I'm Your Firestarter

You know this individual. Every blog, every discussion forum and every online group has at least one of them. Self-righteous. Omnipotent. Infallible. Flippant. Argumentative. Opinionated. Snide. Drunk on their own genius.

To argue with them is an excercise in futility. To reason with them is impossible. To attempt to out-smart them is difficult because they don't play by the rules of logic.

The disruption, the loss of community and the frustration they cause is immeasurable. They do and say things they wouldn't face to face, exploiting the anonymity of the online experience. They are the archons incarnate and I deny them.

I don't argue, I don't respond. They are invisible.

Begone firestarters. You have no power here.