Why are people jerks?

[Cero]

@matanui159

He just fell in to ‘being famous’ so fast that when he hit the bottom he exploded into a million little pieces…
When people get mean to you, you start to feel down… When you feel down you get a bad attitude…
No-one really cared how he was feeling… They where just feeding the beast…

Everyone should simply know, talking on the internet, on twitter and cons is not talking to your private friends, its an open ‘press’ release, its a marketing / PR job
as the audience gets bigger, the criticism gets rougher and its morel likely to have more super jerks in there
and fish was never shy about his outbursts

There was this PR manager for the new mighty number 9 kickstarter project (megaman) who said, on twitter, she never played the megaman games and only got this job because of her boyfriend.
she deleted that tweet later.
a month later a press release on their website appears where she formally introduces herself and claims that MegamanX is her favorite compared to the others because of some reasons.
How can imagine what happened.

JGO is here and its forum posts are easily found via google searches.
If any of you get famous enough and say something radical, and people find out there is a backlog of forum posts on here, they will traverse them all and expose you, if possible.

[Roquen]

@theagentd

@Roquen

“Exactly. The bitch deserved to get raped. Did you see how she was dressed? I saw her drink at least one glass of alcohol. And the way she was dancing? The cunt deserved it.”

Something like that?

We keep saying that, but at the same time we all lock our doors, we have expensive alarm systems, we use anti-virus software, we hire bodyguards, we have anti-cheat software for our games… If you forget to lock your door and your house gets emptied by a robber, it’s obviously not your fault, but that doesn’t mean that you couldn’t have done anything to prevent it. There are lots of things that we shouldn’t have to do, but if we don’t some people will take advantage of us.

Preventive measures is a different topic. And frankly virtually all of them only give you an illusion of added security. Oh and for people having a bad “connect-the-dots” day my rape example is to highlight the “blame the victim” mentality. We all do that in our heads at times. And the reason most of us do so is because it subconsciously makes us feel safer for ourselves and people we know. We wouldn’t have done that so bad things wouldn’t happen to us.

So sticking with my rape example…what exact meaningful preventive measure can a woman take? Answer none. Like murders the vast majority of rapes are by persons known. Back on the generalized version of the topic of this thread…what preventive measure can you take if your opinion might anger others? Say nothing? f**k that…the world sucks enough, imagine how much worse it would be if nobody ever spoke out about anything.

@Cero: I don’t understand anything your saying…are you sure you’re in the right thread.

[basil]

[quote=“Cero,post:41,topic:50861”]
nah, just create another account and pay the ops to shut up about the IP.

[Grunnt]

Also, I was thinking of this XKCD when reading this topic:

I must admit I have been an asshole on the internet plenty of times because of this. But fortunately I grow a little bit wiser over time…

[matanui159]

@Grunnt

Also, I was thinking of this XKCD when reading this topic:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png

I must admit I have been an asshole on the internet plenty of times because of this. But fortunately I grow a little bit wiser over time…

XKCD!!!
I love that comic!!!

[Cero]

@Roquen

@Cero: I don’t understand anything your saying…are you sure you’re in the right thread.

Ok let me make it simple for you.
If a lot of people on the internet know you, many of those people will be jerks, mathematically. If then you say the wrong things you may generate some hate. And those jerks excel at showing it.

As the sample size gets bigger, there are more extreme people.

[Roquen]

All of that is a given. My point is that it’s unacceptable for people to move from being hostile jerks to criminal attacks. As a society we must condemn criminal attacks even if we disagree, even strongly, with the attacked assuming the attacked is engaged in legal activity.

[Drenius]

To repeat my point: Agression on the internet survives from getting attention and more agression. If you don’t like it at any point, just get out, nobody will notice, noboy will feel offended again.

EDIT: And if it is pointed at you, people will see it is spam, and will agree with you in case you ignore it.
EDIT2: Not everybody, but the average person.

[Roquen]

Again. Reasonable thinking in the common case which has nothing to do with the points of this topic. These suggestions are a non-option.

[Andre_Lopes]

@Drenius

To repeat my point: Agression on the internet survives from getting attention and more agression. If you don’t like it at any point, just get out, nobody will notice, noboy will feel offended again.

EDIT: And if it is pointed at you, people will see it is spam, and will agree with you in case you ignore it.
EDIT2: Not everybody, but the average person.

Or you can insult them back and end like phil?
Huh, you got a point there.

[HeroesGraveDev]

It’s easy to be angry at someone who is aggressive.
It’s possible to be angry at someone who ignores you.
It’s hard to be angry at someone who is being kind to you.

[Andre_Lopes]

@HeroesGraveDev

It’s easy to be angry at someone who is aggressive.
It’s possible to be angry at someone who ignores you.
It’s hard to be angry at someone who is being kind to you.

I agree but,
Thats what a normal person thinks.

Heres what a troll thinks :

TROLL!

They dont care, they just troll.No matter what.

[Opiop]

@Andre_Lopes

@HeroesGraveDev

It’s easy to be angry at someone who is aggressive.
It’s possible to be angry at someone who ignores you.
It’s hard to be angry at someone who is being kind to you.

I agree but,
Thats what a normal person thinks.

Heres what a troll thinks :

TROLL!

They dont care, they just troll.No matter what.

“Trolls” are normal people just like everyone else. They don’t constantly think about annoying people, they love and feel the same emotions “normal” people do. I don’t understand why you think that just because people sometimes “troll” they are automatically abnormal and think differently than “normal” people do.

[Andre_Lopes]

@opiop65

@Andre_Lopes

@HeroesGraveDev

It’s easy to be angry at someone who is aggressive.
It’s possible to be angry at someone who ignores you.
It’s hard to be angry at someone who is being kind to you.

I agree but,
Thats what a normal person thinks.

Heres what a troll thinks :

TROLL!

They dont care, they just troll.No matter what.

“Trolls” are normal people just like everyone else. They don’t constantly think about annoying people, they love and feel the same emotions “normal” people do. I don’t understand why you think that just because people sometimes “troll” they are automatically abnormal and think differently than “normal” people do.

I refuse to start an argument with you Opiop

I think you are the nicest person ever.

[Opiop]

I’m… Not arguing with you just because I disagree with your statement.

[ra4king]

@princec

…a 6ft 14 stone hairy arsed biker…

… are you me? :persecutioncomplex:

[princec]

I’m your sexier more awesome long-lost twin :-*

Cas

[matanui159]

I thought about this a lot (cause I like thinking about stuff in my spare time):

Hitler is a bad person…
An a-hole is a part of the backside…
Everyone is more than a-hole, they have ears and emotions…
Stop calling people a-holes and the world would be fixed…

[Andre_Lopes]

I am staying out of this one

[ra4king]

@princec

I’m your sexier more awesome long-lost twin :-*

Cas

Hah, you wish… :point: