Best advise for forum posting I happened to read today

TerryG
TerryG La Crosse, WI Posts: 366
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From another forum site, happened to be a weight lifting site, I read this little nugget and liked it, in part because it is so very often true about the people who post here. It's why I like spending as much time as I do, reading the posts. Here's what it was.

"Do yourself a favor and be you online. Anonymity plus audience often equals asshole. Try not to be one. Make mom proud."
Do yourself a favor and be you online. Anonymity plus audience often equals asshole.
Try not to be one. Make mom proud.
Dan Johns

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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    I like that! I wish that was a like button of sorts...I post on another forum and they have a "Thank you" button for awesome posts....lol
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Sage thought, though I'd say to make yourself proud before anyone else.

    I never got the need to present any type of persona here (only online place in which I participate).

    Now I'm gonna have a listen to Audioslave's "Be Yourself"...Cornell does a sweet acoustic version :)
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    I learned that lesson the hard way!! Now, what you read about me here online is what you'll get in person! It really is the best way!
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,402
    TerryG said:

    From another forum site, happened to be a weight lifting site, I read this little nugget and liked it, in part because it is so very often true about the people who post here. It's why I like spending as much time as I do, reading the posts. Here's what it was.

    "Do yourself a favor and be you online. Anonymity plus audience often equals asshole. Try not to be one. Make mom proud."

    you just said it's often true of the people there and that's why you like reading posts. Is that what you meant?

    personally, I think any forum would be way boring without at least a bit of a-hole factor.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Do you think the asshole factor comes from naturally being an asshole offline too, or just manufactured (maybe brought out?) because of the medium?

    Will admit that some can be entertaining; others, more like an irritant.
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    image
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Who Princess said:

    image

    Lol
  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    :-/
    did you see me? i saw you.
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    hedonist said:



    I never got the need to present any type of persona here (only online place in which I participate).

    Me either, and me too. :)
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • WhatYouTaughtMe
    WhatYouTaughtMe Posts: 4,957
    hedonist said:

    Do you think the asshole factor comes from naturally being an asshole offline too, or just manufactured (maybe brought out?) because of the medium?

    Will admit that some can be entertaining; others, more like an irritant.

    I actually think I restrain myself a little bit. I'm probably more of an asshole in real life.
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    shortstack said:

    :-/

    Wasn't trying to hijack the thread. When people talk about the anonymity of being online, I always think of that cartoon.

    I can live with some disagreement, even the asshole factor. On another board I belong to, I've gotten to be on pretty decent terms with some of the people who used to piss me off. What bothers me is the amount of vitriol that crops up online. I don't usually read the comments after a news story or watching a youtube clip, because any intelligent or useful comment is usually lost in all the racism, sexism, victim-blaming, or political extremism of people who have found themselves an outlet. People can say things they think online but would never voice in public. I hope they get it out of their system online because they could be scary as hell in person.
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Who Princess said:

    shortstack said:

    :-/

    Wasn't trying to hijack the thread. When people talk about the anonymity of being online, I always think of that cartoon.

    I can live with some disagreement, even the asshole factor. On another board I belong to, I've gotten to be on pretty decent terms with some of the people who used to piss me off. What bothers me is the amount of vitriol that crops up online. I don't usually read the comments after a news story or watching a youtube clip, because any intelligent or useful comment is usually lost in all the racism, sexism, victim-blaming, or political extremism of people who have found themselves an outlet. People can say things they think online but would never voice in public. I hope they get it out of their system online because they could be scary as hell in person.
    Very very well said!
  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    Who Princess said:

    shortstack said:

    :-/

    Wasn't trying to hijack the thread. When people talk about the anonymity of being online, I always think of that cartoon.

    I can live with some disagreement, even the asshole factor. On another board I belong to, I've gotten to be on pretty decent terms with some of the people who used to piss me off. What bothers me is the amount of vitriol that crops up online. I don't usually read the comments after a news story or watching a youtube clip, because any intelligent or useful comment is usually lost in all the racism, sexism, victim-blaming, or political extremism of people who have found themselves an outlet. People can say things they think online but would never voice in public. I hope they get it out of their system online because they could be scary as hell in person.
    i didn't post the emoticon because of the cartoon. :)


    did you see me? i saw you.
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    shortstack said:

    i didn't post the emoticon because of the cartoon. :)

    OK, my bad. :)
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."

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