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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,
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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.
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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?
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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