Apr 12, 2018, 6:30 PM

@arkandel said in Real life versus online behaviors:

I hate it because it implies some people are only civil normally for fear of retaliation, which is a dumbass reason to act as a mature adult should.

But that's just human nature. As @Three-Eyed-Crow pointed out earlier, a TON of humans will act to whatever extent they think they can get away with. In regular society there are boundaries - social norms - that are not really "enforced" but have power because people care about the consequences. Peers thinking less of them, social ostracizing, etc. Those boundaries don't naturally exist online, so online communities have to create them. Without them, well... :points to hog pit, or Reddit, or Facebook, or....: