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Or one could espouse an ideal on real world behavior closer to that of kindergarten, wherein one claims things such as 'be nice to one another', and the world c

• swombat 16y ago
  There's no use pretending this is anything other than the public world. Bits of HN comments regularly get quoted on blogs and news sites. I recall someone once upon a time getting blasted both on and off HN for a callous comment made on this site. Pretending that it's not public will only lead to sore disappointments when reality invariably proves that actually, yes, this is a public forum, and anything you say here may be held against you, and your persona here is public and liable to be criticised. To be honest, if you can't take a bit of criticism (or some slightly freaky fans), the internet seems like an odd place to have a persona.
  • Unseelie 16y ago
    You are right. But you're also condoning behavior which you're implicitly against(or at least I interpret as you implicitly against) because that's the way things are, and at least some people are effected by others tossing in and claiming things are good, or allowable, or not cool...and in that condition, accepting the world as cruel will let someone else feel ok being cruel. The internet is mean because the internet is mean. If it were more nice, it would be less mean, and there are interpersonal feedback loops which support that.