hate on the web

[Zombie_Fish]

Meet the internet fucktard theory: Regular Person + Total Anomity + Audience = Total Fucktard.

People can get away with it, that's why they're rude.

This exactly.

Add to that the fact that the internet's a large place and you're very likely going to find someone who opposes your views and you have a pretty accurate equation. Since you're anonymous, that multiplies what you can actually do, you can just insult someone who opposes your view and call them a "Communist bastard" as much as you like.

So the final equation I believe is:

Anonymity(Regular Person+Someone Who Opposes Your View+Audience)=Total Fucktard

I have actually been called a communist bastard on these forums because of my views, which at the time weren't actually mentioned, and weren't related to Communism. -_-

 

[DeAvatar]

Lord of the Flies....
With not so much an island but a whole world of Piggies, Jacks, Rogers, and of course Ralph.

 

[BlindTom]

Get a tissue, toughen up, that anonymity works both ways.

Getting butthurt about an insult that clearly has no foundation exposes a lack of maturity.

Getting butthurt about a well founded criticism? Well we know the solution to inadequacy don't we kids?

 

[TheFacelessOne]

I wouldn't really have a worse one...but I have trained myself not to "break down" whenever someone has the word "You" right next to the word "suck."

 

[BlindTom]

Whoah!

I just read through all of the comments in this thread! I can see exactly what you mean by people letting anonymity run away with them, who'd have thought that somebody could become so detatched as to think reacting violently to somebody else exercising their free speech is somehow NOT abhorrent?

I suppose it's a good job this isn't real life, or I might feel the need to back away from such unbalanced individuals.

 

[Croaker42]

Meet the internet fucktard theory: Regular Person + Total Anomity + Audience = Total Fucktard.

People can get away with it, that's why they're rude.

/agree
I think its the development of E balls.

 

[Low Key]

Anonymous public forums are not for the faint of heart. I learned that when I first got the internet over a decade ago. It's one of the reasons why I try not to be any more of a dick than I am on the street.

More often than not, I'm nicer on the net than I am offline because I am allowed time to sit and think rationally before I post. On the street, I'll just snap and make people regret they are living.