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Whatever Happened to Civility on The Internet?

Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror, one of my favorite blogs, posted a great article about the civility on the Internet.

It starts by pointing a very common commentary in another blog, just to point out the growing nerd rage we find (particularly) online. Personally I think such attacks are a completely waste of time and a result of the extensive use of anonymity we can only find online.

The article is very good and certainly the discussion generated on comments can be even better.

It reminds me of an older post called “Don’t Ask Us Questions. We’ll Just Ignore you.” that pointed out how difficult it is to get help from people who actually know about software or hardware, but most of the times they just ignore us.

I think this xkcd.com webcomic just makes shows my point: