The first step... < clstaff° > 2013-04-17 11:46





1) ... is admitting you're powerless over the forum.

2) Forum moderators can restore the forum to sanity.

3) You can be a productive member of the forums, and you trust the moderators to take care of the forums.

4) Make a searching and fearless inventory of the number of handles you've lost.

5) Admit to other forumgoers and yourself the exact nature of your trolling.

6) Be ready to have moderators remove your infringing forum posts.

7) Humbly ask moderators to delete your rants.

8) Make a list of all the forumgoers you've offended, and ask their forgiveness.

9) Ask their forgiveness, except when it would harm them to do so.

10) Continue to monitor your posts, and ask them to be flagged when you're wrong.

11) Seek through meditation what the forum moderators would do, if they were in your position.

12) Having had a spiritual awakening, carry this philosophy to other trolls and overposters, and practice these principles in all your dealings.



A Satirical 12-Step Program for Forum Trolls