Internet Comments

[Cortopassi]

I'm sure a lot of you read Zero Hedge, Fox News and other sites where comments are allowed.

Here's a sampling of the first few comments on a ZH article where Chris Cuomo was verified to have the virus.

I ask you all, if you knew the identities of these people and were in a position to hire them -- would you? I would not. Let them go out with your sons or daughters? I would not.

This internet anonymity allows too many people to be vicious, cruel, and just terrible human beings.

Am I taking these things too seriously? I would never write that kind of garbage.

[Kriegsspiel]

I'm sure a lot of you read Zero Hedge, Fox News and other sites where comments are allowed.

Here's a sampling of the first few comments on a ZH article where Chris Cuomo was verified to have the virus.

I ask you all, if you knew the identities of these people and were in a position to hire them -- would you? I would not. Let them go out with your sons or daughters? I would not.

This internet anonymity allows too many people to be vicious, cruel, and just terrible human beings.

The last comment is almost funny. I would have gone with something like "I still don't think the virus has done anything to deserve being inside Chris Cuomo" or something like that.

Am I taking these things too seriously? I would never write that kind of garbage.

Yes.

[Kriegsspiel]

If you limit the pool of prospective potential suitors for your daughters to non-idiots, they won't date much.

[shekels]

I'm sure a lot of you read Zero Hedge, Fox News and other sites where comments are allowed.

Here's a sampling of the first few comments on a ZH article where Chris Cuomo was verified to have the virus.

I ask you all, if you knew the identities of these people and were in a position to hire them -- would you? I would not. Let them go out with your sons or daughters? I would not.

This internet anonymity allows too many people to be vicious, cruel, and just terrible human beings.

Am I taking these things too seriously? I would never write that kind of garbage.

I'm sure a lot of you read Zero Hedge, Fox News and other sites where comments are allowed.

Not really

I ask you all, if you knew the identities of these people and were in a position to hire them -- would you? I would not. Let them go out with your sons or daughters? I would not.

Try to stop who your kids date. Let me know how that goes.

This internet anonymity allows too many people to be vicious, cruel, and just terrible human beings.

Yes it sure does. People like to Pile On.

Am I taking these things too seriously?
Yes you are.
Have you ever played Dodge ball in school?

[dualstow]

This internet anonymity allows too many people to be vicious, cruel, and just terrible human beings.

Am I taking these things too seriously? I would never write that kind of garbage.

Promise me you'll never visit 4chan because what you're looking at is the shallow end.
It's a new world out there, where everyone can give their unsolicited opinion without spraypainting it under a bridge at 3 A.M.

The comments that look like they're designed to troll don't bother me as much as some of the sincere, seemingly innocuous ones.
I try (and utterly fail) not to look at the comments and social media.

(you beat my signature to the punch)

[Tortoise]

YouTube seems to have the rock-bottom of Internet comment idiocy and depravity. And often hilarious for that very reason.

Has anybody found better?

[Tyler]

I'm sure a lot of you read Zero Hedge, Fox News and other sites where comments are allowed.

If you think these types of comments are only found on conservative sites, you aren't paying attention. The internet is a wasteland riddled with toxic comments from anonymous trolls of all types.

[Cortopassi]

I'm sure a lot of you read Zero Hedge, Fox News and other sites where comments are allowed.

If you think these types of comments are only found on conservative sites, you aren't paying attention. The internet is a wasteland riddled with toxic comments from anonymous trolls of all types.

Agreed, but the other site I generally use for the left side view, CNN, does not seem to allow comments, or I am not able to figure out how to view.

pug, my point is a lot of humans in this world suck. Regardless of age.

I should stop looking at this stuff, but work is slow...

[Cortopassi]

I am starting to think moda, Vinny and I are the only left leaning people on this forum anymore...

[Kriegsspiel]

I am starting to think moda, Vinny and I are the only left leaning people on this forum anymore...

I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one

[Mountaineer]

I am starting to think moda, Vinny and I are the only left leaning people on this forum anymore...

Lean left another 300 degrees and you will be in good company.

[mukramesh]

I am starting to think moda, Vinny and I are the only left leaning people on this forum anymore...

I'm also left leaning... but I try to stay out of online political discussions.

[Xan]

I am starting to think moda, Vinny and I are the only left leaning people on this forum anymore...

Lean left another 300 degrees and you will be in good company.

TURN left 300 degrees and you're facing a different direction. LEAN left 300 degrees and you've fallen over.

[Mountaineer]

I am starting to think moda, Vinny and I are the only left leaning people on this forum anymore...

Lean left another 300 degrees and you will be in good company.

TURN left 300 degrees and you're facing a different direction. LEAN left 300 degrees and you've fallen over.

Maybe. But the presupposition then is they aren’t in a zero gravity environment. I’m not quite sure about that. Sometimes it seems they could be in far outer space. . I expect they say the same about the right leaners.

[Smith1776]

Pseudo-anonymity and not having to look a person in the face certainly enables a lot of this behaviour.

I once read a book about online behaviour and I believe there's actually a name for this: online identity disassociation.

[Cortopassi]

Pseudo-anonymity and not having to look a person in the face certainly enables a lot of this behaviour.

I once read a book about online behaviour and I believe there's actually a name for this: online identity disassociation.

We should all do a test. Who'd be willing to put a real picture of themselves as their avatar and real name? You already know my last name. First is Mike. And I'll continue the ND theme.

[Smith1776]

Pseudo-anonymity and not having to look a person in the face certainly enables a lot of this behaviour.

I once read a book about online behaviour and I believe there's actually a name for this: online identity disassociation.

We should all do a test. Who'd be willing to put a real picture of themselves as their avatar and real name? You already know my last name. First is Mike. And I'll continue the ND theme.

My avatar is indeed a real picture of myself.

[dualstow]

Pseudo-anonymity and not having to look a person in the face certainly enables a lot of this behaviour.

I once read a book about online behaviour and I believe there's actually a name for this: online identity disassociation.

We should all do a test. Who'd be willing to put a real picture of themselves as their avatar and real name? You already know my last name. First is Mike. And I'll continue the ND theme.

Could I borrow your social security number for a little bit?
Actually, we had a thread where Vinny expressed surprise at the discovery that we don’t all use real names, because he was on a forum where they did that.

You’re a nice looking fellow, btw. Not at all what I pictured. (Those are two separate comments, so don’t repost that out of context kriegs )

[yankees60]

Pseudo-anonymity and not having to look a person in the face certainly enables a lot of this behaviour.

I once read a book about online behaviour and I believe there's actually a name for this: online identity disassociation.

We should all do a test. Who'd be willing to put a real picture of themselves as their avatar and real name? You already know my last name. First is Mike. And I'll continue the ND theme.

I've been doing it since day one.

However, I was again today thinking about the responses I got when I asked why almost everyone else used these strange names. Just about all of them made sense. But I've never been In any online place where I presented myself as other than myself.

Vinny

[yankees60]

Pseudo-anonymity and not having to look a person in the face certainly enables a lot of this behaviour.

I once read a book about online behaviour and I believe there's actually a name for this: online identity disassociation.

We should all do a test. Who'd be willing to put a real picture of themselves as their avatar and real name? You already know my last name. First is Mike. And I'll continue the ND theme.

Could I borrow your social security number for a little bit?
Actually, we had a thread where Vinny expressed surprise at the discovery that we don’t all use real names, because he was on a forum where they did that.

You’re a nice looking fellow, btw. Not at all what I pictured. (Those are two separate comments, so don’t repost that out of context kriegs )

Yes, I in a just prior post here I referenced what I thought was a Topic that I started. And, it was not a forum I was citing. I think I stated just about every other email discussion list I've ever been on that I witnessed people doing that. And for me also Facebook, Twitter. I just cannot think where I have hidden it anywhere.

Vinny

[Mountaineer]

Pseudo-anonymity and not having to look a person in the face certainly enables a lot of this behaviour.

I once read a book about online behaviour and I believe there's actually a name for this: online identity disassociation.

We should all do a test. Who'd be willing to put a real picture of themselves as their avatar and real name? You already know my last name. First is Mike. And I'll continue the ND theme.

Great picture Mike. Perhaps it's the angle, but it appears your right shoulder is a bit lower than the left. Are you starting to lean right?

[Cortopassi]

Great picture Mike. Perhaps it's the angle, but it appears your right shoulder is a bit lower than the left. Are you starting to lean right?

Well, I was at Notre Dame... While a lot of universities lean far left, ND seems pretty balanced and even very right on some issue like pro-life.

[Cortopassi]

You’re a nice looking fellow, btw. Not at all what I pictured.

Interestingly, I just realized I don't picture any of you, I only ascribe male or female in my mind, and who knows if you all are portraying that truly!

[dualstow]

Internet comments: I remember the internet being particularly vicious with Anna Gunn, who played the wife of Walter White on Breaking Bad. It wasn’t quite clear if they didn’t like the character of Skyler (sp?) or Gunn herself, but it got so bad that Vince Gilligan asked her not to read certain websites. She finally published an op-ed about it against “Villigan’s” advice.

I think she’s a good actress.

(haha, yes, Corto I’m male. I think my mental image came from an older avatar of yours. How do we know your avatar isn’t a picture lifted off Facebook. )

[barrett]

I am starting to think moda, Vinny and I are the only left leaning people on this forum anymore...

Left leaning also. But today's left seems to be way to the left of me as I age.

I also hate all the trolling in comments sections and just don't read them anymore. People should not behave totally different online than they would in person. Fortunately for me, I am not on social media.