Sometimes, I regret ever creating my online presence because I let my guard down with other users online, who later betray my trust, expose my identity to the forum, and have nothing but bad intentions.

In another forum I belonged to, there was one poster who ruled the social chat room and if anyone disagreed with this person, they went behind the scenes and spread gossip about the other person, and even manipulated others into contacting the other person via PM, to incite drama.

At one point, this person made me their target, and suddenly my PM inbox was flooded with PMs from certain posters whom
I knew to be their lackeys (for lack of a better term), whose goal was to incite drama with me by harassing me via PM, posting snippets of private PM's I had with other posters (who were now part of this online Shakespearean tragedy). It got to the point, where the site's moderators finally got involved and did a major thread and user cleanup.

But the trolls came back with different usernames to incite drama on this poster's behalf again. I was even told in a PM that they were texting another user they had befriended offline, instructions on how to "take down people online" which is super scary. I had let my guard down with five people on that other site, and those five people betrayed my trust, exposed my true identity, and scared me offline by contacting me without my permission (I didn't give them my phone number or address yet they found it somehow online).

So, that's why I'm spooked again, now that something similar has happened here of all places. But, I don't think online trolls discriminate about what forums they visit to incite drama on. I wish I could delete myself completely from PC, and erase my online presence here now that this has happened to me. Oh well.