January 24, 2005

• Both
• ditto
• I've only formed an online persona for a few monkeys, so for their posts I'm probably influenced by that persona. For the rest, I just respond to the message. I do try, however, not to carry grudges and spats from one thread into another.
• I have no idea you mad tart.
• I don't do grudges. Except if it's Boring Modem, or whatever the fuck that prick called himself. I allow them everyone else their bad days.
• them
• I tend to ignore the context as far as I can get away with and post something that panders to my own vast ego and sense of superiority regardless of who I'm responding to. Silliness aside, I certainly take past exchanges into account in online discussions since it makes sense if you want to move beyond merely superficially exploring subjects. I'm more likely to be facetious where I think it will be taken in the spirt intended, but I haven't been here long enough to get a sense of many monkeys yet.
• Yeah, both. As rocket said, there are a few for whom I've subconsciously cobbled together personalities, but for most members here I generally respond to the comment, I think.
• I think it would be impossible to be contextually impartial. If I've formed an impression of someone that's most likely going to influence how I respond. That said, I also try to have a policy of being nice to people so even if I think they think with their toenails I try not to call them on it :)~
• Both, neither. If I feel I have a different insight, then I respond to the original poster. If I'm dittoing or amplifying, then it's usually to one of the other posters. If I'm being a smartass, or trying, desperately, to be funny, then I try to limit my responses to those who have demonstrated a capacity for tolerance of online wackos (ie., Nostril, Squiddy, and the like). Sometimes, I'm trying to metaphorically fluff up the plumage in a mad and hopeless attempt to make me feel better about myself.
• I create massive Tamin style biographies of all of you, and parse each and every one of your utterances through my hyper-parallel cell architecture quantum macro-puter in order to discern you present synaptic status. I know everything you are going to do before you do it! If you tell anyone I'll have you shaved, sterilized and destroyed.
• Once I form a virtual persona of someone in my mind, that's going to color every post they make--at least for me. I can almost hear them in my head. For example, if Nostril posts "You are quite the crackbaby, aren't you? Please never post here again," I'd just laugh and wouldn't think twice about it. But if, let's say, SideDish posted that same thing, I'd feel compelled to ask her what was wrong. However, as a general rule, unless I can tell someone is being facetious/mean/sarcastic/silly, I usually try take what they're saying at face value--whether I "know" them or not. / waiting to be told to never post here again
• I try to answer just the current comment. But I don't always succeed.
• I generally respond to the poster for the post, not the persona. I try not to tease anyone since I'm not sure I know you monkeys well enough to make a joke at your expense. I also avoid posting in threads full of um, heated confrontation, so I'm not left remembering who I'm holding a grudge against later. Having said that, I do realize some people here employ more wit or sarcasm or insult in their posts, and I expect it out of someone like the quidnunc kid. Look forward to it, even.
• I have very clear personaes for most of the regulars here, and it influences my comments. But I'm like that -- when I read an article, I often google and wikipedia the author to know his biases, especially if I disagree.
• I expect it out of someone like the quidnunc kid. Look forward to it, even. Please don't encourage him. Last time someone did, we were scraping marmalade out of the VCR.
• name that itch, please never post here again. /obvious/
• Depends on who it is, and what they're saying, whether they're commenting on stuff or asking for advice. If I feel I know them a little bit, and that they can take a joke, I might make a wisecrack, but again it depends on the topic. I tend to avoid arguing, as it usually gets me in trouble.
• As a relatively new monkey, I take comments from the more prodigious members within the context of their persona, and respond to just the post for those of whom I don't have a good grasp of just yet.
• I respond only in anticipation of future comments.
• Both, it depends on the monkey. There's at least one who if I see post in a thread, I walk away from it. Others, I like to actively engage in debate because I know that they'll provide me a good view of where they are and perhaps enlighten me a little (f8x, fes, etc).
• both Name that itch, this or any other thread. I respond only in anticipation of future comments. ditto, Bernockle MonkeyFilter: subconsciously cobbled together personalities
• I try to respond to just the post, but I can't help but be aware of persona with people who have big personalities, as it were. My experience in other fora is that I tend to let my hair down a little with people I know and like (responding to poster), I'm neutral with people I don't know (responding to post only), and I'm scrupulously polite to folks I don't like (responding to poster) or, like shawnj, just don't answer their posts. Fortunately, I don't have any monkeys that I need to virtually killfile.
• I'm usually not a member of online communities long enough to base my responses on their personalities, as I have not participated enough to form strong opinions.
• If you've spent some time on any forum or board, just by past posts you begin to create a personality, a face to regulars, on your mind; I can't help it. And, feel that ends up influencing responses, yes. As some said, you have to take context and personality into account, in order to respond to some jest with the appropiate retort, or give a more serious comment. And that's what I find interesting in this and other boards. You start to see how the same situations and events affect and are perceived by different personalities, nationalities, age groups. Something you might not have in your 'real-life' circle of friends and acquaintances. One always needs more than one viewpoint and some dissent...
• depends on how well i know their online persona. i'm more likely to be paying attention to what they're saying if i don't recognize them, and more likely to be paying attention to why they're saying it if i do.
• Whichever way makes for the funnier comment.
• Right, surly, I imagine you all in your skivvies. And respond accordingly.
• i'm not even sure I have an online persona (shutupshutupshutup i do so have an offline one!) so i just respond to posts/comments generally unless i'm fairly clued-up... naturally, MoFi leg-ends get a bit more respect (mainly coz I don't wanna get on the wrong side of the Nostril-deployed missile or Alnedra's TrollHammer. a smackdown from languagehat is also embarrassing. and quidnunc has got plenty of juicy weird-juice.)
• Right, surly, I imagine you all in your skivvies. And respond accordingly. Doesn't everybody?
• "There's at least one who if I see post in a thread, I walk away from it." That's me, I know it. He hates me. Sometimes I cry about it. That's because I'm pathetic. And ugly.
• "if Nostril posts "You are quite the crackbaby, aren't you? Please never post here again," I'd just laugh and wouldn't think twice about it." I'd never say that. I'd never use the term 'crackbaby'. That is not me. I might use 'fuckhead', or some other schoolyard expression such as 'knob-end'. But not crackbaby. That's.. that's just not me. Crackbaby? I mean, what is that? What is a crackbaby? Are there any crackbabies older than, like, 15 or something? For this grave insult, pimples at dawn.
• Maybe the dingo ate your crack ba-bay?
• I use my previous exposure to someone's comments as a guideline for my response to their current comments.
• I find knobjockey to be much more satisfying than knob-end. drjimmy11, it wasn't a dingo, a kangaroo took it, stuffed into it's pouch and went bouncing down the street. Rumours of a 'roo boy' were later heard in the town.
• Even when I make a post directed at one specific individual, I know that it's going to be up there for every other monkey, and I believe that it affects how I construct my post.
• "ooh, the construction of his post, now, is it, duck?" "well, more of a bijou postette..." /Julian and Sandy i don't know why. that just appealed to me
• On Monkeyfilter, it's the comment - I'm too new to this community to be able to always distinguish posters*. Also, unlike the other online communities I post in, there are no signposts (avatars, taglines) to remind me who's who. *Beeswacky's an exception here.
• Moment by moment. Then if it's a comment that sounds crazy I try to remember what I know about them.
• I usually just respond to myself.
• All my comments are intended to highlight my best side, i.e. from a little left-of-center and at eye-level.
• Both, but place primary emphais on what's being said most recently in a particular thread. Find monkeys are amusing, interesting, and on the whole irresistable. I don't avoid posts by anyone, but soke sugbects are less interesting to me than others. Believe consistency is over-rated. People have varying moods, whims, enthusiasms, changing ideas and tastes, and I see no reason why an individual's posts shouldn't reflect this. I daresay we all take ourselves too seriously at times.
• =some subjects
• I daresay we all take ourselves too seriously at times. I'm mostly guilty of this when there's other crap happening in my life. I then leap on some poor poster with an objection on literal grounds that I don't really care about at all and make some completely spurious big deal out of it. No, I will not link! The evidence is abundant. I generally try to apologise for this. If I haven't apologised to you, you're probably an asshole.
• How To Comment Real Good By T Q Kid, esq. 1. First youse gotta make a real funny comments like that guy that makes fun of nuubs cos they all dubbul post allatimes ha ha! that guys sure is funny huh just like ralph malph 2. Tell the president to rock on! liberuls is always trying to rape my dead gay kids or somethinmg anyways i wish happy days was president the fonz would fucking kick ass 3. make sure yu spel gud or that Wolf guy will be all like "yur stoopid!" i hope that guy goes back to BELGIUM or whetever god joanie was hot man
• *doesn't aplogrise tew kidnunk quid*
• yure just jealous cos peeple tell me i look real nice like chachie
• That's me, I know it. He hates me. Sometimes I cry about it. That's because I'm pathetic. And ugly. Haha! It's not you, Nostril. I've called you out a few times, but I find you more funny than anger-inducing.
• I don't post enough to comment on this topic--eventhough I guess that I just posted a comment to state that fact.
• Other people post here?
• Even as sporadically as I jump in here to read threads and post in them*, I've seemed to get a feel for some of you. Others I'm not sure if they are new people or just haven't been posting much (MeFi with the user numbers linked makes it a bit easier to guess how long someone has been around just by mousing over the user name link). Perhaps that's best, maybe; treating everyone as if they're potentially a Founding Member even if they just signed up last week. At any rate, I tend to answer questions based on whether I know something about the answer or not. How I phrase the answers doesn't seem to depend on the person asking, I'm pretty much the same way with everyone I suppose. *Trying to cut it down to every other day or so. I do have to graduate eventually, y'know...
• Don't fuck with Donnie Most. Did you see "Stewardess School?" Didn't think so. "Ralph Malph" was a masterful creation. Flog your ignorance elsewhere.
• Do we have founding members? I thought everybody was equal till we hit our first five digiter then we started the discrimination based on seniority. Which leads to an inevitable rebellion where anyone with less than three digits gets defenstrated.
• It's settled with fisticuffs. That's why I joined.
• Maybe those among the seniors feel like founding members.
• at first i posted variously with the big-nose-and-glasses and without. But I found that the community (such as it was/is) didn't respond. Then I deleted myself. Then I registered as myself as someone else. Then I posted as myself being someone other than myself but still me with the big-nose-and-glasses and then i posted again. With the exception of Monkeybashi and some of the rabble that have sluiced in recently, i am everyone. and now you know the secret to how we (generally) get along.
• Cork yer whine-hole you festering, bloated knob-jockey. Both.
• I can tolerate petebest, but that pete_best guy was an arrogant prick. I'm glad he's gone. on preview, it looks like he's back. God help us all.
• MonkeyFilter: I imagine you all in your skivvies. MonkeyFilter: From a little left-of-center and at eye-level MonkeyFilter: If I haven't apologised to you, you're probably an asshole. MonkeyFilter: Cork yer whine-hole you festering, bloated knob-jockey. Pete: If Cautionlivefrogs can keep jittery, jumpy amphibians together in a nice web persona, how come you can't keep your avatars together or your pants on? I have no web personality, all I have are these taglines.
• damn preview
• BlueHorse's web persona is easily identified by the trails of superflous closing HTML tags left dangling behind each comment. /ducks
• As Mfpb's web persona is easily identified by the ducks following behind.
• quack
• hush, you.