{"id":98,"date":"2003-04-24T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T19:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=98"},"modified":"2003-04-24T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T19:39:52","slug":"web-skirmishes-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/web-skirmishes-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Skirmishes 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this day and age of worldwide dektop publishing, various temperaments, political views, and viewpoints&#8230; I find you can just about offend ANYONE with a minimum of effort. What causes flame wars on the web? What makes them worse? What is the best way to resolve them? I offer my 2\u00a2 on the matter as somewhat of an &#8220;expert&#8221; in online warfare. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a more homogenized version of a post I made on WHUZZUP, as apparently a lot of people missed the point the first time around. The ceilings are pretty low in SoApBox&#8230; so those coming in riding your high horses may experience neck and back problems later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>As I planned to resurrect this site over the summer, I VOWED that this kind of stuff was not going to happen here anymore.<\/b><br \/>\nI wanted to come back and be a POSITIVE force in the community.  At a time where people are being polarized and torn apart over a war that affected the entire planet&#8230; I wanted to help bring the web community back together, torn apart from all the debate and harsh words, and I wanted to work with the same people with the same mindset.<\/p>\n<p><b>Consider me somewhat of an &#8220;expert&#8221; on flame wars&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\nHere are your common elements of a flame war (see if this looks familiar in over a thousand different Web Dramas.)<\/p>\n<li>Someone says something.<\/li>\n<li>Someone takes offense and goes public<\/li>\n<li>Everyone takes sides (because, well, it&#8217;s a public issue now, right?)<\/li>\n<li>Everyone loses their temper, they do and say stuff they regret later&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>NO ONE wants to admit any wrongdoing directly (&#8220;I know what I said\/did was wrong&#8230; BUT he\/she didn&#8217;t have to&#8230;&#8221;).  <\/li>\n<li>The real issue gets buried, as everyone spends hours trying to convince the spectators that, in reality, they are actually good people deep down inside (and they are.)&#8230; but their opponent will eat your children if you turn your back on them.  <\/li>\n<p><b>POP QUIZ:<\/b> (This is based on&#8230;)<\/p>\n<form><input type=\"radio\" name=\"war\" value=\"\">The Blogshares War<\/p>\n<p><input type=\"radio\" name=\"war\" value=\"\">The Summer-Free-For-All<br \/>\n<input type=\"radio\" name=\"war\" value=\"\">The Hoopty Debacle<br \/>\n<input type=\"radio\" name=\"war\" value=\"\">The Little Green Racists Controversy<br \/>\n<input type=\"radio\" name=\"war\" value=\"\">The CDs=The Holocaust Debate<br \/>\n<input type=\"radio\" name=\"war\" value=\"\">My Feud with Joe Jenett<br \/>\n<input type=\"radio\" name=\"war\" value=\"\">My Feud with Faith and the Digital Divas<br \/>\n<input type=\"radio\" name=\"war\" value=\"\">ALL OF THE ABOVE<\/form>\n<p>It&#8217;s counterproductive, petty, childish, bullshit.<br \/>\nAnd Gawd&#8230; I am so FUCKING TIRED of it.<\/p>\n<p>I guess a guy&#8217;s got to grow up sometime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this day and age of worldwide dektop publishing, various temperaments, political views, and viewpoints&#8230; I find you can just about offen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-skewl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Web Skirmishes 101 - SoApBoX<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/web-skirmishes-101\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Web Skirmishes 101 - SoApBoX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this day and age of worldwide dektop publishing, various temperaments, political views, and viewpoints... 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