Queue on 7/9/2010 at 17:30
I know. What a monster, right?
kabatta on 7/9/2010 at 17:43
You sound like you're trying to cover your ass there, son. Sure, it is a internet social forum. But the rules are the rules and like in real life there are many social groups who have different laws. Sure, in one it is acceptable and funny to call one a brown nosed queer wanker who touches himself while looking at a 50 year old playing Halo naked in his basement, but in another part it might be considered offensive. Sure, you could unzip virtually for a virtual blowjob or sent edited pics with men having hairy moobs, but in some circles it is considered impolite. Sure, you can say that you're going to shove a clown down one's fanny, but you must ask youself: would he fancy that?
Let us all meditate on such things before acting any further down the isle. *cough**cough*4*cough*chan*cough**cough*
Stitch on 7/9/2010 at 17:45
Quote Posted by Queue
It's almost like people
look for something to be hurt about, or to find reasons to lash out, instead of just having a chuckle.
The flip side, of course, is nobody's actions exist in a perfect void, and we all need to take responsibility for the part we play.
Dropping joke bombs is all well and good, but don't play the victim if you misjudge your audience and things backfire.
Muzman on 7/9/2010 at 20:29
Annoyingly, I saw that fateful thread title sometime last night or whenever and said "Smells like one of those 'I'm reaching out to you one last time', threads. I bet we screw it up".
For the record, I'm not psychic. Had I seen what was actually written there in the first place, I might come to a different conclusion. As it stands, it's regretable but I don't really know what's supposed to happen. In the immortal words of Admiral Ackbar, "It's a trap!".
demagogue on 7/9/2010 at 20:53
Quote Posted by Stitch
The flip side, of course, is nobody's actions exist in a perfect void, and we all need to take responsibility for the part we play.
Dropping joke bombs is all well and good, but don't play the victim if you misjudge your audience and things backfire.
The thing is, anybody that's spent more than a year on Internet has to figure out that anything can and does get said sooner or later, personal or not (if that distinction even means anything anymore), and nothing you read can phase you anymore. (The 4chan version of that just substitutes the word "read" with "masturbate to".)
So that divides the entire world into the Internet literate and illiterate, and "misjudging your audience" is another way of saying "not realizing they don't get Internet yet." All our personal information is owned by Google anyway, so it was only a matter of time before our entire being was made available to simple google-fu and all our fears and aspirations all disappeared into the undifferentiated swarm of data that is cyberspace.
Not that I'm happy about that. I'm all for taking responsibility for what one says. It's just an idea that's starting to go the way of paper money, checks, broadcast television, newspapers, books, landline phones, CDs & DVDs, and garages with "things" in them.
CCCToad on 7/9/2010 at 21:25
Quote Posted by Queue
Like I said, I missed the whole thing.
Though I used TBE's thread as an example, because it was recent, I'm wondering more in general why people seem prone to a meltdown over what happens in a thread (or anywhere else on the internet for that matter) when it honestly, in my mind, doesn't matter.
Simple. The people who feel the need to viciously tear into everyone else and have public thread meltdowns lack self validation.
Stitch on 7/9/2010 at 21:27
Quote Posted by demagogue
Not that I'm happy about that. I'm all for taking responsibility for what one says. It's just an idea that's starting to go the way of paper money, checks, broadcast television, newspapers, books, landline phones, CDs & DVDs, and garages with "things" in them.
You make a good point, as I certainly was a remarkably more well behaved contributing member of this community before google indexed every last scrap of my existence.
Kolya on 7/9/2010 at 22:01
Quote Posted by demagogue
So that divides the entire world into the Internet literate and illiterate, and "misjudging your audience" is another way of saying "not realizing they don't get Internet yet."
That is the view of someone who hangs around a select group of forums that are not and do not represent "the Internet" or the majority of its users by any stretch of meaning.
The net is now a ubiquitous aspect of everyone's life. An ever increasing group of services aims to connect the so called "real life" with the so called "internet life" breaking down the distinctions. Think Facebook, Twitter, everything that's going on in your mobile, game producers who enact meta games for their users, Google Streetview, RFID chips, public surveillance and hundreds of others.
Whether we like it or not, the distinction between RL and the net is being thinned out as the net infiltrates every aspect of everyone's life, including even the people who didn't ask for it or aren't ready for it. And they all translate their ideas and social rules into the net. Not 1:1 and not instantly as they often lack technical knowledge and tools. But they have money and that buys them both.
You may end up realizing that you're the one who doesn't get the internet any more if you stick your head out just a little.
