I don't know why a group of complete assholes is allowed to mess with people in the name of some sort of sick fun or comedy. These same people do not frequent U2 threads, to they aren't here for the fandom, they are here to goof around. Their posts are for the most part a huge waste of server space. I realize some of them are well liked and 'cool' members of the community here (though I cannot understand why) but they shouldn't be allowed to spend their days and nights making other people feel like shit. And no. 'don't let it bother you' isn't going to cut it, they are the ones who are wrong, they should stop it or be made to stop it. The forum would be a better place without such attitudes.
When a thread of mine was trashed in LS, one member told me I should take serious stuff to ZC, so I did. I got responses from many of the same people who torment me in LS and I couldn't help but think they were not being serious but goofing around at my expense. It's hard to have to sit and figure it out, it just shouldn't happen. There are more than enough places to joke around here, keep it out of ZC.
Yes, I have been a target. but I'm not the only one. I see other things, too. There was one thread where a South American boy spent 3 posts telling his long and excited story of how he secured hard to get U2 tickets for the first show in his country in many years, and the first response to him was 'too much long winded broken English ranting, okay, you got your tickets.' I couldn't believe someone had said that, or that it was allowed to stand. And no, it's not a 'joke', it's MEAN. Too much is written off as humor, and that is the problem. When somebody always claims to be 'funny' they get by with it, but it's NOT funny. This needs to be sorted out and stopped. It's wrong.