Re: Food for Thought when posting to newsgroups

in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], tomw at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/3/03 1:27 PM:

> IMHO It's a real. Some of it real dumb.  I think that over time you get
> a pretty good sense of a poster's integrity and character.

I'd agree with that. This is just another form of communication. In a medium
that exists as words only, one will be judged by whatever's contained in the
words one chooses to put forth. So I think it's reasonable to deduce that
someone who's a habitual jerk on a newsgroup is probably a jerk in real
life. In face-to-face interaction, they may modify their style of jerkiness
(e.g., from belligerent to passive/aggressive) to avoid getting jacked up on
a regular basis, but their overall JQ (jerk quotient) is probably about the
same.
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