People have always sucked, the internet just gives the anonymity to be complete jerks without recrimination or reprisals. All you can do is ye 'ol "sticks and stones" routine and ignore them. If you try to strike back you usually only encourage their meanness. I first noticed this phenomena back in 1993/94 when I used to frequent IRC. There was this one guy who called himself Mephistopheles (even though he had no apparent understanding of who the name represents) - he made it his mission to get kicked out or banned from every chat room he entered by being obnoxious. But he made the mistake one day of dropping in on me and making a fuss in my Dreamers chat room. Poor thing, he didn't know what hit him. I decided to smother him with kindness literally (hehehe, I am so wicked). So for three or four hours he tried to get us to ban him and we just kept being sweet to him and discussing his psychological issues that would lead him to this life of misery (there were about a dozen of us in the chatroom). He finally gave up and left in disgust. After that I (and my fellow dreamers) made it a point at least once a day to "find" him in the IRC-sphere and wish him a good day (and secretly IM the others in the chatrooms he was in on how to deal with him, hehhehe). Pretty soon half the online IRC-sphere was "playing nice" with the guy. I think we nearly gave him a nervous breakdown - in the nicest way possible of course. Ahhhh, the good old days, when it was easier to track the jerks and deal with them. I bet that poor guy still has a Kiera-complex. LMAO. I do wonder if he ever minded his ways, he disappeared after a while. :-D Kiera