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On IRC, if you stay in a channel long enough, you'll find that (depending on the channel) communities there do have their own slew of personalities and politics
by emsal 9y ago
On IRC, if you stay in a channel long enough, you'll find that (depending on the channel) communities there do have their own slew of personalities and politics.
People may eventually reveal information about themselves (gender, age, ethnicity, etc.), and if the information happens to be real, whatever harassment or bigotry that's made in response to that can do just as much damage as if it were done over another medium.
- hprotagonist 9y agoThis is all true, but the degree to which I get to control how much other long-time channel denizens know about me is much more under my control. I can even mask my IP pretty easily. A real-name, photo-required, rich-media equivalent (i.e, twitter) tips the balance of mandatory disclosure away from my favor.
- praisewhitey 9y agoTwitter doesn't require a real name or photo (I use neither) and has as much rich media as the IRC channels I sit in.
- hprotagonist 9y agoi'm not a twitter user, but i have been led to believe that eggs are generally not trusted.
- jpindar 9y agoWhen they say eggs they mean accounts that literally do not have any avatar image, and are thus probably operated by newbies or bots. A quick check of my feed shows that at least half of the accounts I follow don't have an image of a person or a name that could be a real name. Of those that do, some are clearly not the picture or real name of the user of the account.
- retailbuyout 9y agoTwitter has many, many other issues, including an absolutely terrible interface for meaningful discussion. Good for swapping gifs; bad for talking about anything with complexity.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoIf you've been there that long your opinion of the other people there will have been formed by their contributions long before you can take a good guess at describing the person behind the keyboard.