Trolls, arseholes and The drone police...

There's a typical way most people conduct themselves in front of real people... Majority of the time you are suppose to be kind and courteous to others... Or so what society has implied for most people... But takeaway the face to face social interaction and replace with anonymous identities or a faceless wall to write you inner most thoughts and opinions and you got a system that's open to abuse...

When you start to post your fair share of proud videos thinking you are the bees knees or thinking if I share this, will I get any compliments?... Fishing for compliments is what most of social media is relays on... As each post of the crappy art work we do is a way to say look at me and this is what Ive done...
Our friends who are like minded tend to put a positive spin on most things and we feel good for the afternoon... But in life, people gather up attention or followers that seem to grown according to how helpful or interesting your posts are... You eventually run into problems with your drone or flying technique and you share it with the world...

You eventually get advise or blow back on the things you've done... Take the typical screen record of your drone...  A typical video open to abuse is a droner who likes to test the range of their drones...They show case their newly fitted antenna or test out the stock aerial to their advertised range...
By then you will start to attract the Trolls or the drone equivalent called the drone police...Self appointed ambassadors of the civil Air Authority or the Federal Air Authority...They will squeal air laws and guide lines of safe drone conduct... These 'Guardians of the galaxy', type their concerns of a higher power...Sometimes you might need a nudge in the right direction and people will give you advise...

But if you start a line of communication with a insult or a laundry list of drone laws like some space cadet trying to make you wash out in basic training.... Its likely you'll get a verbal punch in the face...
Its the same with any other video when someone is showing off their home town or the city they live in... Or the landscape they happen to capture, with a few close flights to people or buildings that you down own... Personally I'm done with giving opinions of other peoples videos of flying in built up areas... The hassle is the back and forth insult exchange with single minded people who simply dont care where they fly...
Other trolls who like to correct grammar or pass off a lame insults as a joke, seem to be in a habit of being too familiar with strangers on the internet... But gone are the days of introductions and healthy discussions... We sit in the wake of a social media revolution where we follow the trends and re-post what we like and more importantly express ourselves, without a filter...
People often try to strike up a conversation by being too familiar or open up with a joke with no context to the post that causes the attention... Lame jokes and insults usually are by people who have little to no content themselves as if they hide their achievements or lack off... Short attention span and no sense of community, are the tell tale signs of a typical troll'er...

I tend to ask peoples qualifications in their drone profession... A person with little to no video or piloted skills, lecturing or talking their opinions of your own videos... Are likely to talk short conversations if they are losing a argument... After all bullshit can only go sofar...

I had a argument with a fellow who was passing around misinformation, he was selling his mavic pro joystick covers that stop the movement of his joysticks, when someone complained that leaving them deformed in a bag would lead to the joysticks needing a calibration...
I had mention you can take the mavic controller sticks off for temporary storage while his argument was that they cant come off... Despite the sticks are made of metal and the joystick gimbal is plastic... and is not glued on... Long story short I reached a point where logic and reason couldn't budge his views... And his agenda was that e wanted to keep selling his joystick covers on the insecurities of people finding faulty joysticks when stuffed in a bag a few days...

When really the magnetic field ( that caused the calibration fault), will eventually fade and will return the controller back to normal if you stop deforming the joystick...
I hate to admit it but everyone has a hidden agenda with what they do, whether its to sell their 3d printed joystick covers or to freely give tips so you can gain subscribers...
The real karma is with the majority of people that follows you... Although I dont have many subscribers or followers... I still like to share advance tips to fellow pilots all the same... Most people will also fall for a glossy video on teaching cinematic tips...
And while I fine some helpful videos I see these video are generalized tips that dont fully explain the full reasons of why shutter values are the the way they are in relation to the frames per second value... I did have a crack at a few drone tutorials and while I am limited in my presentation skills... I did get a lot of backlash on how crappy my videos are....
Video trolls on you tube seem to be the worst of it, in my experience... as there is no reasoning, but a like or dislike rating system... Which seems to power the popularity of most videos on the internet...
I have notice this continued rating regardless of any reasoning crosses over to popular entertainment, besides you-tube videos... The armchair critic makes lazy opinions on anything from a person pouring their heart out on a song or acting performance to films and personnel video journals...

Life has gotten much worst for the occasional video blogger as you-tube has taken away the funding of most causal bloggers... Leaving a creativity void of which most videos are now expected to perform well and appealing to the majority by childish humor and very Little research content... Time will tell if this type of social rating and low motives will have on the future of social media posts... I can only explain why I sometimes wonder why I bother to post videos and live streams when all I get is occasional hassles and dislikes saying my videos are boring.... And a explainable money drain from doing a hobby that for now, like doing because I dont earn from this or gain anything other then sharing with what I know to other pilots... Probably at worst, I have bragging rights to some of the videos I do in my particular fashion... But generally people like to complain on the production values of my tutorial videos... Either way life's to short to get mad or emotional with trolls in general... A simple block and a mind wipe is my technique of choice... Happy posting everyone...