Originally posted by Ponderable"Q. Why isn't the tone of this forum as cheerful as it was once upon a time?"
If you could us supply withe details on the "when" we could maybe answer. When I came to the site there have been cheerful threads and not so friendly ones. Remebre the discussions on cheats?
When did the tone morph into something other than what it was since I joined in July 2007?
About five years later. Yes, those angry threads and posts spilled over to several forums.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyWe have to accept change. Even if we don't like it, and even if we ourselves are unable to change , we still have to accept the fact that everything else does . Fact of life.
Sorry, lolof. Few moments ago, while shaving, realized I hadn't replied to your comment as intended.
Yes, things and people change gradually; some positively and a few negatively. Some not at all.
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Originally posted by JS357"The online disinhibition effect is a loosening (or complete abandonment) of social restrictions and inhibitions that would otherwise be present in normal face-to-face interaction during interactions with others on the Internet. This effect is caused by many factors such as: dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection, dissociative imagination, and minimization of authority.[1]
The online disinhibitionism effect is a major obstacle, if you mean online conversation.
Contents
1. General concept
1.1 You don't know me
1.2 You can't see me
1.3 See you later
1.4 It's all in my head
1.5 It's just a game
1.6 Your rules don't apply here
2 Possible consequences
3 Popular culture
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
General concept: Because of this loss of inhibition, some users may exhibit benign tendencies such as: becoming more affectionate, more willing to open up to others, less guarded about emotions, all in an attempt to achieve emotional catharsis. According to psychologist John Suler,[2] this particular occurrence is called benign disinhibition.
With respect to bad behavior, users on the Internet can frequently do or say as they wish without fear of any kind of meaningful reprisal. In most Internet forums, the worst kind of punishment one can receive for bad behavior is usually being banned from a particular site. In practice, however, this serves little use; the person involved can usually circumvent the ban by simply registering another username and continuing the same behavior as before. Suler calls this toxic disinhibition.[3]
CB radio during the 1970s saw similar bad behavior: Most of what you hear on CB radio is either tedious (truck drivers warning one another about speed traps) or banal (schoolgirls exchanging notes on homework), but at its occasional—and illegal—worst it sinks a pipeline to the depths of the American unconscious. Your ears are assaulted by the sound of racism at its most rampant, and by masturbation fantasies that are the aural equivalent of rape. The sleep of reason, to quote Goya’s phrase, brings forth monsters, and the anonymity of CB encourages the monsters to emerge.[4] Suler names six primary factors behind why people sometimes act radically different on the internet than when they do in normal face-to-face situations....." (italics and bold mine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
Question: Originally posted by JS357 "The online disinhibitionism effect is a major obstacle, if you mean online conversation." Yes, JS. I mean online conversation. Benign or Toxic Disinhibitionism as this forum's obstacle?
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyDon't you just hate having to clean up after other peoples solipsistic introjections? This is why I live alone now. It's not because I'm antisocial, I just got tired of people leaving their dirty socks on the floor and introjecting their solip onto the furniture.
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Reference: TV Game Show? lol