The worst thing that ever happened to you..

@ Xynomi this video displays my response to all that's happened between you and Xypho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SYdjRVCR0

Max, I could relate. I was bullied in high school (Until I started learning kenpo, in the latter half of high school). My mom was (is) an unstable alcoholic, who used to burn me with cigarettes when she was drunk, and a fundamentalist racist whom I could never introduce half my friends to. And I could quite honestly be happy with never seeing her again, so long as I knew she was okay, but sometimes I'm scared to find out. My "Emo phase" happened around the same time as yours, back when I was in middle school, and I was the definition of antisocial back then. Being an identical twin means never being treated as an individual, if everyone meets and knows you as the other twin. Heck, I remember being held at gun point when walking through some meth dealer's yard, and just laughing it off because I didn't really think my life had any weight. But but damn it, I don't mean to devalue your experiences or your problems, but I actually grew out of it. Right about the time when I was your age, too. Whatever you have to say to remind yourself you have power, say it. Whatever you can do to make your existence a more constructive one to the world around you? Do it. Learn your own value. Learn your own limits. Then expand them. And above all else, make friends who you may not actually identify with. That's how you break out of the cycles of self loathing and fear. And if you ever feel powerless, remind yourself this: One suspicious hair strand is all it takes to shut a restaurant down, or at least get a free meal out of it. (Not that I recommend making a habit out of doing that.) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Anyways, I have to say the worst thing that ever happened to me was when my grandmother died, which happened after the aforementioned middleschool-early college years of my life. Talk about life never being the same. My family still hasn't recovered from it. My grandmother really played a part in raising me, so it really was like loosing a mom for most people. And any sense of security I had in life was shattered after that. And yet, I often say, the worst thing that ever happened to me was in the long run, the best thing for me. I still miss her. But her loss was what spurred most of the positive change in my life, as I took her lessons to heart.

The worst thing to ever happen to me is being called a thing by an anonymous entity online and not being able to respond fast enough with full rage

Worst thing being betrayed and treated like dirt by every adult around you and being called a liar for very serious accusations. Feeling isolated and alone like that with no one to turn to nearly drove me nuts. Made me lose trust in human beings like in the end everyone's out for themselves. There's more to that but I'd rather not go into it. That's the worst for me. Probably a lot of other things that could be considered worst by regular standards but they were irrelevant to me.

How come he hasn't been IP banned yet? or is there more to it why he hasn't been

My sexyness was the worst thing to happen to me. Like all the imaginary fan girls want me ALL the time! XD Plus idk what happened here but Ima be just passing by.

Wish there was a quote function, but IP bans aren't a foolproof method of showing someone the door. While the traditional user may be narrowed down to a specific subset of their ISP, usually the major DNS hub nearest to their actual location, you do still risk banning other legitimate users within that vicinity. Most commercial ISPs also give us rotating dynamic IPs, changing to some degree every week or so unless specifically requested. This is why you can't just go solely by the IP, but instead look to the DNS. Of course, all this goes to hell if they're trollsy enough to invest in VPN services, which basically means that can select an IP from any region their particular service of choice chooses to set up in. While there may be occasional legitimate uses to VPNs, mainly to get around problem hops in the internet backbone, more often than not they seem to be used for less savory purposes like the aforementioned trolling or stuff like pirating. In the end, this shifts security more toward the registration process. Since it's pretty much just listing an email and a name that anyone could make up, keeping a problem user away is pretty much impossible. One method might be to not allow disposable email addresses like those from yahoo, gmail, and so on, instead forcing users to sign up with ones that come up with their ISP, but again, that's more inconveniencing normal users just to smite some bad apples. A more extreme example could involve wanting a scan of photo ID, home address, and telephone number to call for confirmation, but again, some might find that too personal and risky. Frankly, I'm of the mind internet accessibility needs some reform relative to social media and the like. Much like how US residents should have a Social Security Number, we should probably get an Internet Status Number. Sites that opt in to the program would then have access to a database where a registered ISN can be compared for various transgressions the user might've committed with their use. If it turns out someone with the number 1234567890 and their associate birth date, as an example, has multiple infractions cited by Facebook, Twitter, or places like Blizzard's official forums, they could be prohibited registration if they don't meet desired requirements. Violations would also be broken down into categories, like foul language, harassment/stalking, phishing/hacking, maliciously spreading misinformation, and so on that would all be weighed in a given site's registration process. Places out there would still be free to host without having to interact with this service, of course, but I think we'd see a fair bit of reigning in on internet douchebaggery if bad behaviors actually had tangible consequences beyond the inconvenience of making a new dummy email account.