mantra wrote on Oct 5
th, 2014 at 1:50pm:
Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 5
th, 2014 at 8:33am:
That sounds like a possible solution to the problem of people arriving to do little more than tag your posts with ad hominem one-liners, for other graffiti vandals to then arrive with the sole intention of choking off any serious attention to the subject being proposed.
As Cods has said so many times, we can be thankful that some of these people aren't our neighbours. In reality most people are friendly and polite, listen to what you have to say and give their point of view, but the internet is a different world. It can be very hostile.
As much as it would make our experience on a forum more enjoyable, we can't even hope that these people will become civil and rational. Perhaps they wouldn't know how to anyway. Computers have changed the way some people think. They can hide behind their keyboards and create various personas from their clever games or violent movies. It makes them feel powerful and important when they destroy a thread or heap a pile of insults on an unsuspecting member. They can't be smart and tough in reality, but think they're representing those qualities online. They haven't got a clue. We should really feel sorry for them and instead of letting them upset us - offer them compassion and understanding. That's easier said than done of course.
I visited "the tavern" forum and read something, or what my impression was, of people on a different forum "political animal"
also owned by freediver, supposedly imitating members from this forum and "trolling" as well as identity hacking and a bunch of other stuff.
I laughed. I couldn't comment because A.G the moderator there, closed the threads, within reason, because she seems to be having the same problems as what you guys are talking about.
The only place I can seem to manage to have a mature
discussion , ironically, is the Spirituality and Fringe forums, though the Fringe forum isn't very popular. That's probably a good thing though.
Yes, it's very sad that the "internet warriors" feel the need to virtually manifest their true natures in a place where they can remain anonymous, because they are also cowards. We should pity them, really. But there will come a time where the internet will be censored and won't allow anybody to say what they think -- because of this minority of cowards, even people who have good intentions and want to discuss rather than abuse will be treated as such. It's the same pattern -- the minority will ruin it for everybody else.
by the Members, merely presently hosted by freediver....something he volunteered to do a couple of years ago.
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