Baron Pepperpot
Active member
I regularly read and contribute on NSC. I did stop for a while because it seemed there were too many abusive posters on here, but soon realised I missed it because most folk were very intelligent and rational and made some very thought provoking posts.
It leads me to a question though. Of the small number who do make inciting and abusive remarks, but perhaps not enough to constitute a ban, what is their psychology? What is their reasoning behind a person attacking another for a view deemed different to theirs? I often wonder at posts that simply read ‘Idiot’ or ‘dickhead’ and try to understand the reasoning behind them. If someone, say, writes 'David Beckham is a knob', what do they expect to fulfil from such an inarticulate rant ?
It’s not something we’d do in normal life.
I think it's because I enjoy the forum so much that all this puzzles me.
It leads me to a question though. Of the small number who do make inciting and abusive remarks, but perhaps not enough to constitute a ban, what is their psychology? What is their reasoning behind a person attacking another for a view deemed different to theirs? I often wonder at posts that simply read ‘Idiot’ or ‘dickhead’ and try to understand the reasoning behind them. If someone, say, writes 'David Beckham is a knob', what do they expect to fulfil from such an inarticulate rant ?
It’s not something we’d do in normal life.
I think it's because I enjoy the forum so much that all this puzzles me.