zatovisualworks
Veteran but blossoming
Hi, guys.
The Internet and the discussion forum systems are great to exchange ideas, opinions and even different cultural points of view. That's the theory.
But practice proves different. Speaking from my own forum admin experience, masked under the anonymity shadow, some people think that everything is (and can be) allowed on forums, even abusing, insulting, mocking or despising (or even questioning someone's professional skill). I've been through all of that patiently until my legitimate pride and anger exploded. And the serious self-explaining side of it is that they wouldn't even dare to tell you the same if being in front of you. Dark cowardly anonymity is intrepid, too intrepid.
If you take any legitimate countermeasure, you are labelled to be a censor, a dictator and insulting increases up to legal and police attention levels.
And the cruelty of this is that you are being insulted at home, your own forum, most of times funded by you. Hospitality is great, self-stupidity isn't.
Since a long time ago, I have learnt from practice that one mustn't confuse freedom of speech with freedom of (trying) to smash others from the dark cowardly distance of the Internet System. If someone wants to do so, please, come closer and let's discuss it at my response reach. Maybe words would be hypocritically different.
My respect and understanding to all people who has been insulted on forums. I know how they feel.
The countermeasuring side of Alberte :wave:
The Internet and the discussion forum systems are great to exchange ideas, opinions and even different cultural points of view. That's the theory.
But practice proves different. Speaking from my own forum admin experience, masked under the anonymity shadow, some people think that everything is (and can be) allowed on forums, even abusing, insulting, mocking or despising (or even questioning someone's professional skill). I've been through all of that patiently until my legitimate pride and anger exploded. And the serious self-explaining side of it is that they wouldn't even dare to tell you the same if being in front of you. Dark cowardly anonymity is intrepid, too intrepid.
If you take any legitimate countermeasure, you are labelled to be a censor, a dictator and insulting increases up to legal and police attention levels.
And the cruelty of this is that you are being insulted at home, your own forum, most of times funded by you. Hospitality is great, self-stupidity isn't. Since a long time ago, I have learnt from practice that one mustn't confuse freedom of speech with freedom of (trying) to smash others from the dark cowardly distance of the Internet System. If someone wants to do so, please, come closer and let's discuss it at my response reach. Maybe words would be hypocritically different.
My respect and understanding to all people who has been insulted on forums. I know how they feel.
The countermeasuring side of Alberte :wave:
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