Not Actually a Drunkpost....

Aug 22, 2011 02:28

... but I love you guys! *Sloppy hug*In the past month of exploration of new and exciting social media I've seen more rampant, nasty, and clueless bigotry than you'd find if you took an escalator upskirt photographer and bred him with a crazed weasel, and then bred the resultant progeny to that dude on rpg.net who thought that the black clerics ( Read more... )

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mizkit August 22 2011, 10:22:28 UTC
We love you too. *beams* :)

Also, the idea that WoW could be less cesspittery than other places is just, well, wow. O.O

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flit August 22 2011, 10:43:19 UTC
I knowwwww. Wow!

<3

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bryant August 22 2011, 11:11:27 UTC
The new generation is doing better than ours. Not perfect, but better.

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flit August 22 2011, 17:47:49 UTC
True! Though some things are still the same. And sexism has actually gotten worse on some comics/gaming boards than it was Back In My Day. Though Brad's opinion is that it's not that it's worse, it's that it's more visible -- those same people were just saying those things behind my back then.

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bryant August 22 2011, 18:35:15 UTC
I agree with Brad. Politeness is on the downswing on the whole. Trolling as a recreational activity sees to that. But underlying attitudes are improving.

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flit August 22 2011, 19:02:05 UTC
Huh, making it visible being the first step to improving it, maybe? I wanted to hug Sansa about her 'no homophobic slurs on my boards' post. Of course I've seen that before somewhere.... ;)

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