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The comment I replied to:
Key word: "online"
If I met them in person, I'd be more inclined to listen to them.
Oh, why so? Less likely to be a bot?
I think it's just easier to be honest and not lie to someone to their face in real life. The ability to have your facial expressions be read and having to respond in a timely manner or admit you're not sure is much more likely to make people argue in an honest manner
People not having as much time to "decide" to go for bad faith is interesting
I wonder if someone made an actual list of observed differences in behavior IRL and online, with the same discussion as input.
I guess people would tend to simply refuse to interact with the discussion, but they would have the same things to say, right? Like, they don't have different opinions online and IRL. If you were giving people as much time and "confidentiality" to think and express their thoughts (which are generally seen as good things), it should look similar. Basically I think the online assholes would also be IRL assholes if you let them talk in similar conditions.
Anyways, there are differences, but I don't see any causes for "don't ever listen to anything due to this"