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Qinella
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| One thing the internet proves, as if we did not know already, is that there are a lot miserable people in this world. I just can't see a guy happy with himself dishing out obnoxious insults to strangers online. Nope, it's the miserable characters who do this. Judging by the immense amount of rudeness, we can guess just how many people are really unhappy. |
Can't really agree with you here. To speak for myself, a lot of what comes off as rudeness is just sarcasm that can't be conveyed properly through writing. Some things that are said online might make someone angry, but if said in person, it would not.
You can also think about how certain people get their jollies by provoking others. I can imagine some teenager inciting others online, just for a laugh. Because.. that was me back in the BBS days. Whoops. |
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Privateer
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| Yeah I don't get the whole phenomenon.. must be a lack of confidence or something. Anyone who's met me knows I'm just as much a sarcastic ass in person as online. Same lame jokes, same subtle insults, all that. I suppose people who are Internet crusaders lack confidence, or fear real life ramifications of their desired behavior. |
Ah, many's the time I've felt like saying 'Try going down your local pub and saying that'.
But, as has been pointed out, much depends on the tone. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:56 am Post subject: |
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| Cerebroden wrote: |
| jajdude wrote: |
| I just can't see a guy happy with himself dishing out obnoxious insults to strangers online. |
How is this any different than calling a person out for having a low self esteem by belittling people in person?
IMO, if you're a fawkin idiot than you're a fawkin idiot and I'll either tell you that to your face or just try and imagine that you don't exist. |
I'm sorry, I cannot understand your question. I read it several times, thought about it, just don't grasp its meaning, at least not in relation to what I wrote. Maybe I should have said "I cannot see a guy who is happy with himself and who regularly insults people." I figure happy people tend not to be rude.
Anyway, I'm going up to Mike Tyson later and tell him he's an idiot. 
Qinella: I hear what you are saying about writing being a bit harder to grasp sometimes. I'm talking about obvious rudeness full of stuff like, you %#%^$ moron!
(strangely this post is about as rude as I get) |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| Some things that are said online might make someone angry, but if said in person, it would not. |
I agree, yah ladyboy... |
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trinity24651
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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I just can't see a guy happy with himself dishing out obnoxious insults to strangers online. Nope, it's the miserable characters who do this. Judging by the immense amount of rudeness, we can guess just how many people are really unhappy.
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I agree, JAJ |
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ernie
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| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:33 am Post subject: |
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i'm rude online and i'm rude offline, but i use common sense (which is less common than one is led to believe)...
i think the difference is that it's ok to be blatantly rude online because people can simply close their eyes, while screaming obscenties at the bar is a bad idea because people can't close their ears! |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:33 am Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
| Qinella: I hear what you are saying about writing being a bit harder to grasp sometimes. I'm talking about obvious rudeness full of stuff like, you %#%^$ moron! |
Ah yeah I know what you mean. I've gotten used to the relative calmness of Dave's and forgotten about the riffraff wafting about the Internet at large. Some of the comments I see on YouTube, for example, are things that no decent person could possibly say to another's face. Like a kid playing piano, and the response is something along the lines of, "This is horrible. Just a fat kid that can't play." Some really brutal stuff that we've all seen.
I think the completely anonymous comments, as in those made outside of message boards where people know each other (even if only digitally) tend to be the craziest, and most interesting from a sociological perspective. You can see them on sites that allow comments without registration, such as The Yangpa. People type some very hateful things for almost no apparent reason at all.
We can kind of look at the creation of viruses as a silent form of rudeness. I have a feeling a lot of it is due to pent up rage. A person cannot vent in real life for whatever reason, so they explode on the Internet, where those restraints do not exist. |
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jajdude
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| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:00 am Post subject: |
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This is one reason I like this site over the others where gratuitous profanity reigns. It's just ridiculous to me anyway, to think an even somewhat educated person needs to sling out trash. Sometimes the F word or whatever is called for, but just to go balls deep in insult-land towards strangers is crazy.
True too, as strange as it sounds, some of us have become pals, well-intentioned and decent towards one another without ever having met in person. There are a good few I respect that I have never met. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| Is this the beginning of the ESL Cafe Superbowl... Of Love? |
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jajdude
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:08 am Post subject: |
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Everyone is just so clever, or so they think, and everyone agrees "the masses are asses," and yet we all belong to the masses. I think the biggest idiots are the rudest. It requires absolutely no intelligence, decency or kindness whatsoever to insult people. Maybe that's why insults fly around like a flock of bats all over the internet.
(Yes, I'm touchy about this, perhaps I need a thicker skin and just ignore the nonsense.) |
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