Comments on: you know who i blame? the lurkers http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2009/09/22/you-know-who-i-blame-the-lurkers/ Casual Dismissals from Danny O'Brien Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:17:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Carl Morris http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2009/09/22/you-know-who-i-blame-the-lurkers/comment-page-1/#comment-1303 Carl Morris Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:13:44 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1358#comment-1303 Maybe it's about perceived size of audience. (For instance, YouTube is about as big-seeming a "community" there could be and the manners over there are simple appalling.) If your theory about the decline of the public register is correct, maybe we can expect online civility to improve in inverse proportion. Somebody else's foolishness just becomes irrelevant. There's an art and science to <a href="http://xkcd.com/386/" rel="nofollow">which fights you pick</a> too. Maybe it’s about perceived size of audience. (For instance, YouTube is about as big-seeming a “community” there could be and the manners over there are simple appalling.)

If your theory about the decline of the public register is correct, maybe we can expect online civility to improve in inverse proportion. Somebody else’s foolishness just becomes irrelevant. There’s an art and science to which fights you pick too.

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