DOS622
Well-Known Member
It looks like all the discussion in the Minecraft Survival forums has turned from the new changes to just arguing and trolling.
Stratadon said:
That's the real world, where people know your real name and can shoot you in the real face with a real gun. Why bother treating people with respect here on the Internet where there's no risk, no accountability?
Of course, I do treat people with respect online anyway, and don't troll (or is this post trolling?). I suppose it's some silly concern for people's feelings, as if there are any feelings on the Internet! No, as suggested by a few people, one ought to have a thick skin.
Diemundz said (in an edited version of his first post on that thread):
I think that's blowing things out of proportion a bit. So long as you don't mention in your resume/CV that you played Minecraft using the pseudonym "Diemundz", how are potential employers going to know anything about your behaviour on these forums? No, they're not going to know anything about it, so everyone can just go ahead and keep behaving the way they are.
Although it seems to me to be the right thing to do, I can't think of a convincing reason for behaving respectfully that I could give to others. Is there one?
Stratadon said:
I just moved into a college dorm with two new roommates. I went out of my way to not disrupt their current living style, and while falling asleep the first night, I overheard one of my roommates say to the other, "wow he is so easy to live with. I am in love with our new roommate already." These are simple lessons for navigating life. Far too many people in the world have forgotten how to be polite and suck it up. [...]
That's the real world, where people know your real name and can shoot you in the real face with a real gun. Why bother treating people with respect here on the Internet where there's no risk, no accountability?
Of course, I do treat people with respect online anyway, and don't troll (or is this post trolling?). I suppose it's some silly concern for people's feelings, as if there are any feelings on the Internet! No, as suggested by a few people, one ought to have a thick skin.
Diemundz said (in an edited version of his first post on that thread):
[...] I have about 65 posts at the time of writing this, and I have deleted all of them but people are still posting mean s*** about me behind my back. If I am able to at least keep my good reputation even though all these d***hordes are ruining it with their incessant, irritating cyberbullying, I will probably get a good job when I get older, but if not, then I say f*** you all.
I think that's blowing things out of proportion a bit. So long as you don't mention in your resume/CV that you played Minecraft using the pseudonym "Diemundz", how are potential employers going to know anything about your behaviour on these forums? No, they're not going to know anything about it, so everyone can just go ahead and keep behaving the way they are.
Although it seems to me to be the right thing to do, I can't think of a convincing reason for behaving respectfully that I could give to others. Is there one?