Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 06:05:54 10/28/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 09:02:35, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On October 28, 2003 at 08:37:58, Uri Blass wrote: > >[snip] > >>>The #1 characteristic of internet forums is that because you can't see the >>>other person, because they are just a string of blue text, people are way >>>more aggressive. > >[snip] > >>It is dependent on the person. I think that in the interenet there is more >>time to think before posting so you can be less aggresive. > >That's true for single persons. But in a community which consists of a certain >number of persons or more, there's _always_ persons who don't. > >If the probability that a person behaves like you say is 90%, how high is the >probability that everyone in a group of 50 people behaves like you describe? >Very small... (0.90^50 = 0.005 => 0.5%) That's the point. > >Sargon Well it's also a matter of body language. Body language is more important than the actual words spoken in terms of meaning, otherwise we wouldn't have sarcasm. Which is why people are always putting :) or other emoticons or using /sarcasm or some such. Actually, I do what Uri suggests a lot. I'll have a posting all typed out and decide I don't want to post it. anthony
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