Drowned in Sound

Search


Drowned in Sound Event sponsored tours and events.

why do messageboards inevitably descend to slagging matches, insults etc?

43 votes
?
by brusma

i'm reading some of the comments of people on some threads (yeah, guess which ones) and getting really steamed up, i'm sure it works vice-versa. and we're all just so angry. see, this is what i hate about messageboards, whole bunches of people (and yes, i am as guilty as everyone else here) just get on their pedestal and spout abuse at other people for minor/major infractions to some code i for certain don't know. it's like the playground all over again, except with different matters.

why can't we all just get along?

brusma | 01 Feb '08, 16:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

bit boring

otherwise


:(

again.


<3

Group hug?


basically

because everyone else in the world is a cunt


yep

plus, you are a gay


i was going to come here

and be abusive, but then thought against it. possible reasons - people dont know each other, so you dont care if you offend them, not face to face so easier to be rude...


because (me included)

people like winding people up and watching them fly off their respective handles.


A (rare) serious answer.

It's because the message board puts everyone on an equal footing. For example, and it's a silly example, if I wanted tax advice, I wouldn't go to the butchers. But on the message board, you could be arguing with the butcher, but not know it's the butcher. An awkwardly worded and 'out there' example, but I think it gets the point across.

The anonymity of the message board gives 'experts' equal say with the idiots, but it's not clear which is which.

This is why, in real life for example, you wouldn't ask a child's opinion on foreign policy, but on here someone like fucktherave (nice dig) gets a platform well above his station.


you fucking arsehole

call me childish for that response, but you really are.


if this reply isn't slightly in jest i'm going to cry

what have you done to my thread? :'(


im aware of the irony yeah

he is an arsehole though :)


Haha,

It's a shame they got rid of the Maccabees board.


i very rarely

argue on messageboards, but the self-righteousness and pretiousness of some comments i've read on here today it quite unbelievable. that's the last time i enter a thread on middle eastern affairs.


and who decides his 'station'

you big bully?
I jest. Maybe.


heh


GOD ^

of the Boards. From what I have seen not one person here is more suited to this page than you. Never have I seen someone piss off as many people over nothing before, well played.


If you chose to bother arguing with someone

you see as 'below their station' then more fool you.

Of course, if I wanted to hear a clear-headed debate about foreign policy, I'd go to an academic not a politico


^above their station

.


BECAUSE THE INTERNET IS A DEADLY SERIOUS PLACE

I'M GOING TO MAKE PIZZA NOW BYE


there is more to making pizza

than dialling domino's number and speaking to a 'friend'.


pffft

i live on my own, do you think i can afford takeout?!?


*Takeaway

:D


FUCK YOU


good one


FUCK ME

sounds alot less insulting.
Just a bit desperate really...


I'd rather read a pointless argument

than have to read another:

"What's your favourite flavour of crisp?"
"Do you like the cold side of a pillow?"
"Aids is bad: Discuss"

....type thread. Maybe that's just me though.


oh, at least i've not had one of those yet

not even from Royter_Hatfood


Can't say

that I've had one either...clearly not trying hard enough ;)


I had a few non-nasty PMs of mrs. incognito after accusing them of being Wrightylew

They were like the ones Wrightylew sends me.


usually a toxic mixture of

stupidity
pomposity
naivety
taking things too seriously
lack of self-awareness


because

slagging matches are more fun? and we cant get beaten up or killed afterwards?

I like getting along with people though.


because you're a twat

.
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. not really.


I love you all

the immigrant loves you!


Because it makes people feel momentarily big big

in a life of abject pussydom.

They get to hide behind their computers and say things that they wouldn't dare say to another persons face for fear of getting a reet good kicking.


i say stuff like this to people in real life

and argue constantly

but im a bit of a cunt and find fights quite funny.

im actually less insulting on these boards than in real life- seriously.


I'm sure you do say stuff like that to friends and acquiantances but

you wouldn't call someone a cunt if you thought you might not get away with it though.


Because it's hard to convey irony over the internet

and so, in an awful lot of cases, you make a playful tongue in cheek remark which then gets misinterpreted by the next eejit who comes along and thus, the slanging commences.

At times like these I sometimes wish I were American.


Because no ones prepared

to change their mind admit they are wrong, or even modify their opinion!!


DiS

is the only one ive come accross that has the least amount of this compared to everwhere else...
if you want bad, just check any comments on YouTube... man thats a joke...


fuck u paki

etc...


wow

I've Make $3,000 Last Month From This Site:

PocketCash.isCool.Net_

ljbpiclsh h7xhw5f2f 47phgcom1 hx2y79kyz 6d9t4hv85 xjpqosidi 3ccmprl3d


:D <3

...joking, right?


nice!

go and reproduce so that any children you have are like you.


anonymity

Thats why.


drowned in sound makes me really, really angry

but i still come back here almost every day.

one day im gonna explode. i might adopt a more troll like personality just to upset everyone.

maybe everyone is like me.


also

i think it's because people are bored.

they should get out more etc.


because it's in the moral fibre of English people to be polite to people when you probably shouldn't

so you go round giving half-arsed smiles to people at work that you really don't care for, take shit off your mates when you shouldn't and generally sail through life taking the easy options. people have pent up anger, why not tell some randomer on a message board to fuck off? you're never going to do it in real life.


i don't seem to eleicit any sort of response from DiSsers

what am i doing wrong? Am i too reasonable? Am i just too boring? SOMEBODY CALL ME A CUNT PLEASE


ha, lols

the american office>the office.


No wai!

office > real life