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Right on. I've seen the posts/posters in many local fora in the UK have two defining characteristics. They are judgemental, and they are nosy in equal measure
by gjvc 5y ago
Right on. I've seen the posts/posters in many local fora in the UK have two defining characteristics. They are judgemental, and they are nosy in equal measure. [1]
I put the recent increase in this down to people's familiarity with the technology, having grown up with it -- those people only 10/15 years older have seen life before and after the revolution, and behave differently. Specifically, when local fora started to make an appearance, they were a bit more diffident in their postings.
[1] (I don't want to start splitting hairs on which might be greater. :-))
- gjvc 5y agoI forgot about the incessant hand-wringing and virtue signalling posts (typically made after someone reports a crime such as a street robbery), and these are also made from behind anonymous usernames. (any social capital created anonymously like this is useless in real life, so the motivation must be for some other reason such as entertainment or personal satisfaction) Note, this is not me passing judgement on people -- quite the opposite -- the whole point is that they can't and wouldn't be like this in real life, but the medium of the forum allows for it, which makes this cocktail of usage characteristics on these fora a recipe for quite strange reading, over time.