*hugs* Sorry that happened to you, hun. I'm curious to which comm this is...
While it's not right, if I see snarky/rude posts and I read comments to it that are snarky/rude I'm not surprised since that would be my first reaction too, but when the post is polite, but maybe has a couple errors and the comments are bitchy I wonder what the hell is wrong the the commenter. This sort of reminds me of this time when an LJer's essay on Arthur Weasley was linked to from one of the fandom newletters and people ripped her apart for it - she wrote it in English which wasn't her first language and had some grammatical errors. Like 90-95% of all the comments were rude and belittling, it was really sad to see. Heh, that was a long tangent...
I think sometimes people forget that behind the monitors there are real people. I seriously doubt that most people on the internet would say some of the things I see to people in RL, and only do so because of the relative anonimity.
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Date: 2006-03-24 07:29 pm (UTC)Sorry that happened to you, hun. I'm curious to which comm this is...
While it's not right, if I see snarky/rude posts and I read comments to it that are snarky/rude I'm not surprised since that would be my first reaction too, but when the post is polite, but maybe has a couple errors and the comments are bitchy I wonder what the hell is wrong the the commenter. This sort of reminds me of this time when an LJer's essay on Arthur Weasley was linked to from one of the fandom newletters and people ripped her apart for it - she wrote it in English which wasn't her first language and had some grammatical errors. Like 90-95% of all the comments were rude and belittling, it was really sad to see.
Heh, that was a long tangent...
I think sometimes people forget that behind the monitors there are real people. I seriously doubt that most people on the internet would say some of the things I see to people in RL, and only do so because of the relative anonimity.