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The virtual world has warped the way we work and interact with each other. People are willing to type and text things that they do not mean and would never say to someone’s face. Most message boards and online games are flooded with personal attacks, profanity and generally offensive remarks. In many ways, a person would probably find more wholesome conversation sitting in a bar full of drunks than reading what people have the courage to say in the unknown faceless cyber world. /Derrick Skaug, WSU Daily Evergreen. More here.
Question: Is Huckleberries Online moderated well enough that you feel safe coming here to give your opinions, despite the anonymity of most contributors?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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toadman on February 27 at 9:37 a.m.
Yes. For the most part.
Also, I think Derrick is missing a crucial point. The point that if one is willing to talk in the cyber-world one way, and another way in the real-world, says alot about how people really are. People DO generally hide their true feelings in the real world, but are more themselves in the cyber-world…what does THAT say about society? Here’s what it tells me: That there are a lot more angry paranoid socio-paths in the world, than I’m really comfortable with.
JeanieSpokane on February 27 at 10:15 a.m.
Yes, to your question.
And I agree with Toadman to a point. Maybe I am not an average cyber-person. This is me, not someone I am pretending to be. And this is my polite me - the angry screaming Jeanie, I leave in the car. She is definitely psycho.
Escapee on February 27 at 6:11 p.m.
Huckleberries is a comfortable place to be, although sometimes promising threads can degenerate into endless innuendo among some posters…the interaction here can be a lot of fun, sometimes. Long live HBO.
Stickman on February 27 at 7:18 p.m.
Of course, what are we hiding from as it is. Come tomorrow and all will be revealed. Or not.