I've been on forums and Facebook groups for donkeys years and we've all seen examples where some folk can get a bit emosh and heated from time to time.
But I had an experience a day or two back that just left me shocked and appalled on a Facebook Group. I'm not saying which one but the behaviour evidenced and language used were unreal. The guy who runs it was seeing himself as some kind of tone god who is completely intolerant of others perspectives, with accusations of them having $20000 gear with $2 ears, and other people don't know shit. He was aggressive, abusive, condescending, completely obnoxious and was behaving like a 5 year old in a playground and calling me a scaredy cat and running away when I said I was leaving the group. The guy had a chip on his shoulder the size of the empire state building and was going on about how he was sharing his wisdom for free, yet calling names, insults etc. I promise you I'm not exaggerating but the guy just seemed to have a god complex and was the tone messiah and you were a piece of shit unless you agreed and fawned to everything he said.
It was just surreal and in all my years I've never seen or been subject to anything like it. I'm struggling to even convey how nasty this was because I just cant get my head around it. The guy has his own website, sells stuff, has YouTube etc so seems to be pretty well known.
Since leaving the group the messages have gone from my FB messages, and in hindsight I should have saved these, just as evidence. Needless to say I didn't go down to his level until my last leaving message telling him to f..g grow up! Even that's not typical of me.
Obviously there are more important things to worry about and I'm a pretty level headed guy so I'm not losing sleep over it. But I just felt that I had to post my experience. What in goodness name goes through these people's minds to think they can treat people with this type of behaviour? It was just extraordinary.
I started out with nothing..... but I've still got most of it left (Seasick Steve)
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Is that FB for Facebook or FB for Fretboard? I'm so confused I'm going to have to lie down
Leave those pricks to wallow their tiny pool.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
The obnoxious character described in the opening post reminds me of the Vogon ship captain in The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. He expects to be told how good you think his poem was.
I just can’t get my head round the aggression and point scoring that takes place.
Sorry you got the brunt of someone else’s tantrum - but dare I say it can happen at the drop of a hat.
I did recently have a chuckle at a thread on Relics. An OP was asking for advice on methods, logistics etc, and another poster said they didn’t like Relics and it was all a load of nonsense (words to that affect). There then ensued a mildly heated argument about why post on someone else’s advice thread if you don’t like Relics in the first place !!! Which is fairly appropriate - but what made me laugh was just how quickly it got there....so easy !
At this point, I guess am I supposed to say:
’quit mithering and play yer bleedin’ guitar’ !!!