Anonymous Anger Rampant On the Web 399
the4thdimension writes "In a story that may bring out the 'duh' in you, CNN has a story about how anonymous anger is rampant on the Internet. Citing various reasons, it attempts to explain why sites like MyBiggestComplaint and Just Rage exist and why anger via the web seems to be everywhere. Various reasons include: anonymity, lack of rules, and lack of immediate consequences. Whatever the reason, they describe that online anger has resulted in real-life violence and suggest methods for parents and teens to cope with e-aggression and to learn to be aware of it." I can't figure out what makes me angrier: my habit of anonymously trolling web forums, or my video game playing.
Let Me Offer a Lemma on This Subject ... (Score:5, Funny)
Not news (Score:5, Funny)
I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:5, Funny)
It distracts from pseudonymous anger, and that makes me mad.
Stupid crap story (Score:4, Funny)
on a stupid crap website.
Slashdot sucks, Digg's much better :)
Re:Stupid crap story (Score:5, Funny)
shit, I forgot to click Post Anonymously.
Oh the irony :(
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (Score:5, Funny)
Nice job asshole, somebody already posted that fucking link.
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:5, Funny)
"I am angry at the parade I saw coming through the window!"
Re:Complaining about being anonymous is ad hominem (Score:3, Funny)
I totally agree with you, although I realize that does not amount to a hill of dogshit.
When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor (Score:5, Funny)
I agree. What this calls for is a really stupid and futile gesture on somebody's part.
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:4, Funny)
E-aggression? (Score:5, Funny)
WTF? Do we need to put an E (or I) in front of every-bloody-thing that might occur online? I mean really? There is no difference between 'aggression' and 'e-aggression' except for where it happens. I mean, if I get pissed off about something in the loo, is that 'P-aggression'? Or if I'm pissed at a strip club is that 'DD-aggression'?
I mean, can't you n00bs stop that crap?
Re:one thing that can be done about it (Score:5, Funny)
The correct term is "caucasian". "European American" or even "white person" are acceptable alternatives.
Re:Tolling has been around for ages, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Most people in America are angrier than usual due to the worsening economic conditions caused by Bush's oil war which bankrupted the nation. That's what's really being reflected on the web. Bush and Cheney are basically war criminials. I'm hoping people take it their rage at the voting booths.
Oooh, mad libs!
Most people in America are sillier than usual due to the diabetes caused by Bush's evil, putrid, orphan-exploiting existence which caffeinated the nation. That's what's really being monkeyed on the web. Bush and Cheney are basically evil, putrid, orphan-exploiters. I'm hoping people take it their rage at the carnival.
But, I think my version made more sense.
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:4, Funny)
Time to get angry at myself...
Re:Stupid crap story (Score:2, Funny)
If it makes you feel any better, I'd be really anonymously pissed off if my name was Rik Sweeney too. If you get married, take your wife's name. Try to look for a woman named Powers. Yeah. Rik Powers. That'd be cool.
Re:Stupid crap story (Score:5, Funny)
Rik Powers? No way.
Marry Michelle Rohl [wikipedia.org].
Rik Rohl would be awesome.
Re:Sad Really (Score:5, Funny)
So what I'm saying is that rampant nerd rage is a good thing because people get stuff off their chest...
Plus it gives you 10 strength and 50% damage resistance if your health drops below 20%.
Re:one thing that can be done about it (Score:1, Funny)
Can you turn it into a verb [wikipedia.org]?
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:5, Funny)
I was very angry at you last week.
That was asynchronous anger.
Re:Let Me Offer a Lemma on This Subject ... (Score:1, Funny)
and the horse you rode in on!
Re:Tolling has been around for ages, but... (Score:3, Funny)
But, I think my version made more sense.
I don't know if it made more sense, but I think it would make a better movie.
Re:Positive thing (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe it has to do with the fact that there might be people agreeing with you. If you're pissed off about something and speak about it openly, you might get feedback from other people with similar feeling and while that MIGHT also leed to you getting more aggressive with the positive feedback, it might also show you that you're not ALONE in being pissed off, which is a very positive and anger-releasing feeling.
On the other hand, however, "positive feedback" does not describe the internet by any stretch of the imagination.
Re:Let Me Offer a Lemma on This Subject ... (Score:2, Funny)
For the meta mods:
I modded this post redundant as it is a poor copy of a joke made by Taco in the summary.
Re:G.I.F.T. (Score:4, Funny)
Is there a greater oxymoron in the english language than Windows Genuine Advantage?
Yes. Microsoft Works.
Re:Not news (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:5, Funny)
Asynchronous anger is something different altogether, although I think you have to be married to experience.
Your spouse is always angry about something you did in the past or are about to do in the future. Theoretically they can be mad at you for what you are doing right now, but I think in practice there isn't enough room for that, so it gets shoved into some kind of complex priority queue.
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:1, Funny)
Erogenous anger for me please. Now whip it!
Re:Positive thing (Score:5, Funny)
you also have an annoying habit of making passive aggressive comments ;)
Re:Road Rage (Score:2, Funny)
You would never run down the hallway at work, while on your cell phone, yelling at all the other people who are not full out sprinting.
Where do you work? It sounds like a nice place...
Re:Let Me Offer a Lemma on This Subject ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:4, Funny)
You also have the most strange type of anger where your wife is fuming at you for days due to something you did or didn't do in one of her dreams. That just weirds me out.
Re:Positive thing (Score:3, Funny)
I tried that. I started by thinking "oranges are orange", but then that led to the question "why apples aren't apple", and from there I went to "why are there two ways to spell 'grey' (gray) that are both colors, but two ways to spell 'red' (read) and only one of them is?" and that made me really mad.
And THEN I thought about the guy who created the word "orange" specifically so you couldn't write a poem about oranges and THAT pushed me over the edge.
Re:I'm against anonymous anger. (Score:5, Funny)
seriously wtf is with that! girls suck!
Ah. An optimist.
Re:Let Me Offer a Lemma on This Subject ... (Score:1, Funny)
For the meta mods:
I modded this post redundant because in general I like to be an asshole, especially on the internet, and especially when i get to do it anonymously.
(seriously i did, check the moderation, and then GO FUCK YOURSELF)
"I Accept" (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps all this a nonny mouse anger arises from the mile long EULAs that we are supposed to read (but don't) ((because we'd start rioting if we were forced to)).
At the end of these sublimely irritating EULA's is an "I Accept" button.
However, nobody, but nobody, clicks on an "I Accept" button thinking "I truly accept, understand and welcome these words of wisdom which in exchange for a paltry sum of money, have made my life much better".
Universally, on clicking on "I Accept" around the 'net the one silent, but LOUD thought occurs, which is, as the parent so aptly expressed, "FUCK YOU!"
Re:Positive thing (Score:3, Funny)
The orange, the orange, a non-musical fruit,
Eat all you want, there will be no toot.
Drunk raw from the glass at each breakfast meal,
Not good with the cookies but great with some veal.
Add it to vodka and have a screwdriver,
A drink that will cost you more than a fiver.
But don't try to rhyme the name of the orange
'cause it will make your poem sound really odd and ruin the entire effect.