Negative Message Boards
Former WCW professional wrestler Disco Inferno was on Main Event Radio and had this to say about Internet message board fans:
All Internet wrestling fans are basically critics. You don’t see a lot of praise online. Not even only wrestling forums, but you look at political forums, sports forums, any type of message boards and it just breathes a very negative atmosphere. I’m convinced that what people do is that they cut promos against each other. A message board or forum is a free way to go online and basically argue and cut promos on each other. The problem that I have is that some of the ideas that people talk about online have a snowball effect and so many people start writing about them that they become fact. To me, they become erroneous facts.
The fact is…he’s right. I have a lot of hobbies (probably too many), and every time I go on a message board forum or blog (including my own), I see some similar themes and patterns:
1) There are apologists and bootlickers who support the website administration.
2) There are posters full of hate, anger, and frustration.
3) They usually get into illogical “SHOUTING” debates with the apologists.
4) No one actually wins these “arguments”.
5) The “facts” are all wrong, and generally change as you keep reading a thread.
6) Tony Vahl and Damian Hospital believe that most of the posters are sock puppets.
7) Being anonymous is an addictive feeling, and leads to people to be impolite, sarcastic, and mean. The person that rants, raves, and is “confrontational” online is teh same geek that can’t even look at you straight in the eye in real life.
Having an “online identity” HAS to be hazardous to one’s health.
9) The atmosphere is extremely negative.
10) If there is a positive thing about message boards, it’s that they easily unravel scams and tear apart conventional or mainstream thinking: NOTHING and NO ONE is sacred from criticism. Although most of the time, it is unwarranted, occasionally it can be very helpful.
11) Another positive aspect is that people with similar interests can swap information and get questioned answered very quickly, and it’s a great place for like minds to stroke each other’s ego. However, back in my day, people did this in “real life”. We as a society are headed down the road (or may already be there) where human interact becomes secondary.
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the atmosphere online is identical to the atmosphere of the mainstream media whether its radio, tv, or anything else.
the net is no better and no worse.
the environment described of arguments that solve nothing, incorrect facts, biased apologists, fake identities and fake credentials .. etc
whether its sports or politics thats the way the world is everywhere.
this environment is not unique to the internet.
im sick of people blaming the internet for everything.
one of these days the internet is going to finally be sick and tired of being everybody’s scapegoat for everything and will just rise up and kick everybody’s ass.
the internet will finally decide that its had enough, rise up and just go nuts on everybody, it will be like one of those godzilla movies.
and ill be cheering the whole thing on.
because i praised the internet while everybody else was criticizing it, i will of course be spared from its wrath.
the rest of you people are doomed.
viva la internet.