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by xentity

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When people get in a car, often a new character comes over them. Some become aggressive, fist shaking, wild drivers. George Carlin, the comedian, quipped the degree to which a person is a jerk (politely put) is directly proportional to the get-a-way factor.

Likewise, online personalities become wild and elements of peoples egos that are normally suppressed become accentuated online. There is also the problem of communication in writings as facial expression and other body language normally observed are removed from online conversations.

What kind of personalities have you seen? What is the worst you have seen? What is the best you have seen?

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by tony hopkinson

the lack of facial expression when communicating in this medium is to use one of these. :D .

The one above is called grin and is used to show you are not hassling someone.

So you might try responding with this one :8} called blush and used for oh sorry I misunderstood you.

Or this one ?:| called confused if you still don't get it.

As for on line personalities. I'm a well known stroppy c*nt, I know this because some people respond to me with things like "You are a stroppy c*nt"

I'm OK with this because people respond exactly the same way face to face as well. ]:)

Edited because I mistyped ]:)

by xentity

So the facial avatars that are inserted sort of effect a sense of being with the person. However, they are contrived and not of the instance.

Is there anyone you would qualify as being misunderstood frequently because of their writing style?

by oz_media

I have sen mltiple aliases used by the same user, each with a different personality.

Myself, in my day to day life, I am easy going but a cut and dry person. I call it as I see it. I am a very firm believer in being myself all the time, though I do get carried away sometimes here.

by oz_media

I am told almost daily that I am easu going and impossible to worry. It takes a LOT to get me worried or preoccipied thinking about something these days. Life has made me see it as completely unpredictable and I'm just along for the ride.

Like I said, I have fun here, I puch buttons etc. and nobody really knows how to take it.

I real life, I do the same but everyone knows me and ses it as just my cut and dry, no BS approach to life. This is also a result of taking everything in stride, I can tak it so I have no problem dishing it out. If you can't take it, don't bother getting into it with me, I won't be sorry and I won't hold back. nuff said.

by tony hopkinson

posting in upper case is called SHOUTING.

People will ascribe a personality characteristic to you if you do it a lot.

by tony hopkinson

Your alias can also be indicative. Yours says I don't give a F... what you think !

Mine's a bit more neutral.

Perhaps I should change it to IrritatingGit or something.

by xentity

I have been just observing many of the conversations on here and how people think.

Some people are quite narrow minded. They have an opinion and that is that.

Other people seem to make their theology, science, or social understanding.

Then there are a few that are here just to lamblast anyone and everyone equally.

It is quite a wild time observing people here.

by tony hopkinson

As you said there is so much information missing that you get from face to face.
Body language, expression, tone.

Then there's language. Not just if one of our eastern colleagues posts but even those with native 'english' consistently misunderstand each other.

Words themselves, a very imprecise way of communicating anything.

Personally I would say that most are not misunderstood, but not understood :( :D . A very different thing.

We get a lot of projection on here. A post will come across to you as angry or contemptuous, you promptly flame them and they come back with HUH?

What we post here are opinions, preferably backed up by facts (there are some who forget that bit).

One of the things you should factor in, is the numbers after our aliases. They are the number of times we've been judged to have helped someone.

You should also beware your own emotional involvement. Do you have strong feelings about global warming, or religion, or Microsoft ?

Assess mine if you want, there's a fair bit of material :D

Post the perception and then get some of the others to assess your assessment.

One thing I can say for myself is I've made no attempt to construct a false perception of who I am, well no more than I do in real life anyway. :p

by xentity

I am just wondering if something like You Tube could replace chats? One post their video in response to another post. I host of tools and creativity could go into it.

by tony hopkinson

over whether I'm being offensive or not.
It won't stop me offending people though.

Or others.

One of our great debates was on whether you could be moral if you weren't religious.

Serious lack of understanding in that debate, very little misunderstanding though.

by drowningnotwaving

a)I apologise to all concerned when I started on TR for jumping on the obnoxious bandwagon;

b) trying to learn how to use those smiley things but f-ck it is difficult. Clearly I'd never be able to set up a yahoo account and I'll probably lose sleep over that too; and

c) I love you Max.

by xentity

At least you realize it and are attempting to do something about it.

Sometimes computers can be more complicated than necessary. I just want to talk to mine. I hate typing, especially when I get a cold. That running nose just in the middle of an important thought! Its either blow or glow.

by fluxit

So many people think they know everything and get online with their super inflated egos orating a lot of garbage.

I have observed that people act like they are intellectuals but rarely know how to conduct an intellectual discussion.

Perhaps I should post my paper on this topic but too may people would too inclined to go off on it.

by xentity

You sound a bit put out. You studied intellectual conversations? What makes an intellectual conversation different from other conversations?

by drowningnotwaving

Big words = intellectual.

Just like your post just then. Very intellectual.

Smiley faces = nice.

Obnoxious seems to be the difficult one to define as that is soooooooooooooooooooooooo personal.

Calling a Republican voter a mercenary-dick-head will normally do it.

by fluxit

Of the topic! Everyone tends to digress into slams, cuts, and insults whenever their belief, no matter how wild, is challenged. They want to be right when deep inside they know they are not but continue to struggle to justify some off the wall idea.

Go read some of the mean spirited babble. When it is pointed out they project fault onto you. I don't want to name names but there are a few here that are off the deep end.

by xentity

Geobub, I have read some of your postings. Very deep thoughts. I think your Star Trek posting was particularly curious.

However, it seems you have no friends here. They seem to have missed the points you were trying to make.

by fluxit

Are you one of these men who pose as a female online personality? I have not observe many femine qualities in your postings.

by maecuff

How does one post in a 'femine' way? (I assume you meant feminine). I can't really dot my i's with hearts and flowers, can I? What makes a post feminine or masculine? Do I lose my 'girl' card if I have an opinion? Or, do I only lose it if I have an opinion that differs from yours? Are females supposed to just agree with what men say? Or is it just YOU that should be agreed with?

Can you explain to me how YOUR posts are masculine?

by Member 25348569

that he used slip into a rather nasty, misogynist persona when rattled. Looks like you've got to him...

:D

Hit him with your shovel - that nice pink one with the shiny stainless blade.

by Member 25348569

It won't help so much if he goes into Full-On Tyke Mode but should assist you in translating him and Gadget - and me, I suppose - when we lapse into British English. Actually, if Gadget morphs into Geordie Mode, you're buggered anyway just the same.

http://tinyurl.com/tbi7

You'll find 'stroppy' between 'strop' and 'strum'. :p

Neil :D

p.s. I hope in jd's fantasy (I worry about that boy) that you were calling me a wretch rather than having GG retch at the sight of me...

by deepsand

It's now bookmarked, in my [i]Reference[/i] sub-directory/folder.

Perhaps now I'll have an easier time with the [i]London Times[/i] Sunday crossword puzzles.

by Member 25348569

Justify that post. Give some examples of where any peer's wild beliefs have been challenged and the peer has digressed into slams and cuts.

Anyone other than yourself, that is. :)

Give some examples of mean spirited babble.

From anyone other than yourself, that is. :)

Neil :D

I resisted the temptation to post when you returned with your new alias. It was enough for a while to have creamed you in the EL thread. I've given in to the craving. I will admit that I've missed you, you patronising, misogynist git...

by tony hopkinson

Knew it was one of the two.
I didn't resist, then I regretted it.
Science of Star Trek to God is our savior, in three posts.

I should know better really.

by fluxit

See it has already begun. They cannot help themselves but to detoriate to this immature level.

by deepsand

While "friends" may not be wholly accurate, they were of like minds and behavior at [i]EL[/i].

by fluxit

Ippirate. You are the disgusting degrading immoral beast. Your word is now googlable for the whole world to see you as a idiot.

by maecuff

I might break a nail. Or my hair could get messed up.

And Neil, as I recall, he excused his behavior with calling his rants 'banter' or 'jokes'. At least I have a the stones to stand behind what I say (type). Although, I guess that's not very feminine of me to say that, is it?

by deepsand

where his mannerisms reminded me of a phrase from a ritualistic response required of all U.S. Naval Academy Plebes (freshmen) when asked "Why did you guess?", said phrase being "... and, relying more on a women's intuition than a Midshipman's erudition, ..."

by Member 25348569

You more so than me for the moment as he seems a bit fixated on women in flannel with male body parts.

But that may change at any time and then none of us is safe. :0

by maecuff

I have on a pink sweater and blue jeans and nary a male part in sight. Not even a strap on.

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