Should we be civil toward people on the internet?

by **OGPhilly** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:25 pm

Yes, I too prefer to behave like a civilized human being, meaning I don't ever physically attack someone who isn't posing a physical threat to me.

by **broken robot** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:27 pm

Also because there's a major line I think some people have been misreading, when I said you might get punched for calling someone a douche bag I wasn't talking about my own response (trust me, I avoid huffing and puffing like the plague) but responses of other people you can't control. I then moderated the claim in a second post arguing that calling someone something offensive will escalate a situation, potentially to the point of physical hostility, whereas in the internet those situations can't arise. I don't see how this is a controversial claim, at all, but you're welcome to test my hypothesis by walking to any metro area and calling people douche bags.

by **JDHURF** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:37 pm

I have a dry and sarcastic sense of humor that appears to be totally lost online on people like Broken Robot. Perhaps it has to do with the inability to read tone into a post of text, for instance, idk. I literally talk the very same way to people irl and no one has ever punched me in the face for something I said. I think if BR and I talked irl he probably wouldn't get so butt-hurt, but who knows.

by **broken robot** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:40 pm

Yes well there's a lot missing here from real life interactions, but I'm not "butt hurt" (how does that happen btw?). It's more like I don't enjoy coming up with clever insults and batting them back and forth, I prefer concentrating my energy on the substance of an idea. Perhaps I'll do that in future conversations and just trim what I perceive to be rudeness (and it's fair, considering I don't know you and generally we assume these things about people for the sake of normal conversation procedure).

by **JDHURF** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:58 pm

by **broken robot** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:07 pm

Alright my question then would be if you don't see the substance of the idea why engage with it?

by **JDHURF** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:08 pm

by **OGPhilly** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:46 pm

Needing a chaser is manly?

by **The Comrade** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:49 pm

i don't think anything regarding how you drink or how much you drink has anything to do with ones manliness.

by **OGPhilly** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:50 pm

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