I chose the forums of Heat magazine.
The title of this thread is 'When did Heat get so awful?'
The link is http://www.heatworld.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=196475
The person who posted it has only posted 2 posts and therefore is a reasonably new forum user (well on this website anyway). She speaks in points and therefore isn't really how you would speak in real life. The very 1st prely is a form of flaming in a way as she is rather rude! this girl, who its says has posted a lot on heatworld simply replies with 'er 4 words stop buyin it duh!'.
The girls then post a few bitchy comments aimed at eachother. I think that this shows online interaction decreases respect for eachother. For example, you wouldn't speak to some1 in this way in real life if u had met them, but online there are no implications and therefore people don't really care. I don't think this is right, everyone is entitled to their opinion and it should be respected by others. Forums are not thee to slag everyone and their opinions off but to discuss and try to understand other points of view.
In this particular blog people seem to be getting extremely exasperated with eachother and does that therefore suggest that opinions are not portrayed accurately on line? And is it only possible to understand/accept what some1 is saying when it is in face to face context, or at least via telephone when a voice can be heard?
I think that at the end of the day, if people feel strongly enough about a topic to want to discuss it on a public forum with strangers, all users must be prepared to take on eachother's points of view and try to broaden their opinions or try to udnerstand others.
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Alyson,
Well done for including the hyperlink, so readers of this blog can go directly to the forum that you discuss. I think you raise some valid points about the forums anonymity allowing for rudeness. There does seem to be something to be said for face to face interaction, voice-tone and body language as all central to successful communication. Perhaps with forums there should always be ground rules, and a person monitoring the comments to ensure there are no offensive comments.
All the best
Emma
yes, I agree and since doing my website analysis, I found like on the Sky News website (http://news.sky.com/skynews/home) there is a page with House Rules and this states that there is a moderator who will not allow offensive comments & has the right to refuse posts for any reason. I think this is a really good idea and the threat of that would stop people from doing it so much. For example, on Sky News they probably wouldn't even try as they know there's not point whereas in chat rooms, etc people probably just do it simply becuase they know they can get away with it.
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