many of us on a merry chase before accidentally tripping up by revealing conflicting information in a subsequent post. But I suspect he/she will be back in a few weeks or months, with another well crafted story to tear at our individual and collective heartstrings.
What I've never figured out is why these people don't channel their efforts toward something positive, and why and how they've becomeso perverted that they find delight in tricking others.
Obviously there's some social dysfunction there - maybe they're the traditional geeks who are devoid of interpersonal skills, living on junk food and pop surrounded by banks of computers in a dismal dark room where they spend most of their waking lives.
Maybe I'm just feeling all sympathetic but I absolutely hate when people are just plain mean!!
But from what I've read, some hackers can either coordinate, or by using malware take over innocent folks' computers, and initiate posts ranging from simultaneously to repeatedly at short intervals. If your computer is compromised, you lose control of it as it's turned into a robot for the hackers.
Perhaps a nontechnological comparison could be the lines of people that camp out overnight and jam stores on the day after Thanksgiving. There are so many of them that the stores literally can't conduct business, although they somehow manage to do, but sometimes not without injury to customers.
In your mind, multiply the numbers that camp out by a factor of 10 or so, and you'll see that the crowds would be so large no one could even move.
The website becomes overwhelmed with so many posts and literally shuts down. This is a good explanation of how a DDOS works: searchsecurity.techtarget/definition/distributed-denial-of-service-attack.
This article provide information on the extent of DDOS attacks: computerweekly/news/2240223221/More-action-needed-to-stop-NTP-DDoS-attacks-says-report
If the links are deleted by the admins, Google "DDOS Attacks".
These are strictly negative, malevolent and vicious attacks designed to completely shut down a targeted website.
Hope this helps.
GladI'mHere, the fact that information is so freely shared on Facebook, mined and gleaned for advertising purposes, is one of the reasons Zuckerberg has become a billionaire - he collects personal information voluntarily posted on Facebook and leverages it into advertising.
Here's what I did. I set up a FB page in my husbands name. Then go to your page and you will see what strangers see. Then, friends yourself, go to your page and you can see what your friends see.