thread starter l3aboSin May 06 2009
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| It Takes a Village Idiot: The Jerks of Online Forums by JR Raphael, PC World The Jerks of Online Forums I just wanted to share this link with you guys I was viewing the slide show and it got me thinking ...i've seen ALL of these " online forum behaviors" on basilmarket... 1. The FIRST! GuyThe text of your choice. PC World said: ""FIRST!" Clever? No. Original? No. Ironically self-mocking in a postmodern deconstructionist kind of way?" 2. The Self-Promoter PC World said: "You should check out my blog..." 3. The Sermonator PC World said: "...the Sermonator trolls forums to find some way to divert the conversation to his favorite subject -- most often something related to morals, religion or a particular political view " 4. Mr. Credentials PC World said: "focus on his superior curriculum vitae, then he/she'll launch into a 500-word essay designed to show just how well-versed he is on the subject at hand" 5. The Antagonizer PC World said: "primitive level, resorting to personal attacks and insults in what may be a nostalgic flashback to carefree bygone days as a third-grade bully " 6. The Moderator PC World said: "Taking a slightly subtler approach to making "foreign" visitors feel unwelcome" 7. Peacekeeper PC World said: "Though the Peacekeeper's intentions are good, his actions end up clogging the forum with pages of useless and often long-winded discussions of _______________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ that are every bit as annoying as the attacks themselves" 8. Smarty Pants PC World said: "the Smarty Pants' goal is to find and expose inaccuracies -- no matter how insignificant -- solely as a means to demonstrate his intellectual "superiority" like factual errers, grammatical errers, typoos -- " 9. Fanboy PC World said: "The Fanboy defends a particular product (or job class w/e) under any circumstances, no matter what the scenario" 10. The Conspiracy Theorist PC World said: "The Conspiracy Theorist is often convinced that he's under constant surveillance by the government (or Nexon / hackers) -- for some reason they've singled him out" 11. The Signature Dork N/a Does not apply to basilmarket 12. Johnny One-Word PC World said: " tendency to express his dismay in comments of a single word: "Lame." "Whatever." "Wrong." "Fail." " Pc World "The list of jerks could go on forever. Our list, however, ends here. What message board behavior drives you the farthest up a wall?" ...or guilty of committing l3abosin Over my longgg stay with basilmarket and have read manyyyy comments and threads and found many ppl who exhibited these "behaviors" Im not saying its entirely bad to have some of these characterist |
