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Originally Posted by agzg
I wouldn't go so far as to say "Oh I knew you would disagree with me" or "Oh I knew that most of the people on here would attack me..." More along the lines of I know that if I confront someone in a certain way it's going to "ruffle their feathers" - at least as much as one can be ruffled from interweb conversations. You can have the feeling that "oh this isn't going to end well with [poster]" - most people would adjust the wording on that particular post. DI just rolls that "I told you so" implication into her insults.
I also don't transfer that to real life. I'm sure if people that post here knew me IRL they'd find me to be a very different person.
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There's no one here that I'd be motivate to find in real life the way creepy people have done in the past, but if I met the people behind the usernames here, for the most part, I'd be more disposed to like them in real life than if I hadn't read their ideas here. There are a handful of people who'd be starting off behind, and another handful who especially intrigue me about what they are like in real life but it's not positive or negative.
(Weirdly, though, I don't think I'd ever go to a real life GC event if there were one. I've met one person in real life from the site and that went really well, but the idea of it just seems like the most awkward thing ever.)
I do think that we share enough of our political and social biases that if you are a regular and long-term user you really can often guess what other users' responses are going to be or at least be like.
It pretty much invariably will make someone mad to say so, but honestly, how often, when you recognize the username, are you surprised by the content of a post?
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