Surviving the /qa/ problematictalogue - Day 3

So this is going to be a somewhat stream-of-consciousness posting. I feel like I’ve been living a parallel existence for the past three days, trying to be present with everything that’s going on, while still being able to function. That may sound impossible, and if it is, I understand. I hope you will forgive my indulging my habit of putting a bit of narrative between the lines and just let me share my experience.

Well, it started thursday. My brother, who is always funnier than I am, declared that he needed to find a way to vent his frustrations with a website that he was moderating. He calls them the “/qa/ lunatics”. This is a specific subset of /qa/ users who tend to exhibit irrational behaviors in discussions. As you probably guessed, this was not my brother’s first rodeo, but I was afraid of what he would do.

Fortunately for me, /qa/ members were not focused on lynching anyone or slandering an innocent site, as a quick glance at the archives will show. But they were not in an ideal mental state either. The community was a bit out of sorts. The top users of /qa/ were upset about some things that happened in the “old days,” and a few were just having a bad day and needed someone to take out their frustrations on, on the 1st of April of all days.