I mostly have stopped reading comments to this blog because what passes for “discussion” in the comments section tends to be inane, rude, and/or vapid, and often all three at the same time. “On the World wide web, no one knows that you’re a dog,” goes the saying. Or that you’re a jerk.
Now, most people are not jerks. They just become losers when cloaked in anonymity. They state things they’d never say if confronted with the people they flame on discussion boards, in comments sections, etc. They’re probably nice people “in real life.” It’s just on the internet that they let it all hang out, to the detriment of the internet and intelligent discussion.
Take the comments to one of my recent posts. The first is led off by “h3h” who apparently has no sense of humor (completely missing my point in the post), but can’t leave it at that, then going on to lob ad hominems into his “argument.”
“H3h” turns out to be Brad Fults. Judging from his Flickr feed and Twitter feed, he’s probably an OK guy. He happens to be wrong in the way he selected to comment on this blog, but he’s probably a well-intentioned person, normally.
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