> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:04 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2009/2/13 Al Tally <majorly.w...@googlemail.com>: >> >>> Often people don't know they're having a bad day, and may respond more >>> harshly than they would normally. Not their fault, it's human nature. >> >> There's also people's tendency to be liberal in what they send out and >> conservative in what they accept. I remember one person moving to ban >> sarcasm from Wikipedia project space. He was inspired to this when >> someone responded sarcastically to him comparing them to Hitler. > > on 2/12/09 7:52 PM, George Herbert at george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: > > I think that "bad day" and "liberal in emit conservative in accept" go > together fairly strongly. People who are reasonable (most people) only get > that way on bad days. > > Part of the problem is that there's a quite legitimate tendency for the > first thing that goes when you get grumpy or sick to be your introspective > self-checking... > > People in real life respond a bit better to "Hey, you seem to be extra > grumpy today, why don't you take the day off?" than they do online. There's > the whole depersonalizing / disassociating effect of not seeing people in > front of you when communicating electronically. > George, this is often why I wonder if a person in this medium would say the exact same words to the person if they were with them in-person, face to face.
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