I mean, I'm assuming a few things. I'll channel my inner armchair psychology geek just for kicks.
The first thing that I assume is that they're a part of the Incel or involuntary celibate community and they just simply like pathological anonymous harassment.
I wanna say though that even though this is an example of online anonymity fulfilling the vacuum of online toxicity; overall online anonymity baked into social media is overall more positive than negative. I mean, forums like this are largely an extremely positive and beneficial community for people who use drugs which helps to foster supportive online relationships with other people who might be marginalized by prohibition and even by stigma associated with substance use disorder or being a person with an addiction, etc.
What I'd like to hone in on is how these forums are positive and that the bright side to look to is how many more people that these forums enrich and benefit and provide community for compared with how many people that troll these forums for the capability of acting out their tasteless and misogynistic compulsions. Remember that: this person probably has no community of their own and understand that they are likely lashing out at random people and particularly drug users because of social stigma that they perceive us to carry. This carries the assumption that the online drug community is an easy target to troll. What's more unfortunate isn't anyone who might be misinformed by their trolling but the grunt work that moderators have to do to remove infantile content from these forums to make these forums an inclusive and supportive community for psychedelic and drug users.
Another point I want to make and remind us of: Facebook created a policy of having to use your real name in order to use the website. This is highly misguided and it assumes that people act a little better when their actual identities are associated with their embarrassing and harassing comments and posts. This just isn't true and people tend to circumvent this. Not to mention that click workers are short in supply since it's an extremely grueling job to moderate content online and provide a safe online experience and community to others. Click workers are underpaid for the amount of trauma and eyesight damage they incur from staring at screens littered with the worst of human behavior that has to be quickly evaluated and then removed or moderated.
Platforms like Reddit offer the capability to create multiple accounts. It's baked into their platform and largely I believe that has more positives for people who want to create separate online persona's and while it's highly exploitable by trolls I believe it carries a lot of security and privacy. Hopefully for drug forums though the extent of creating separate accounts only extends to an account for DMT-Nexus, one for shroomery, one for mycotopia, etcetera. For many, having multiple or separate persona's is very beneficial such as for people who have family member's who're anti-LGBTQ and there's times where you don't want to be connected to your homophobic family members.
Similarly people who are LGBTQ facing oppression where it's illegal, people doing work with activism who are subjected to surveillance such as with reproductive rights and climate/anti-war activism, are all requiring platforms that support having multiple accounts. I'd still say that for the most part having a single account for places like this is what's necessary and is baked into the forum for the need to create legitimacy and prevent spamming.
There's a good podcast from EFF
here about what I'm getting at.
In conclusion I appreciate the work that our Moderators and Admin's do for us. It's taking time out of your schedule and life to moderate the content of these forum's and these forum's are a really inclusive community for the most part in a world of prohibition and stigma. So we owe a huge thanks and our gratitude. We are sorry to those of us that have to remove spam and we can only hope that by growing the better parts of the online community that it makes up for the stupidity of people like 69ron and many, many, many other's who fulfill the toxicity vacuum of cyberspace
