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YouTubeI read the Dispatch on-line. I like local news. So when I read the story about the Crew I commented on how cool it was that my local team did this. THEN I read the other comments. and then comments on some of the other stories. Now I realize that I am a delicate fucking flower and all but, WTF is up with the other people in my city??? Am I the only one that is horrified at some of the shit people are writing? Anonymity may lead one to be perhaps be more free with social unacceptable opinions but fuck me, this was just a bit more than I thought was lurking behind the WORST of people in my area code. they can't be "real", right??? It's really just a handful of bored, angry teens who are trolling for people to enrage. right?
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berdawn
near that stretch of N. High Street in the Short North
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TaraK wrote >>
Could you provide a link? I want to know what you're talking about.This is for the Crew story. God help me, but I responded to one of them.
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/columbus-dispatch/TIA5LKQ6KO21PQOSB
This is where I got grossed out:
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/columbus-dispatch/TI9HHOM942CNJVGR9They link from different Dispatch stories to a central message area.
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http://www.topix.net/forum/columbus/TPPKC5B1T6RAFIA7Fhttp://www.topix.net/forum/columbus/T5FT3C3T7KH4D9175
OK, I seriously don't live near people who would write this...it must be satire.Posted 2 years ago # -
TaraK
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I learned from teaching an online class that some people lose all ability to empathize when they go online. Or, I don't know, maybe they don't have them to begin with. We were covering Oryx & Crake, a post-apocalyptic piece where one man, Jimmy, is left as the sole survivor of the human race. Obviously, he's depressed. Students would make comments like, "Why doesn't he just perk up? He should shave and bathe in the morning." And we read a book where a character was gang-raped and students commented that maybe she'd been dressed slutty or should have drank A beer.
Those aren't real people, of course, but I think people completely detach online. Also, nut cases love the platform where they can flaunt their goodness. I don't think this represents the people around you.
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sixby9is42
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"The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about (anything) and share pornography with one another."
"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously."
Assholes are everywhere.
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berdawn
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It seems counter-intuitive to me that being "connected" would make one less empathetic, but OK, I kinda get it. It just seems so, vulgar and gross and, I don't know, sad? Like we have this tool that lets me know when someone has unjustly imprisoned or has gotten asylum because of FGM but for apparently a LOT of other people, it's just a way to broadcast a way of thinking that _I_ thought was an anachronism.
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berdawn
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Manatee wrote >>
Or maybe... it's been shown that the world over, people invariably bitch about someone the second they leave the room. I guess, on the internet, we've all left the room. So we can all bitch about each other endlessly?yeah, the first one to leave the party is always a dick or a bitch.
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Walker
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Aren't newspapers written for a fourth-grade reading level?
It really shouldn't be too surprising then that a newspaper's comment section is filled with discussion at a fourth-grade level.
Personally, I try to avoid clicking on the comments on The Dispatch news. But the few occasions where I do just makes me love all of you CU regulars THAT much more. :D
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berdawn
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alexs wrote >>
Never criticize someone, until you have walked a mile in their shoes.
Because then, they are a mile away, AND you have their shoes.OK, that made my evening! I'm sure that the people who are writing the things that frighten me are simply satirists honing their craft for their day job at the Onion. (I'm also sure that I'm not likely to read the comments section anymore)
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alexs
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berdawn wrote >>
alexs wrote >>
Never criticize someone, until you have walked a mile in their shoes.
Because then, they are a mile away, AND you have their shoes.I'm sure that the people who are writing the things that frighten me are simply satirists honing their craft
Yeah, they're honing something.
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Core_Models
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Try to bear in mind that most of these people are posting this shit to accomplish two things:
1. get attention from anonymous strangers, even if it is negative, which is sad on so many levels I can't even count.
2. vent their frustrations at life in general, because they are two cowardly to vent it to people face to face.
They may have found a place to post their "voice", but as loud as it seems, just remember that it is the same dozen pinheads doing it...not some large segment of Columbus' population.
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lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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Walker wrote >>
Aren't newspapers written for a fourth-grade reading level?
It really shouldn't be too surprising then that a newspaper's comment section is filled with discussion at a fourth-grade level.
Personally, I try to avoid clicking on the comments on The Dispatch news. But the few occasions where I do just makes me love all of you CU regulars THAT much more. :DThe difference is largely the anonymity. If we didn't have those wonderful CU meet ups, I think you would see a lot more of it-as sad as that reality is.
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ChrisSunami
King-Lincoln District
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The difference is largely the anonymity. If we didn't have those wonderful CU meet ups, I think you would see a lot more of it-as sad as that reality is.
That makes sense, but I don't think that actually makes the difference. The rudest, cruelest forum I was ever on was one where 90% of the people knew each other in rl. Meanwhile, the most civil, thought-provoking forum I belong to is largely composed of people who are complete strangers to one another in real life.
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jpizzow
580 N. Park St.
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I really try to avoid clicking on the Comments sections because everytime I do, I get pissed to no end. I too find it cowardly that people have to hide behind an anonymous computer screen while spewing out comments for which they have absolutely no argument for. Their sole purpose is to piss people off. Plus, they can always dish it, but they can never take it.
I do, however, feel the need to make comments, if only to defend myself, when people start bashing issues like "keeping the Blue Jackets in town" (that one REALLY pissed me off) or especially anything about living downtown or urban development. I don't like the burbs. They don't make sense to me but I also don't go off on some rant calling the person a weirdo or an idiot for living where they do. I don't know, that's just one of many examples. I've just come to the conlusion that there must be some real idiots out there. It saddens me to know that people like this live in our city.
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CMH Gourmand
(King of) the (Clinton)ville
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When the Taco Trucks article was in the Dispatch a while back - I had the same reaction to the comments posted about truck owners and etc. on the Dispatch online version. "Who are these people and do they live in "my city". The answer is they do.
There is some CU stuff that imagine that the Dispatch comment makers would say the same - "who are these public transportation lovin', Dirty Franks eating, socialist elitists?" Many of us seem to live in the High Street strip from German Village to South Clintonville. Sometimes I have the sense that "our" city is not what we think it is.
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