Car forums have revolutionized the scene by bringing enthusiasts closer together, but at what expense? So people can hate on each other's rides while flushing their elementary school grammar down the toilet.

I'm an avid member of several car forums. Where else can you get a good deal on a group buy, meet up with people that share the same interests, and buy or sell your stuff? Unfortunately, with the good also comes the bad. It's pretty common to see people trolling around forums looking to pick a fight and establish their superiority-not to mention doing it an a way that's obnoxiously illiterate: "Its a good thing your behind a computer screen, watch what would happen if you said any of this *** to my face, you would back the *** up b4 you get smacked the *** up."

I agree with Mr. Angry from above that it is pretty amazing to see how people act online. From behind a computer screen, all sense of interpersonal communication is seemingly lost, and what is left can be a barrage of slurs amid a compilation of shortcut keys with the optional sHiFt-BuTtOn tYpInG-sTylE yOz.

While on forums, I try to stick with this rule: when typing out a post, don't say anything you wouldn't normally say in person. Simple enough right? Yet time and again, I run into people who seem to believe that the forum somehow gives them a domain in which to either flame away or assume a false identity. Chances are if what you're writing puts to shame your grandmother or elementary school teacher (or both simultaneously), it is better not to broadcast it to the rest of the internet world.

Setting the bad seeds aside, I still love car forums. For the most part, they are amazing communities, thriving on their own rules, language, and sense of humor. So may Chuck Norris live on, along with the acronyms WTB/WTT, and even WTF. With trolls and flamers, I'll just have to continue LMFAO. TTYL.