Pot-Stirring Time

[Occhidiangela]

Furthermore, few people online understand how to disagree without being disagreeable. Online interaction is so impersonal, so fraught with assurances of anonymity, and so littered with the maladjusted and juvenile, that there are no social repercussions for acting like a jackass.

No fooling, and not just on Blizz forums. Hardly news, but I suppose it felt good for him to say it. ;) As to italicized bit, we all fall into that trap now and again. *blush*

  I fully support requiring not only registration for participating in official forums, but also the use of your actual name and a visible email address. This is no guarantee that someone won't be a jerk, but it's a start. If you want to participate in discussions on an official forum, you don't get to role play. They're there as themselves, you should be there as yourself.

I disagree, but that is due to a personal bias: I have been nicknamed most of my life, and going by nicknames works just fine. I spent some years being referred to by a professional nom du guerre: Doktor Demento. (No, I was not that crazy DJ, but someone hung that handle on me and it stuck like Epoxy™). However, I do agree with the his general idea concerning accountability for one's interactions with folks on a discussion forum: keep it reasonably civil. It helps to pretend you are in a bar talking it over with the other poster, while a pint apiece being slowly drained to accompany the discussion.

They’re there because they have the decency to honor your eagerness for attention and interaction. The least you can do is drop your self-important sense of entitlement and conduct yourself with a modicum of courtesy.

Can I get an "Amen?" Can I get a "Halleluah?" Preach it, Brother Finch, preach it!!! :D