Online disagreements flare up because you can't see faces
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We know that this is the case because of all kinds of things, body language, the look on a person's face.
Episode 264: Podcast Plebicide (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:12:28 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Prompted by Justin Jackson's blog post on why real life is better, Dave notes that in person you read body language and facial expressions. You can tell if something hurt someone or if they've misunderstood. On GitHub and Mastodon, debates over standards lose all of that, so people (Dave included) get their feelings hurt and flame out.
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Episode 264: Podcast Plebicide (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:13:18 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
As expected, there's disagreements. there always is going to be in this kind of work. And people, including me, we get our feelings hurt sometimes. We, you know, we flame out.
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