The Internet has become Stale

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[–]TheMaharishi 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Guy got online 2006 XD

I was online the first time in 1992. I remember reading a news net post titled "I once tried a stun-gun on myself". The internet hasn't gotten stale. The internet has gotten taken over by the majority, big gov and big business. Back in the 90s the minority ruled it with an iron fist. The average user was high IQ and well educated. You could speak your mind without fear unless you actually were committing crimes. Not this thought crime cancel culture BS of today. Where you have to censor yourself to the point where you almost don't exist anymore.

[–]QuantumLegion 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The net is like everything else on earth. Once you get People involved, it goes to shit. The more people who get involved, the worse it becomes.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Wouldn't necessarily say high IQ but there were definitely barriers of entry that kept most people away.

Once the smartphone came out it means everyone could get online easily that that basically started the effect you described. Personally I've a theory that it's largely due to the "feminization" of the internet. Not so much a problem with women online, there's always been some, but the frumpy moralist types you'd see in churches way back when. In other words, activist types.

Some bozo online told you to kill yourself, either ignore the fuck out of them, log off and do something productive, or whine and complain about how online bullying is making you sad and how it needs to end. Two of those solutions work fine, the third is the same sort of person who got rid of the swing set from the children's playground because some kids were doing stuff they weren't supposed to on it, like climbing it, or swinging too high. The fun police.

The way to end it is to bring back public smoking. Not that I like the public smoking, but ceading the commons to the most easily offended eventually means that rule list of what you can't do there will grow indefinitely.

[–]QuantumLegion 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

WTF do women have to do with it? Most censorship happy people I know are pearl clutching men. Usually gay.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Less "women" and more feminine attitudes supplanting most activity on the internet as time goes on. This isn't a dig at women, plenty are normal and don't act like the pearl clutchers, one area where trans ideology has some minor value, different personality types aren't necessarily tied to sex, feminine and masculine are just shorthand to describe a group of behaviors more typically associated with men and those more typically associated with women, individuals can show any personality type regardless.

In the past the internet was dominated more by masculine personality types as those people would show more interest in the technology as they are more interested in "things" over "people".

Once the tech goes mainstream and becomes "noob friendly" bunch of feminine types get on it and slowly dominate all online activity on social media message boards and the like, just because they tend to be more social and post more often. It's a tragedy of the commons but in a different way than normal. The whole point of the internet as an anonymous forum was to say the shit you couldn't say irl for normal reasons. But some random stranger saying something mean makes someone who shouldn't be exposing themselves to the raw unadulterated bile of the hivemind cry, so instead of telling that person to log the fuck off and go touch grass, you shut up the hive mind and only let people say nice things. Which just ruins the point of the anonymous forum so anyone with anything interesting to say will leave, and probably just go back to public forums where they are more restricted in some ways, but less in others since it's much harder to ban people IRL.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If the high IQ people in the West actually had a high IQ, they would have organized and sent everyone with a low IQ to die in a pointless war.