Journal improfane's Journal: Civil on the internet 5
I think it's important to give people benefit of the doubt online.
However I am not sure if I broke my civility. On Slashdot it seems that it is common for people to politely be rude to people.
Take this thread for example. Am I the civil one? Or did I lose my cool with this post?
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Yes. You mistook certainty for rudeness. If someone is convinced they're right about something and you think it doesn't hold, the civil thing to do is to explain how it's not correct, and/or agree to disagree. Politeness is to make allowances for personality types that differ from yours.
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You are right. I regret that post.
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There's another situation, which I'm not sure applies to this particular case. Many people confused intelligence with arrogance. As the population tends to prefer to live in ignorance, living by simplified spoon fed beliefs, anyone who shows more insight is treated like they're ... well ... assholes.
Of course, when it's to the advantage of the ignorant, the insightful will be taken advantage of for their "superior" skills. I can't count how many times I've been asked to fi
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We're too trained to look for offense. Feeling offended has been made a focus in modern culture and has been elevated by society's mainstream information disseminators to righteous victim status. (I'd be more specific, but most would just take (more) offense.)
In general, we simply think about things in the terms that are proscribed for us to think in, except for the minority who notice what's going on and actively try to resist the influence and try to discover and uncover who and what they truly would be l
Civility on the internet (Score:1)
at present a previously respected commentator down here in Aus is dragging himself deeper and deeper into troll land
He (Bob Ellis) started it here http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2780992.html [abc.net.au] "The Strauss-Kahn moment: has feminism gone too far?"
And he has rightly been slammed by many. However to add to the stupidity he has been replying to comments with nonsense:
Bob Ellis in the comments is the actual original troller - as confirmed elsewhere.
My point - "I think it's important to give people benefit of th