re: #1585 TheMatrix31

All right, Matrix. See, I’m not even calling you names here, because this is a serious post which is meant well, though I highly doubt you’ll take it that way, nor that anyone will give me credit for it.

I think you have some serious anger issues. I’ve been interacting with you for a while now, and you’ve been more or less unrelentingly hostile towards me and some others here. Even though I once helped you with a paper of yours— remember that? I do.

You’re a young guy. In college or just recently out, right? You’re way too young to have this much simmering anger and resentment. You express it here in your comments, and in your weird downdings. It’s clear you haven’t been happy with the way the commentariat here has changed, but I was serious when I said you seem to use this place as a way to deal with your misplaced aggression. I can’t remember the last time you contributing anything that wasn’t nasty.

I feel bad for you, often. Sure, I only know this (unpleasant) internet persona of yours, but I’ve still often thought that you seem sometimes to be in training for growing up to be an angry, old, lonely man.
Lighten up. It’s the internet. It has many uses and they don’t all have to be hostile.

I’ve also wondered sometimes why you’re like this. I don’t know— I don’t know you. I do remember you posting once about your sister’s birthday. Remember that? It was in a rapidly moving thread, and everyone ignored you.

Except me. I offered you my condolences about her. I don’t know if you ever even saw it, but often I think you did and it’s only made you resent and dislike me more— that I would be kind to you when you’ve gone out of your way to be unrelentingly shitty towards me.
If this comment embarrasses you or strikes you as inappropriate, my apologies. Report it and ask CJ to delete it and I will too. My intent hasn’t been to pick at you in this comment or make you feel bad— but I do think you might have some issues to work on, and I wish you luck with them.