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Edited on Thu Feb-17-05 02:42 PM by TrogL
Something interesting is happening on another board. Yesterday there was an outbreak of {{{hugging}}} and some people got offended and the moderators had to step in. Now a flame war has broken out. (No, I won't identify the board - it's irrelevant to this discussion).
It's a very wierd concept, at least IMHO.
I wasn't involved in that particular set of threads (I was causing my own havoc on an unrelated topic) but personally I find {huggling} uncomfortable, but I'm an Aspie and find hugs IRL uncomfortable even at the best of times and that tends to carry over into the net.
The ironic (and probably hypocritical) part is that in chat sessions, I tend to behave as if I'm inside a CounterStrike game and "shotgun" people (or more often random objects) just for the hell of it. However, inside CounterStrike, I tend not to think of the opposing team as 'enemies', just 'the other side' of a group of friends (I'm not a clan member), especially because next map they're liable to be 'friends'. I've rarely seen any malicious gun/knife/whatever play unless a RL problem carried over into the net.
Be that as it may, it may have jaded me to gun play inside chat rooms and I may startle or even offend others not realizing it. Not everybody is a gamer.
I'm sure some shrink would have a field day with this.
What's your take on it?
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