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Robert Sawyer
The Vendunari
End of Life
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Posted - 2015.10.25 07:31:46 -
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You're surfing the Internet like a pro - no wave can bring you down, until you post your opinion in a chat room and get greeted with a "shut the f*ck up" or "nobody cares". You greet a fellow player, but he yells profanities and brags about how he banged your mom. Little kids in the lobbies do the same. In the end, you feel sad, furious that you cannot punish these little fools for their insolence. So then, why are people on the Internet mean?
Actually, the answer to this question is pretty simple. First of all, you're on the Internet. It's a realm that, physically, does not exist. Anybody can tell you anything because there will be no repercussions. That means that people will, in general, be tougher behind a monitor. Because of this sense of invulnerability, people who have Machiavellian traits in real life but are too afraid to use them in the real world will take their jerkyness to cyber-space.
They just simply know that they can be buttholes and get away with it - it's a very unpleasant feeling to not be able to do anything about it.
But are mean Internet people mean in real life?
Once again, this depends. Some people like being mean because they're too weak / scared to do it in real life. Others are simply ignorant and love making salty days for others. This is bad, because Internet behavior does not work in reality - even a simple "shut the f*ck up" can touch too deep and set off the fuse in someone's inside. Some people will just swallow the insult and develop a great feeling of enmity, and others could, well, kick the guy's *ss for saying that.
Besides, cussing at everybody and being rude is, in general, immature and shows the lack of brain cells that the meanie has. If you want to combat a guy that's giving you trouble, don't fight him back - stupid people will always win because they're arguing more than you. Just mute the dude and think no more of it.
Hope this was accurate.
"And when, at last, the moment is yours, that agony will become your greatest triumph."
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Hengle Teron
Order In Disorder
Virtus Crusade Protectorate
58603
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Posted - 2015.10.25 12:26:49 -
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Pick one:
a) shut the f*ck up
b) nobody cares |
Robert Sawyer
The Vendunari
End of Life
76
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Posted - 2015.10.25 14:29:39 -
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I saw that one coming xD
"And when, at last, the moment is yours, that agony will become your greatest triumph."
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Jenshae Chiroptera
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Posted - 2015.10.25 17:58:24 -
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Consider the value of the opinion by looking at its source.
I am indifferent to strangers and will go grocery shopping looking like a homeless person. 
CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids
There are other ways to fix Null Sec stagnation and Fozzie SOV is the wrong approach.
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Mr Mieyli
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
72
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Posted - 2015.10.26 19:13:46 -
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The reason people on the internet are mean is really very simple.
No accountability.
A case for more AoE in EvE
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Tyra Falco
Hugbox Holdings
5003
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Posted - 2015.10.28 21:27:13 -
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Mr Mieyli wrote:The reason people on the internet are mean is really very simple.
Stupidity.
^FTFY^
In answer to the OP,
A lot of perceived 'meanness' on the internet is more akin to disagreement....
As in, you disagree with an opinion, then someone gets hurt feelings about it, cannot understand that not everyone holds the same opinion as themselves and automatically labels you whatever 'isum' or 'ist' is flavor of the month.....
For disagreeing....
On the internet 
I leave it up to you to decide which side of this hypothetical argument is mean, stupid and lacking in life skills.
Samoth Egnoled -'I like your Avatar alot!-áThe facial tattoo's kinda give you that scary clown look, which suits you quite well.'
Pepper Swift -'Fuckisn like not workign'
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4250
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Posted - 2015.10.28 22:41:08 -
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"When you're away from home, you have no shame." - Japanese saying What it means is, if nobody in your daily life is watching you, there are no rules, you just do whatever you want. There's no social pressure to keep you following the rules of nice behavior. If you look at tourists around the world, or the behavior of armies while in foreign countries, the saying kind of makes sense. Maybe the ultimate freedom is to be like a two-year-old little monster again, before you were trained about "good" and "bad" social behaviors.
But, some more mature/developed people have individual standards that they follow wherever they are. They're nice because they choose to be nice, not because society says they have to be nice. Mature/developed people might be outliers among the population, though.
On the other hand, we have to remember that EVE itself is kind of an outlier, when it comes to Meanness Quotients. Dog-eat-dog was designed into the game from day one, so the elevated meanness level was bound to follow, right?
You're trying to conquer me
You never will conquer me
-Delroy Wilson
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Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
270
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Posted - 2015.11.02 07:30:33 -
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Tyra Falco wrote:Mr Mieyli wrote:The reason people on the internet are mean is really very simple.
Stupidity.
Basically insecurity; maybe being alone in front of the screen while in contact with others creates a state of subconscious confusion which requires the further need of reassurance, manifested through primitive, vulgar reactions, that no harm can come to them through that screen.
"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
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Alpheias
Euphoria Released
Triumvirate.
8936
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Posted - 2015.11.02 14:06:36 -
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Why I am mean on the internet? Well, I together with my family live under a bridge and having five mouths to feed so I hand out my business card to people passing by.
Agent of Chaos, Sower of Discord.
Don't talk to me unless you are IQ verified and certified with three references from non-family members. Please have your certificate of authenticity on hand.
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Mizhir
Matari Exodus
74659
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Posted - 2015.11.02 14:09:33 -
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Alpheias wrote:I together with my family live under a bridge and having five mouths to feed
Ohh. I didn't know that your cat has kittens.
One Man Crew - Collective Solo PVP - Video is out!
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Alpheias
Euphoria Released
Triumvirate.
8936
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Posted - 2015.11.02 14:14:02 -
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Mizhir wrote:Alpheias wrote:I together with my family live under a bridge and having five mouths to feed Ohh. I didn't know that your cat has kittens.
TRYHARDER, shitlord!
Agent of Chaos, Sower of Discord.
Don't talk to me unless you are IQ verified and certified with three references from non-family members. Please have your certificate of authenticity on hand.
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Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
1045
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Posted - 2015.11.02 15:50:58 -
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Nothing wrong with the Internet, rather it is the Real Life with its possibility of ten to twenty or life...
Forum-unbanned since 2011.10.20.
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4253
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Posted - 2015.11.03 00:38:01 -
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Internet: Ah ha, I see the rules to this game/forum. Jab, feint, riposte! Crap, got owned. Grr. Logging, I'll think about it. WTH, I might just try some other game/forum.
RL: What are the rules to this game? The suckers keep changing all the time! Crap, teacher gave me an F/supervisor bitched me out/I got dissed in a party. And I still have to stay X more hours today. Can't log! In fact, I can't log tomorrow either, or for the rest of the indefinite foreseeable future. Got to rethink my strategy and try to fit in. 
You're trying to conquer me
You never will conquer me
-Delroy Wilson
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Lugia3
The Africans
Bad Intention
1500
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Posted - 2015.11.06 08:42:45 -
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Hengle Teron wrote:Pick one:
a) shut the f*ck up
b) nobody cares
I'll take 'c) All of the above'
"CCP Dolan is full of shit." - CCP Bettik
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