I think you just maybe need to grow up a little bit, its the internet. I read the comment he posted, and it really wasn't "troll-y" he had a point. you were the one who was being over dramatic about it. But the fact of the matter is this isn't a "donate to charity" site (though there is nothing wrong with that), its for deals.

@v3n0m91: Deals has a long history of promoting charities, and it's ever so nice to see someone prove the point of the OP. You know what your mother always said; if you can't say anything nice...

For a long, long time, Deals was a very friendly and civilized place. As the popularity has grown, most of the adults have moved on to other things. There are still plenty that are good people, but they get drowned in the ugliness. For every moron that feels the need to comment that something isn't a deal, another domo-kun dies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZDH45OAt8

@dontmakemehurtyou: Ignore the haters.

@dontmakemehurtyou: I did read, and in you description you wrote: "I posted a deal for a childrens charity and got a troll" yet in the comments you called him a "narcissistic tool" perhaps you should make up your mind. :)

@shrdlu: I fully agree, however I am terrible at finding deals :( I understand I went about it in the wrong way, but I still feel he was overreacting to this one post.

@dontmakemehurtyou: all other comments aside, it's difficult for me to take your comments and concerns as being sincere and well-intentioned when you reply with language that is every bit as snarky as that which you're complaining about.

@mikeq: Those tattles are just noise, as far as the people having to look at them are concerned. Please consider that sometimes the staff looking at Tattles is spread VERY thin, and that you are merely adding to the "oh, discard" pile, rather than the "wow, this needs to be acted on" group. In addition, if you do this often enough, when you do have something worthy to say, it'll get ignored, since staff will be expecting yet another "this isn't a deal" post from you, rather than something useful.

Remember that often, @faughtey is holding down the fort by her lonesome, especially on Sundays. We like her; let's not make her life more difficult. She's plenty busy already.

"@magic cave:" Agree with every word you said; absolutely.

i think the deal is for the right audience. think about it if you know people that never really donate and then they come across a targeted donation like this.
they might not identify with natural disasters if they live a sheltered life or don't tune to news channels. but then a charity like this is saying "if you're a gamer, share that love of gaming with sick kids"
people would think, sure i'm a gamer and i'd love for kids to have fun while recovering. i'd like to be playing games if it was me there.

i didn't vote for it before but did now for you. oh and for the kids of course :) i TRY to skip over the trolleys and tooleys, but always report spammers

All this is what makes it hard to even want to post deals like a charity. It's your business if you would rather vote up a Funny T-Shirt and not vote up this deal, but it's also mine to defend the deal in any way I see fit when I see negative comment. I do the same in real life. If someone calls you an As@hat in real life...do you not respond accordingly? I don't get paid on this deal...I see nothing from it....I just want others to have the chance to help. My view is that if you are skimming through the deal and all you see is the one comment about how crappy this charity is you might keep going, so yes I do think it's appropriate to respond as an adult and use adult words. It's not about me anyway, which is ironically the point of charity, its not about you......it's about others.

@dontmakemehurtyou: You have been quite hostile with all your responses. Disproportional to the situation. Justonebrat made a pretty idiotic statement, on every level... It's true. His comment is false, inappropriate and rude. However, that's not an excuse for you to go "hulk mad". It's a great opportunity for you to explain to people like justonebrat why these types of charities are important. That opportunity was missed, and replaced with attacks against a person who doesn't understand. Do you feel calling him a narcissistic tool benefited the charity at all?

Further, I wonder why you jump straight to the words, "narcissistic" and "tool". Discussion of ego libido is clearly indicated. Please, sit on the couch. Tell me about your mother.

A question like this is kind of trollish and typically posed by a tool.

@caffeine_dude: Hey, I just went and looked. I don't see any Charity from you, so it must have been on the Questions side, or in another guise than the familiar Cup of Joe that I'm used to. Perhaps it was even deleted (those things do happen, fair or not).

What was it? I'm curious, now. snicker Don't make me hurt you. Tell me now, or else.

@magic cave: Clearly, an ass is one who wishes to be a stallion, but can not afford a saddle such as this.

@caffeine_dude: Hey, I remember that question. I voted up nearly ALL the comments (except the idiot in the first one, and no kamikaziken, because I was feeling annoyed at him that day for one reason or another). While I'm not a fan of loaning out my own CPU cycles, I surely applaud those who do. Lots of RSA and DES factoring went on using other people's computers.

Mean people suck (except for me; I'm funny, so it's okay to be mean).

"@magic cave:" That is one nice saddle.

@dontmakemehurtyou:
"All this is what makes it hard to even want to post deals like a charity."
Once again, this charity is not a DEAL. If your post was "donate $X to this charity and someone else will match it dollar for dollar", now THAT would be a deal.

"It's your business if you would rather vote up a Funny T-Shirt and not vote up this deal..."
Exactly! IT'S OUR BUSINESS, and since there is no way to vote a deal DOWN, posting "not a deal" and tattling is the only option.

"It's not about me anyway, which is ironically the point of charity, its not about you......it's about others."
again, EXACTLY! It's NOT ABOUT YOU! but you have made it completely about... YOU!

Had you posted over here in the discussion side of deals.woot, I doubt your post would have been attacked. Hell, I may even have voted it up.

@lavikinga: Deals.woot = home away from home IN my home. : )

@kamikazeken: Post away, all you like. Don't tattle, though, since (as I'd pointed out, earlier) it just adds to the work load, without being useful. Everyone gets to comment, and as long as it stays civilized, I don't much care, not really. Tattling is for things that staff can (or will) do something about. Spam, x-rated items (the kind that are normally on sites that require a credit card, and proof that you're 18 or over), things that we know aren't allowed (even if they used to be), such as mystery deals, expired deals, duplicate deals, please add my picture/price/shipping requests...all those are useful to hit the Tattle button with.

Not a deal comments may annoy me, but I don't care all that much (unless your name is zippy). As I'd also pointed out, I didn't vote for this particular charity deal, but I voted up the first comment pointing out that it wasn't all that wonderful. If I'd realized that was what this question was about, I'd have been MUCH less kind in my first comment.

@dontmakemehurtyou: Interesting note regarding turning the other cheek: it's not telling you to grin and bear it. The idea is that someone has struck you with the back of his (or her) hand, which is understandably humiliating. By turning the other cheek, you refuse that humiliation and reclaim your dignity.

Yes, I know that sounds like garbage from the internet. They're better at phrasing it than I am.