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>Imagine a term like "RTFM" being coined and used in popular tech formus today or "flamewar", which almost sounds a bit anachronistic now. I don't think I've b
by Barrin92 5y ago
>Imagine a term like "RTFM" being coined and used in popular tech formus today
or "flamewar", which almost sounds a bit anachronistic now. I don't think I've been in one in a long time actually. The early 2000s were a lot rougher and often toxic compared to what you have today.
Internet discourse is still hit and miss but it's more mature.
- mrr54 5y agoI think today it's a lot less explicitly aggressive, but it's actually more meanspirited. It might be controversial to say this, but online discourse is a lot less male and a lot more female than it was. Is this any great surprise?
- BeFlatXIII 5y ago> less explicitly aggressive, more mean spirited Strongly agree. It used to be the accepted norm that you’d ban relentlessly evade to get back at the admin who flamed you in their ban message. However, there was the tacit understanding that it was the internet and none of it was real: just log off and go outside once you got sick of it.