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Aside from our pet Doompatrol, have you ever got into a real ruckus with anyone on the net?

― DG, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I are currently fighting with a fat-headed BNP-supporting beer boy from my old school, and winning as far as I can tell. But how about YOU?

― DG, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes I have. It was too ugly to recount and taught me to a. never take anything or anyone online very seriously and b. limit personal info about myself shared in these places. So there.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

somebody called me a punk once, but I'm proud of that fact.

― Hank, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My real life fight with Wheeler spilled into internet posts and caused the creation of this here board because we took over every single ILM thread calling each other nasty names - but I don't think it counts cos it's a real life fight that spilled into all other aspects of the universe and consumed all, etc. I've gotten into loads of online fights though, it's just that I don't take them seriously personally so I never consider them "fighting" the way I did the one I mentioned because it's someone I don't know and don't care to know and don't want to be friends with in every other case - I mean, who cares?

― Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine was theoretically a real-life fight as well. Started with an Internet friend turned RL friend. But it spilled over into the online world and contimated everything it touched.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I let it go. There were instances here where I shouldn't have let it go, but I did. But that was a while back...I like to argue when I know how people will react i.e not hurt. God, I'm far too sensitive...

― james, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah yes. Kat Marco, where are you now?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I've ever fought, but as Ally or Pinefox or several other can attest, I do have a bad habit of clinging tenaciously to a particular argument and defending it until everyone else has given up on the thread. But I only do this when I'm really, really sure I'm right. (Althought that doesn't necessarily mean I am right, I suppose.) This once forced me to abandon the mailing list for a band who made an awful stinker of a record: I think I spent something like three months arguing the "this record sucks" case until everyone on the list started hating me. But hey, the album was really bad.

Closest to a non-ideological spat I've ever come was with that At the Drive-In fan on ILM. So ... a pretty tame existence.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, I gotta know: what was the album in question, Nitsuh?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

See, the thing with internet fights is that I'm generally the exact opposite of real life fights on here: in real life, I have to fight til the bloody death. Online, I get bored and just stop reading the messages.

― Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's people that think they must fight to the bloody death in the real world that have made fighting such a dangerous hobby... Killing your opponent is usually totally unnecessary.

That being said, I used to enjoy going into chat rooms and making a couple people really hate me, and then talking those people down until they thought I was neat and wanted to be my friend.

― Cryosmurf, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, Mitch, let me point out first that I joined this particular mailing list when I was all of 16, and stayed there only because (a) it was the first mailing list I'd ever joined, (b) I'd gotten to like some of the folks on it, (c) the band in question wasn't releasing any new material, delaying my inevitable "wait, this actually sucks" reaction, and (d) it just seemed like too much trouble to unsubscribe.

That said, it was the Sundays mailing list, and the record was their last one, which I must admit I didn't expect to be any good in the first place.

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I haven't. I've gotten into fake ruckuses, though.

― Maria, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel sad almost admitting it but I took the piss out of countless people on Yahoos music rooms for a long time. They all appeared to be very irritated with me, and that only encouaraged me. You know when people start making ids based on your one except with "I HATE" preceding it you're doing something right. That's why I find the doompatrol thing quite funny.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have, with DG...that devil!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Static & Silence is only 'really bad' compared to Reading, Writing & Arithmetic. It is not that bad by other people's standards.

Yes, every day brings a row. I'm sure you've noticed.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't they funny, internet rows? I have had quite a few (ahum) discussions. Still I try to kiss and make up. Kiss the screen and hug your mouse.Then email the person.

― Helen Fordsdale, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to post regularly on British political newsgroups where a depressingly large percentage of contributors are knuckle-dragging racists. Initially this lead to furious rows, but its difficult to even have a good argument with someone is primarily interested in dishing out crude invective. Soon developed a large kill-file and only argued with those worth the effort.

― stevo, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i picked a fight with ally's ass when new to ilm - the ass won, of course.

― Geoff, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't even remember that, just goes to show that my ass has a mind of its own.

― Ally, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I spent some time at alt.abortion when I was feeling really angsty. We had HUGE arguements there but it was all meaningless because issues such as abortion are the ones where you are not going to change other people's point of view merely through arguing.

alt.usage.english and alt.english.usage can be fun too. I spent a couple of months trying to argue that a lot should be one word. They got really riled! Once again, I do not know what I was trying to achieve there.

― toraneko, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

where's the best place for a good argument then? i've got the URGE!

― curious oranj, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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