Comments on: The perils and pitfalls of moderating online comments http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/miscellaneous/the-perils-and-pitfalls-of-moderating-online-comments/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/miscellaneous/the-perils-and-pitfalls-of-moderating-online-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-7637 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:26:58 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=2520#comment-7637 I’ve encountered one or two people who claim that people online aren’t “real”, and are just constructed persona who have no emotional connection with the real people behind them. Therefore they can be insulted with impunity. This perhaps explains why people who can be quite personable face-to-face turn into malevolent trolls online.

I’ve also heard of studies that some people turn belligerent online in the same way as some people get violent when drunk – the lack of face to face contact relaxes the inhibitions that otherwise keep their behaviour civil.

]]> By: Mike S http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/miscellaneous/the-perils-and-pitfalls-of-moderating-online-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-7600 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:58:09 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=2520#comment-7600 It never fails to amaze me that seemingly innocuous comments will incite incredibly vicious verbal interchanges on on-line forums. I guess sitting in your pajamas at a computer where you can hide behind a screen name somehow releases the savagery inside some people.

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