[OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Wed Jul 13 22:15:16 BST 2011


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> I hadn't really thought about the pseudonym thing until a while ago when
> someone sent around the 'poisonous people' talk video done I think at
> google. One of their very first points is to note that trolls usually use
> pseudonyms and if you can stop that then things can get a lot better.

I just watched the video.  It didn't say that at all.  It said
(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 around
27:20) that poisonous people tend to:

*use silly nicknames (the example was "crazyjoe53woo")
*use multiple nicknames in different media
*overuse capital letters
*use excessive punctuation
*OMG WTFBBG
*generally have a lack of clue



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