>on the internet people will scroll through pages of agreeable comments looking for something disagreeable. I thought that I was the only person who does this.

>on the internet people will scroll through pages of agreeable comments looking for something disagreeable. I thought that I was the only person who does this. Therefore, given a forum full of people, the chance that you will offend somebody is increased. It becomes less "say something offensive" and more "say something merely noteworthy". We get a “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down” situation. On the scale of the whole internet. The internet becomes a huge engine for imposing conformity.