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  • 01-12-2011 7:55pm
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    Fbjm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭


    Is it just me, or is there a whole different etiquette when it comes to chatrooms, as compared to real life?

    Comments I've often seen are 'I'd never speak like this in real life', I'd be a social outcast if I was like this all the time' etc, yet the people I enjoy talking to (as in those who are nice and polite, regardless whether they're in a chatroom or a sitting room) are constantly kicked, banned and blocked from the active groups.

    It seems to me that to get on in a chatroom, you have to be as sarcastic, pessimistic and 4chan-loving as possible.

    Is this just my personal experience, or is it just a fact of (virtual) life?
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    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Fbjm wrote: »
    Is it just me, or is there a whole different etiquette when it comes to chatrooms, as compared to real life?

    Comments I've often seen are 'I'd never speak like this in real life', I'd be a social outcast if I was like this all the time' etc, yet the people I enjoy talking to (as in those who are nice and polite, regardless whether they're in a chatroom or a sitting room) are constantly kicked, banned and blocked from the active groups.

    It seems to me that to get on in a chatroom, you have to be as sarcastic, pessimistic and 4chan-loving as possible.

    Is this just my personal experience, or is it just a fact of (virtual) life?

    correct


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    ASL?


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    --LOS--
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    I'll need to go back in time to answer that question


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    Ghost Train
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    It's just you


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    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=253


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    Spunge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    depends on what type of community it is.

    if you're going to video games chatrooms then probably, if you're going to knitting chatrooms ,probably not.


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    Desire2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Desire2


    Fbjm wrote: »
    Is it just me, or is there a whole different etiquette when it comes to chatrooms, as compared to real life?

    i have only ventured into chatrooms since about 2007,i found myself infracted etc and was left scratching my head as to why.
    one day when i was clearing out an attic i found a book that had come with Windows NT by Microsoft about Internet etiquette,twas then i discovered that typing in HIGHER case was considered shouting and all the other things that are considered 'wrong' on the net.
    it did not explain who decided the rules though.:confused:
    Comments I've often seen are 'I'd never speak like this in real life', I'd be a social outcast if I was like this all the time' etc, yet the people I enjoy talking to (as in those who are nice and polite, regardless whether they're in a chatroom or a sitting room) are constantly kicked, banned and blocked from the active groups.
    It seems to me that to get on in a chatroom, you have to be as sarcastic, pessimistic and 4chan-loving as possible.

    Might it be that many people put on a front in real life but their true nature they keep under an anonymous user name?
    Is this just my personal experience, or is it just a fact of (virtual) life?

    i find boards moderating a tad harsh at times but i was on an American political website that was unmoderated and to say the least it was not a pretty sight.
    Spunge wrote: »
    depends on what type of community it is.
    if you're going to knitting chatrooms ,probably not.

    :D


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    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    why don't we find out ?

    see me in chatroullette in say 10 minutes ??

    I'll be the one doing the helicopter


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    AnonoBoy
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    Chat rooms eh?


    A rose for all the fine ladies.
    @-->----
    Now PM me your pantie colours!


    That's what I remember from about 1999. Are they still populated by dickheads like that?


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    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat.


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    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat.

    I cast lvl 3 eroticism and lvl 8 cock of the infinite.

    Baby?


    Epic :D


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    Fbjm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Fbjm


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Chat rooms eh?


    A rose for all the fine ladies.
    @-->----
    Now PM me your pantie colours!


    That's what I remember from about 1999. Are they still populated by dickheads like that?

    I don't mean omegle and other random ones, I mean the ones that take commitment and form into a sort of virtual community :P The one I'm on about, I've been regularly active in since 2009 :o Like boards but instant :D


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