The psychology of the Soapbox

Josh Smith

Member 96

I saw that! :) Speaking of stuff on the NYT, does the Reader team read the feedback we send in when we click that little feedback thingie in the corner?

Diego Moita

Flaming has a technical name, the “online disinhibition effect,” which psychologists apply to the many ways people behave with less restraint in cyberspace. Is it always a bad thing? :->

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
GK Chesterton

Josh Smith

John Cardinal wrote:

does the Reader team read the feedback we send in when we click that little feedback thingie in the corner?

Yes, every single one. I think that eventually someone replies to each one, too. I've read yours. :)

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Member 96

Just curious, thanks.

code frog 0

Is akin to pigs on a feeding frenzy. :suss:

Jim Crafton

I must be suffering from mild dyslexia today, while reading your link I saw the links to other stories on the right and thought one was titled "Grandchild of Italy Craps Spaghetti Code"* :) That forced me to do a double take! * Actual title was "A Grandchild of Italy Cracks the Spaghetti Code".

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Lost User

An insult to pigs?

The tigress is here :-D

Josh Smith

Jim Crafton wrote:

Grandchild of Italy Craps Spaghetti Code

That sounds like the name of a poem I wrote...

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Jim Crafton

Was that "An Ode to Runny Bits, or Why You Gave Me the Quantum Shits"? I read that last night at a Burger King bathroom. I wondered if they had the correct attribution, apparently they did (they screwed up your phone number, you might want to correct that)!

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Josh Smith

Jim Crafton wrote:

Why You Gave Me the Quantum Shits

That's the one.

Jim Crafton wrote:

they screwed up your phone number, you might want to correct that

It wasn't 1900-FREE-LUV? Hmm...that's odd. :rolleyes:

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Paul Watson

I haven't read it yet but you are wrong anyway.

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Shog9 wrote:

And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

PhilLenoir

Josh Smith wrote:

That sounds like the name of a poem I wrote...

Are you Vogon by any chance?

Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

cjbauman

"Dr. Suler notes that disinhibition can be either benign — when a shy person feels free to open up online — or toxic, as in flaming."

nilotic

OILY FISH calmed down London cabbies on TV (must be true!) Maybe this could also help flamers, I dunno. Perhaps an emoticon of a greasy sardine to respond with? Or fight fire with fire- get Charlie Brooker to 'shame the flame'... I've never got over his descriptions of Michael Parkinson & Alan Titchmarsh. 'a face like a corpses shoe' & 'so ugly he could scare the knots off the trees'..... In this age of PC'ness, flaming needs a champion.

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