What is with this attitude that because fubar is a virtual community, that courtesy, and manners are dropped at the door. I act the same way online as I do in r/l...in fact I tend to be a little more polite, and considerate online, because it's harder to know if you have hurt someones feelings online.
Just because it's the net, doesn't mean that people are any less likely to be hurt, or upset by cruelty, rudeness, and the like. It hurts just the same as those same things do in r/l.
Some people seem to lose all civility once they are sitting at their computer. It's like the keyboard disolves all the restraints they have in r/l on what comes out of their mouths. I suppose a certain amount of it is due to their anonimity here, and feeling that because they face no, or no real perucussions, and don't have to see the result of their words in person, they are now free to turn into some kind of savage spoiled children.
Their attitude of if you don't like it you can always leave, really chaps my ass the most though. Why should those of us who want to enjoy a mostly great community be held at the mery of, or driven away from yet another place by those who revel in destroying the good things we build, find, and want to be part of.
I am not some whiney, old fart who is new to the world. I am an old school geek, who has been online since before the net was the net. I have seen too many great things online destroy by the malicious, the spammers, trolls, and those who just seem to be driven to destroy anything good. I watched usenet go from soething amazing, to something horrible... I watched the birth of IRC, and then left in disgust when it became a cruel parody of itself...Likewise all too many online communities.
Maybe if enough people feel the same way, we can take some of it back. For those who think I am just pointlessly whining, DONT READ MY STUFF AND/OR QUIT BITCHING ABOUT MY ATTITUDE.
