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Dismissing opinions is on thing, dismissing opinions thinking that you are not interacting with humans is why some people are huge a-holes on the internet despi
by mrtksn 4y ago
Dismissing opinions is on thing, dismissing opinions thinking that you are not interacting with humans is why some people are huge a-holes on the internet despite being decent people IRL.
- bell-cot 4y agoMaybe I'm an old cynic...but I already (quietly) dismiss most plausibly-human opinions on the internet, because "advertising", "clickbait", "ignorant", "echo chamber", "troll", "spam", "obvious & boring", "not my religion", "immature". Etc. etc. etc. "Is it from an AI?" seems about as important to me as validating the SPF record behind some "I am assistant to Nigerian Minister of Oil, and need your help..." email message. Who would actually react differently to that message, on the basis of "SPF is valid"?
- mrtksn 4y agoYep, in old generations there was this thing about internet being a new frontier where you can nerd down and it wasn't a place for "normal" people and whatever happens online doesn't have IRL consequences. Some of them turned into unbearable a-holes, however newer generations have another kind of relationship with the internet where they are not assuming that everyone is a neckbeard and there are no women on the internet etc. Instead, they are much less anonymous, use real names and are not in the delusion that there are no real world consequences. It's the only way the normies to stick around, despite having orders of magnitude more people online the trolling is not as pervasive as it used to be.