Thursday, January 4, 2007, 1:22:49 PM, charles wrote:
zero 0000 wrote
I agree 101%. Deletionism seems to be a sort of mental disease.
More radical incivility.
Actually, according to a New York Times article, incivility is becoming one of the characteristic features of Web 2.0:
(I think this link was posted already on this list):
<< As a Web 2.0 site or a blog becomes more popular, a growing percentage of its reader contributions devolve into vitriol, backstabbing and name-calling (not to mention Neanderthal spelling and grammar).
Participants address each other as "idiot" and "moron" (and worse) the way correspondents of old might have used "sir" or "madam."