Not everyone can ignore things that anger them that easily. It just eats at them inside until they find a way to respond to it.
And whether or not both sides of that argument really were overreacting, you were being way too goddamn callous in pointing that out.
Yes. You are right.
However...
Another nice trick to ignore such [parasitic bomb], which I used as well when people picked on me on the net, was to just read a bit of a post, if it's directed at me and it started out in a mean fashion...I just stopped reading. It [tornado fang]ing helped a lot.
What Joseph, and many others like him need to understand, is that unlike in real life, here you can find various easy methods of ignoring a "hater".
If he felt the need to leave, okay. Fine. But on the other hand, there was obviously more people here who DIDN'T MIND HIM or even LIKED HIM than Ruri and me (even then, I didn't mind him that much either).
But he decided to leave. And that's fine.
But in my opinion, what he should have done is to just focus on regular conversations and if any "attacking" would happen, he should have tuned it out.
Or he could complain to the staff. Seriously.
So in conclusion...
1. Try to find a way to ignore a "hater" who is "attacking" you.
2. They aren't bullies on the school playground who can beat you up, they are just posting meaningless words over a large distance. Just try to tune them out, or [tornado fang], ignore their posts altogether.