Over 50% of the new members we get basically do the exact same thing... shout into the crowd about how we're all stupid and doing Discordia wrong. Nevermind that they rarely offer up anything, or even comment on specifics. They make a single judgment and then sweep all and everything under it.
This is true of many returning users, too... people like Elvis Martini, whose entire participation in the forum basically consists of positioning himself above it. Or zarathustrabastardson who sincerely struggles, over multiple threads, to string together a single coherent sentence explaining to us that we're all "wack ass losers", and also that shitting on people is bad...? 
Over time, I've experienced every possible reaction to this. I've been critical of the forum. I've been welcoming and encouraging. I've joined in making cole slaw from cabbage. I've made fun of them. I've wagged my finger at people making fun of them. I've made fun of myself.
My new stance is to just have fun. ahhhh, pwnd again! To take it at face value and agree. All that matters to me is whether or not the person is fun to chat with. I really don't care if I agree with them or if they respect My Discordia. If they want to chat about Discordia or wackadoo spirituality, come get some. If they just want to shout into the crowd to feel like they're the real discordian and everybody else is fakes, I'm going to try to gloss past my kneejerk 
reaction and find my own way to enjoy the thread.
you guys have any thoughts on this phenomenon? I figured it might be a good thread topic.
Like i was ambivalent as to make my own topic after one of Roger's threads got flooded with trash banter cause it got me thinking... but i didnt make it cause i got stuck between making an argument and it being misconstrued by others, but whatever here it goes:
[A note to take into account, i for the most part love people that can be categorized as belonging to psychotic structure; worked for them, worked against their stigmatization, treated some more, dated a couple, etc. etc.]
I really think that Discordianism as a whole is like a magnet to not only people interested in philosophy or greek culture, deviants (and perverts), and people of the social sciences, but also psychotics.
The philosophical framework of Discordia is very open-ended and ambivalent that pretty much anyone can adopt it to mean whatever they want it to be. Theres no "objective" discourse as a nucleus other than maybe something like "think for yourself, schmuck", but everything else is this "serious non-sense" and the dynamic interplay of order and chaos.
So if anything defines psychosis (and autism), its the detachment of shared reality which includes communication. So theres this certain type of person that has the voices in their head tell them that they have a privileged position/link to Eris herself, and just as Zoroaster came down from the mountain to share his wisdom with the peasants, they do the same, guided by their "pineal gland".
And you might say "but Johnny, these are just lazy unimaginative trolls", and who knows? I dont have the energy to find and analyze each case that has manifested in these boards... so like, maybe? Its just that a segment of these kind of people more than angering me just make me sad to think whats going thru their mind to be so obnoxious.
