Comments on: Anonymity on the Internet…Is it Your Anonymity or the Audience’s that Brings Out the Fuckwad? http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/ There's no bacon like Holy Bacon Sun, 12 May 2013 07:51:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: A Call To Action: The End of Female Gamer Stereotypes and Why I Entered the Maxim Contest « http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4711 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:30:57 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4711 [...] Just remember before you comment that I’m a real person, with real feelings and just because y…. Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. Leave a Comment by Lynesta on April 11, 2012  •  Permalink Posted in Feminism Tagged Feminism, Gamers, games, Maxim, Stereotypes, trading cards, Women, World of Warcraft, wowtcg [...]

]]> By: Ophelie http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4709 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:33:03 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4709 Thanks! It’s my desperate attempt to convince myself that every bad/annoying/really not funny person on the internet isn’t really a sociopath!

I don’t think anonymity, be it of the person or the audience, is ever an excuse, but I do believe that by understanding online social behaviours better, we can give everyone (especially younger people who are more vulnerable to online risks) a better internet experience.

]]> By: Ophelie http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4708 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:27:58 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4708 But for every 10 fuckwads, we might discover one person who is awesome without their inhibitions!

I didn’t think about movies, but that’s a fantastic example you bring up. When movie makers want the viewers to be detached from bad guy/victims/person about to die, those characters are portrayed very vaguely. When they want the viewers to be engaged and moved by a death/murder/bad thing, they give us close up shots and character histories.

]]> By: Matojo http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4707 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:36:02 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4707 This is a good post.

I never thought about the idea of the audience being anonymous being the reason trolls get off so much on what they do, but it does make sense. It really IS easier to be mean to a stranger than a friend, after all, so, yeah. Hm.

]]> By: Megacode http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4706 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:40:09 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4706 That is exactly the case of the family members who acted out of line on Fb. As miserable as their comments were on Fb, IRL they’re just as unhappy. It’s sad how some people just can’t focus on making their own lives better, and instead waste alot of energy on trying to cause drama. Lately been seeing alot of it in game/Internet.

]]> By: Ophelie http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4705 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:37:57 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4705 Facebook just seems bring out the childishness in people! It’s impressive how asinine a lot of behaviour is on Facebook. I’m kind of tempted to side with the Lord of the Flies thing when things get personal on Facebook. Those who turn into big babies on Facebook, are big babies in real life too, just cowardly big babies.

I don’t think I act much different on the internet than in real life either. I suppose that those of us who are happy with who we are and proud of our identities have nothing to gain in behaving bizarrely online.

]]> By: Sunnier http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4704 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:33:21 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4704 The idea that it’s the anonymity of the audience, not necessarily the troll, that matters never occurred to me until this post, but it totally makes sense. We all know that it’s easier to be cruel to a bunch of faceless strangers (like in movies where the evil henchmen have masks or helmets, so you don’t feel bad when the heros kill them).

Maybe instead of telling shy people to imagine their audience is wearing only underwear, we should tell them to imagine their audience is completely anonymous (and possibly wearing masks). Or maybe that’s dangerous and will only create more internet fuckwads.

]]> By: Ophelie http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4703 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:27:05 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4703 Eh, I don’t think Penny Arcade is an anti-fuckwad crusade. The Fuckwad Theory is just an observation they made, about how a lot of individuals behave differently on the internet than they would in real life. And this post is also an observation on internet behavior, not a debate on specific ethics (granted, I wrote very judgmentally and mostly spoke of cruelty. Online disinhibition applies to embarrassing behaviour as well, like posting nude pictures of oneself).

]]> By: K. http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4702 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:21:08 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4702 Ironically (or not), Penny Arcade is just as guilty of promoting anonymous fuckwads given their role in being rape apologists and encouraging their fans to troll and harass rape survivors during the Dickwolves fiasco.

]]> By: Ffpmmarc http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/anonymity-on-the-internet-is-it-your-anonymity-or-the-audiences-that-brings-out-the-fuckwad/#comment-4701 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:51:08 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=3162#comment-4701 Great write up. Over the last year I’ve tried to be less anonymous and get more involved with the Internet community. I’ve been lucky enough to chat with some great people. Like your post says, people hide behind the cover of the Internet so that they can be nasty and cruel. My family has also been attacked over Facebook and the sad thing was that it was family :( Perhaps I just have good morals, but I treat every person I come across over Twitter, Facebook , or Flickr with the same respect and dignity I would expect for myself. It is a small world and Karma is all around us.

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