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socrates

This is from recession board - very very relevant to some of the people in the "in crowd" (you know who you are) on this board.


“There’s no point debating anything online. You might as well hurl shoes in the air to knock clouds from the sky. The internet’s perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain’t one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional ‘live audience’ quickly conspire to create a ‘perfect storm’ or perpetual bickering.

Stumble in, take umbrage with someone, trade a few blows, and within about two or three exchanges the subject itself goes out the window. Suddenly you’re simply arguing about arguing. Eventually one side gets bored, comes to its senses, or dies, and the row fizzles out: just another needless belch in the swirling online guffstorm.

But not for long, because online quarrelling is also addictive in precisely the same way Tetris is addictive. It appeals to the ‘lab rat’ part of your brain; the annoying, irrepressible part that adores repetitive pointlessness and would gleefully make you pop bubblewrap till Doomsday if it ever got its way. An unfortunate few, hooked on the futile thrill of online debate, devote their lives to its cause. They roam the internet, actively seeking out viewpoints they disagree with, or squat on message boards, whining, needling, sneering, over-analysing each new proclamation – joylessly fiddling, like unhappy gorillas doomed to pick lice from one another’s fur for all eternity.”

Treadway1

This has to be the funniest and most accurate view of any online forum site ever.

Its really is all about point scoring, with maybe two minutes devoted to answering the poor OP's original question. I must admit that I too have engaged in the odd bit of word exchange with fellow posters, (Well.... We all like a bit of one upmanship...;) ), but I do try to keep the conversation on point (I hope).

Absolutely brilliant post.

tommy75

socrates your an idiot and probably have the iq of a orangutan. Your post is a clueless rambling. Go read a book.

tbs624

Don't insult the big ginger monkey creatures with your keyboard warrior behaviour, tommy- see here They have *feelings* you know.....

socrates

tommy75 wrote: »

socrates your an idiot and probably have the iq of a orangutan. Your post is a clueless rambling. Go read a book.

Exactly the point of the author of this original post. Flamers!

Read it carefully - I copied it from the recession board!

If we are comparing one another to animals - a certain young elephant from a Disney film you really remind me of!

confused31_2

The first post is correct in a lot of cases, but to be honest some of the things people post on here, they need to be slated has some post's are complete nonsense.

What i have noticed is people will post things what they want to happen, not necessarily whats going to happen.

tomstickland

Charlie Brooker wrote it in an article.
I don't agree though, the online thing is perfect for debate.

angelfire

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought this forum was about house buying renting and selling? please take your squabbles elsewhere!

Running_Horse

What "in crowd"?

I just see lots of posts by lots of different people.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else.

This must be the most pointless thread in this forum.

tommy75

My post was ment to be taken lightly.

JonnyBravo

tommy75 wrote: »

My post was ment to be taken lightly.

Seemed obvious to me.

And yet it went right over the heads of some..... including socratres who has been hugely self-amused by his understanding on the nature of internet forums

:rolleyes: