Is This Site Real Or A Joke? (i'm Serious)

There are some strange threads and posts here. I am just wondering if anyone else feels like some people here are just "messing" with others. I am trying to get a handle on my problem but it seems like some people use this forum like the character from "Fight Club" used 12-step meetings. It dawns on me that this is a perfect environment to find people who are in a weakened state to f*&% with.
Not all, but some.
Jer, as you know, it is an open forum, where anyone can join, and it isn't actively moderated, they work as volunteers and do not have staff to run this place 24.7. As a result you have trolls, that may get by with a bit more until the Mods see it or are emailed by one of the members. No different than other message boards.

I belong to a few other boards and those with active moderators get rid of the trolls pretty quickly. People are intelligent enough to know a troll when they see them, or sense something amiss, you just need to look past those people.
The trolls that is.

I understand where you are coming from. 'In a perfect world'.

As they say' take what you need, leave the rest'.