Superhans
Banned
Well I congratulate you on being able to differentiate between words on a screen, words on a piece of paper, words down a length of cable and words in your ear. But they're still coming from another human being.
It's a very simplistic view and a specious point. If a friend sent you an email, or perhaps even posted something complimentary about you on this very forum you'd take it seriously.
If you did regard the forum in that way, you wouldn't use it.
What exactly have people done that would suggest they're taking it too seriously? No one's murdered anyone over Solo. They just act with further "Words on a screen".
Yeh but they are a friend, and therefore someone I would know in real life, so of course if they send me an email calling me a derogatory name then I will be offended by it. If someone I've never met, am very likely to never meet and know very little about calls me a derogatory name then why would that ever bother me? It just wouldn't. I would say that you can become friends with somebody you meet online, but ony when you have been talking to them on a personal basis for a while, so that you actually know things about them, and therefore what they say becomes more personal to you. Other than that they are just a faceless name on a website, the 'human' aspect is removed.
People put people on 'ignore' is one such example of people taking things just a tad too seriously, don't you think? Another is whole essays with regards to the actions of the mods here. I mean, seriously, how can something with so little importance bother someone so much to do that?