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> There was also an assumption of politeness and civility. lol teenaged me on IRC did not get that memo.
by Teever 4y ago
> There was also an assumption of politeness and civility.
lol teenaged me on IRC did not get that memo.
- Clubber 4y agoEven back in the BBS days in the 80s, there was always that one guy who was the asshole and trolled people on forums. Once you talked to him one on one, he was actually pretty normal.
- Aeolun 4y agoHmm, I dunno. Even if people were rude I think it was by consensus, not because they felt like they could get away with anything.
- jrumbut 4y agoThey felt like they could get away with anything because they could! I think one difference was that you could hide a little friendly community fairly easy and because the meanness and abuse was seen as an expression of real world powerlessness rather than an enforcement of real world power structures.