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Members of these threads have developed a thick skin against "raiders" (outside users who enter the thread solely to mock them). By ignoring the insults and continuing their conversations uninterrupted, they starve trolls of the attention they seek.

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His apartment didn’t change. But the rules did. He stood up—and his legs buckled. Not from weakness. From wrongness . His center of gravity shifted. His hands shrank. Not physically, but perceptually . The floor looked farther away. The door handle looked like a ship’s wheel.