Odds and Ends

fuckyeahbeinghuman:

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You are allowed to have opinions of other people, and you are allowed to express them. But insulting people anonymously is cowardly and childish. If you are not prepared to put your name to your opinion, think carefully about why that is. Why are you not willing to give the person you are insulting a chance to have an actual conversation with you?
When you send an anon ask, you are giving yourself power over the person you send it to, because you get to decide when the conversation is over. If you stop sending asks, they cannot respond to you again. You are safe in knowing that the person you are attacking cannot touch you, and you are free from any consequences. Abusing that power is not very nice, to say the least.

Of course, there are times when the ability to send messages anonymously is a good thing, and this blog will always accept anon asks. But when you take advantage of that option, please consider why you are doing so. Would you want someone to say the same thing to you?

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I do hope that was an isolated incident, that has not happened before and will not happen again, but hoping for things does not make them true. So, if any of you find yourself in need of some tips on being nice on the internet, this article should be perfect for you:

Not Being a Troll Isn’t Enough: A Handbook to Being a Model Internet Citizen

edited to be universally relevant.

(also this is relevant to that rant I keep saying I’m going to write, but to be honest I am rarely angry enough to write rants, so who knows when that’ll happen)