StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix

Re:StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migra... by krapp on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:52PM (#17148305)

The way I see it, the web being primarily text based makes empathy difficult, which makes irate and rude behavior easier. It's easy to forget that there are real people on the other side of these text boxes.

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Re:StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migra... by kbenson on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:28PM (#17150194)

Not just text, but temporal and geographic distance as well. There's plenty of Youtube reaction videos going back and forth of people just bashing each other, like any other flame war.

Also, let's not discount the effect an audience has. I would hazard that most negative public comments are actually crafted more for the benefit the author gets from the public reading it than the purported target. What's a little hurt feelings of one or a few when you get that buzz of doing something that shocks or amuses 20,000 people?

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Re:StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migra... by zerostar07 on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:59PM (#17148362)

i guess text has always been harsher thats why books are so interesting

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