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0 pointskelnos1y ago0 comments

> I also have a suspicion that some of these people are literally mentally ill, and online is basically where they live.

It's certainly reasonable to expect that there are at least some mentally ill people in any decent-sized community, but the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory[0] suggests -- and I agree -- that there are many people who just turn into complete assholes when they are anonymous or semi-anonymous, and can hide behind their computer, tens or hundreds or thousands of miles away from the people they interact with.

I don't know the demographics of your game, but this is especially true of teenagers. (But not exclusively true.)

[0] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...

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david4221y ago

> I don't know the demographics of your game, but this is especially true of teenagers. (But not exclusively true.)

It's just a card game, and I expect that the average age is actually quite a bit older. Which is one of the reasons why I am quite surprised at the rhetoric used, because I would have thought that "adults" wouldn't behave that way. I was very wrong.

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david4221y ago

> I don't know the demographics of your game, but this is especially true of teenagers. (But not exclusively true.)

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