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| anepalikt |
Posted
on 24-Jan-02 01:50 PM
I have noticed how people love lists. Folks seem to come up with lists for everything. I am noticed folks love to respond to a fellow poster by copying someone's post onto their reply and responding to each sentence or arguement point by point......................... well, here is my own list and it is about the annoying stuff people do online or rather simply stuff I have found annoying in my own online experince.
1. type all in CAPS.
2. write as if everything goes: be sexist, racist, and plain dumb, but think they are funny.
3. try to guess who a poster is or tell some poster "I think I know who you are."
4. get all worked up when someone calls you on something you say.
5. try and replicate the way one fuctions in the world in the cyber world.... i.e. try and belong in the "in" crowd or try and develop an "in" crowd... the "creme de la creme of Nepali cyber space" in the case of gbnc.
6. make assumptions, generalizations, and arguments with nothing to back them up.
7. act like the online experience has to be some sort of a cathartic life changing experince ...
8. act like the message board is a confessional.
9. display that "Jun thaal ma khancha tyasmai thukne" prabirti or maybe it is better termed a FALSE sense of entitlement.... can't really tell at times, but it is about having no loyalties, no obligations, no investment in where you are, who surrounds you and who will most likely come to your aid when you need help.
9. equate visiting a chatroom or participating in a message board to being part of "real" democracy.
10. make lists.
disclaimer: I have done everyone of these myself.
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| anepalikt |
Posted
on 24-Jan-02 01:53 PM
And of course, wha I started the above posting with...
11. posters responding to a fellow poster by copying the entire post onto their reply and responding to each sentence or arguement point by point.........................
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| NhucHcHe |
Posted
on 24-Jan-02 02:16 PM
Hi Anepalikt, i really liked your observations but want to write back something for the heck of it.
>1. type all in CAPS.
WHEN YOU TYPE IN CAPS, IT'S EASIER TO READ AND THE READERS WILL GET THE POINT ACROSS MORE EASILY SO PEOPLE SHOULD NOT MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT WRITINGIN CAPS
>2. write as if everything goes: be sexist,
>racist, and plain dumb, but think they are
>funny.
When you don't have a face and are enjoying anonymity, the true self comes out - which i guess is racist, sexist and plain dumb :)
>3. try to guess who a poster is or tell some
>poster "I think I know who you are."
I've never figured out how some people are able to do that. like someone pointed out GP was hahooguru.. I've never been that keen as to spot a writing by same user under different names
>4. get all worked up when someone calls you
>on something you say.
I hope you don't get worked up when I respond this way
>5. try and replicate the way one fuctions in
>the world in the cyber world.... i.e. try
>and belong in the "in" crowd or try and
>develop an "in" crowd... the "creme de la
>creme of Nepali cyber space" in the case of
>gbnc.
Of course, I am important and I want to belong to the best group in town.
>6. make assumptions, generalizations, and
>arguments with nothing to back them up.
Yes, 95.7 % of the internet viewers feel the same way - as shown by a survey done by Albert Husman from Philadelphia, in September 2001, in his publication in the Philadelphian, volume 6, issue 342
>7. act like the online experience has to be
>some sort of a cathartic life changing
>experince ...
Yes I get bored when i feel otherwise.
>8. act like the message board is a
>confessional.
Gives me a sense of belonging. Yeah i
>9. display that "Jun thaal ma khancha
>tyasmai thukne" prabirti or maybe it is
>better termed a FALSE sense of entitlement...
>. can't really tell at times, but it is
>about having no loyalties, no obligations,
>no investment in where you are, who
>surrounds you and who will most likely come
>to your aid when you need help.
jis thali mein khate hai usi mein ched karta hai
>9. equate visiting a chatroom or
>participating in a message board to being
>part of "real" democracy.
this is the closest anyone can come to democracy.. more democracy would be anarchy!
>10. make lists.
>
Let's add to the list
> 11. posters responding to a fellow poster by copying the entire post onto their reply and responding to each sentence or arguement point by point.........................
I won't respond to this last one.
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| anepalikt |
Posted
on 24-Jan-02 02:27 PM
Nice, NhucHcHe! Just what I expected! But you did NOT do justice to a couple of the points! Expected more from you, boy! You should have gone all out and typed all in CAPS, called me names, pointed out that my post was the dumbest you have seen in a while, confessed you are truely in love with GP, and tried to guess who I was or expose my real identity.
:)
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| NhucHcHe |
Posted
on 24-Jan-02 02:29 PM
ooohkay that's what i wanted to do when I started to write but then I got high...
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| krishna |
Posted
on 24-Jan-02 02:51 PM
I THINK I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. TEE HEE! ;)
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| anepalikt |
Posted
on 24-Jan-02 02:56 PM
Krishna oh Krishna, reveal thyself to me! ha ha!
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| krishna |
Posted
on 24-Jan-02 03:32 PM
>Krishna oh Krishna, reveal thyself to me!
You are the too much funny (wo)man! What is the saying? Don't ask which way the bato goes if you aren't going to take it.
Like my 2nd most-favorite t-shirt in Nepal says, "See You".
LARKIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
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| ashu |
Posted
on 25-Jan-02 01:42 AM
Hi anepalikt,
As that famous Nepali poem goes: "Santaan Thari Thari kaa"
This site would be a boring place if everyone here:
(to make a list :-) ]
a) thought alike.
b) wrote alike.
c) acted alike.
d) argued alike
e) joked alike.0
f) and were alike in terms of backgrounds, values, belief-system, hobbies and so on and on.
So LET there be diversity of visitors in full sense of the word: of ideas, people, habits, personalities, ethnic and professional backgrounds, interests and so on and on.
Santaan thari thari ka, indeed.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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