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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

elle is not a nickname. here is where l first studied trolls and the manufacturing/ proliferation of non-murderous sociopaths. the most shocking observation was how bystanders did not react toward uncontrolled sociopathic behavior. when l first joined, l wrote:

visits to metafilter is pure masturbation, with chaffing. especially chaffing. i think it's the pain-seeking nature of the abused.