# Most depraved hive of lowlifes you've ever encountered on the Internet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592 "2010-02-03T22:08:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/1 "2010-02-03T22:08:05Z")
What is the most debased place you’ve ever run into on the Internet? Includes any place chock full of trolls, flamers, and other assorted lowlifes that you’ve encountered or hung out at. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/2 "2010-02-03T22:12:45Z")
Um… 4chan?? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/3 "2010-02-03T22:15:36Z")
The comments section on YouTube. "your the idiot look im not saying wut they did was wrong and i wont say it was rite ima say they didnt have to cuz im sure ther was a better way to end this other then him dying but at da same time 15 isnt dat young i was slingng drugs fucking hoes and getting fucked up at 15 … @nickleb33 but at da end of the day u still gon b a punk ass whiteboy who prolly runs n hide r get real pussyfied when so called NIGGERS come round u talk big for a bitch ass on a da net but i wud luv to meet ya ass n person u name da place hell u prolly wanna b black yadamn self so have a nice day faggot" The type of eloquence you see there. William Shakespeare would appove. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lurker\_Above](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Lurker\_Above](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lurker_Above)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/4 "2010-02-03T22:15:46Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Um… 4chan?? Darn, beaten to it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/5 "2010-02-03T22:16:59Z")
The comments sections of most local newspapers is pretty appalling. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/6 "2010-02-03T22:17:56Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Um… 4chan?? My first thought. > [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > The comments section on YouTube. My second. > [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > The comments sections of most local newspapers is pretty appalling. And my third. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/7 "2010-02-03T22:24:53Z")
The thing you have to remember - and it’s _really_ easy to forget this - is that these morons aren’t just some kind of creatures that only exist on internet forums. THEY ARE REAL PEOPLE. They are the people all around us. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/8 "2010-02-03T22:31:34Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > The thing you have to remember - and it’s _really_ easy to forget this - is that these morons aren’t just some kind of creatures that only exist on internet forums. THEY ARE REAL PEOPLE. They are the people all around us. :eek: “These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.” ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/9 "2010-02-03T22:36:04Z")
4chan it is, though my blood tends to get to boiling levels much quicker over at Free Republic. That is, unless the pedos are out at 4chan. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/10 "2010-02-03T23:07:15Z")
Anyplace I’ve heard about on Something Awful’s [Weekend Web](http://www.somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/), then actually visited. (I can’t remember actually visiting any, but I must have, if only out of morbid curiosity.) ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/11 "2010-02-03T23:11:00Z")
stormfront Not sure if it is a .com or whatever, but it is terrible. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/12 "2010-02-03T23:11:58Z")
Y’all have hit the big ones, but I also want to mention Farkers. Sure, there’s some intelligence there. But there’s also some of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. And I’d also give it to FIRST posters on websites where that gets you banned. Especially since they almost always have a posting history, indicating they did actually want to continue posting there. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/13 "2010-02-03T23:13:42Z")
Has anyone mentioned 4chan yet? Oh. Youtube comments? Oh. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/14 "2010-02-03T23:19:36Z")
Pretty much any open comment section anywhere. You can scarcely one anymore, even on the websites for reputable newspapers, magaiznes, etc. that isn’t infested with the ungrammatical trolls, racists and perverts. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-depraved-hive-of-lowlifes-youve-ever-encountered-on-the-internet/527592/15 "2010-02-03T23:28:47Z")
[moderating] I know this is a fun thread and all, but it’s really begging for a board war. This wasn’t pleasant when it happened with stormfront before, and we don’t want to kick one off with another board now. Thanks for understanding. [/moderating]