netiquette

[story645]

Does adherence to netiquette resemble a normal curve?

When I first got into fandom I was a bit rude and snotty and bratty cause I was still unfamiliar with the codes of behavior for fandom. I wasn't so terrible because I kept in mind that I was interacting with other people, but a lot of my early posts make me cringe. I spent some time in fandom,

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[kerosinkanister]

Have people on lj always been this hypersensitive or am I just noticing it now cause I keep getting jumped on for slips?

I think people on the internet have always been too sensitive, the perils of communicating without all the non-verbal cues I guess. For the inverse example I know I've wrote things that seem to have annoyed you, though it's hard to tell whether your response has been exasperated, snarky, amused, or what, especially since humor translates exceptionally poorly without making a real effort. But I know I've a tendency to be an argumentative person anyway. I've been meaning to ask your opinion of my response to a fic for a bit now, but I keep forgetting. And I probably won't email until I'm done with Westmark completely.

I skimmed fanficrants but didn't see any comments by you. But I did stumble across a fantastic rant that I remember from awhile ago. The poster of said rant is upset because she, being a Sirius/Hermione fan, was spoiled in the summary for Sirius's death: ... )

[story645]

You don't even get verbal cues like tone or volume. Considering your examples, I was probably making poking fun at whatever you were talking about anyway, but I get how it can get very confusing. I don't find you argumentative, but that's mostly cause I'm probably very argumentative. I figure now would be a good time to ask me about that response, considering you're remembering it

[kerosinkanister]

I try to have a thick skin about online stuff, and it's not worth getting fussed over things, though of course sometimes I do. Missing tone and volume is huge as well.

I figure now would be a good time to ask me about that response, considering you're remembering it.I honestly didn't have any specific example in mind when I commented, though I did find one here: http://kerosinkanister.livejournal.com/4242.html?thread=27026#t27026... )

[kerosinkanister]

Sorry for the crappy link.

[author_by_night]

I think when we first get onto the net, we tend to forget that the people we're dealing with are actual human beings. So it's much easier to let out that snark we don't show IRL

[story645]

yeah but you usually end up on F-W cause you disagree with the popular fandom opinion of "different strokes/different folks", not cause you're particularly obnoxious.

I don't know what that's about...
Maybe cause it gets a bit tiring to say the same thing for three years? Maybe more? I'm way less patient with some arguments just cause I've seen 'em so many times and they're almost always not any better than they were the first 87 times.