Social experiment I did.

Neapolitan · 04-25-2013, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by scleaves

I was doing a paper on how people are treated on online forums. I said that people are often treated by the reputation they have built and not by what they write immediately. To test this, me and a buddy swapped accounts on a forum with relaxed rules and didn't pretend to be each other necessarily but didn't tell anyone and just posted as we normally did. People on this online community seemed to like my buddy better,

When did the people on this online community seemed to like your friend better when he was himself or when he was perpetrating himself as you? If it was the latter were you just a tiny bit jealous watching them like you better when you weren't yourself but when your friend was you?

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Originally Posted by scleaves

and this was evident that when I tried to strike a conversation up with people, I was called nice terms and people genuinely wanted to help me out, while when I was using my own account, people usually just called me names. But I was posting as I normally did. With that said, I do not recommend such a practice or experiment to people. We knew that it wouldn't harm anything before we overtook it, and we didn't keep it up for long.

So why were these peoples heaving names at you? Was it because of the reputation your friend built for you when you weren't yourself?

scleaves · 04-26-2013, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

When did the people on this online community seemed to like your friend better when he was himself or when he was perpetrating himself as you? If it was the latter were you just a tiny bit jealous watching them like you better when you weren't yourself but when your friend was you?

They liked my friend better when he was himself. When I was using my friend's account and posting as I normally do, they treated me better than if I was using my own account.

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So why were these peoples heaving names at you? Was it because of the reputation your friend built for you when you weren't yourself?

They called me names because of the reputation that I apparently built for myself, and they did it when I was using my own account.

Neapolitan · 04-26-2013, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by scleaves

They called me names because of the reputation that I apparently built for myself, and they did it when I was using my own account.

I recall from another thread you adopted some of your friend's attitudes towards life. Was this reputation built upon you being too blunt? Or was it for other reasons than than that like you saw things and expressed them differently, or you somehow didn't mesh well with certain people on that other forum?

scleaves · 04-26-2013, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I recall from another thread you adopted some of your friend's attitudes towards life. Was this reputation built upon you being too blunt? Or was it for other reasons than than that like you saw things and expressed them differently, or you somehow didn't mesh well with certain people on that other forum?

This was actually before the guy I wanted to be like, or at least before I tried to adopt his ways. Part of it seemed to be that the community could be really tough on some people, and part of it might have been that I was more of an emo at the time and he was more of a metalhead, the badarse kind. People might have been afraid of him and more inclined to pick on me. Still though, people had a real respect for who they thought was him and wanted to try to help him out at every turn, while they just gave me garbage.