graculus

According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, people receiving email have only a 50-50 chance of ascertaining the tone of any message correctly. The study also shows that people think they've correctly interpreted the tone of e-mails they receive 90 percent of the time.

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amycooper.livejournal.com

I'd believe that.

I had a mishap a while back with an lj buddy. I thought that I had accidently upset and offended her. I apologized only to find out that I didn't.

However I also have another lj friend that was flamed for disqualifying a fic in the Isis awards (because it had graphic rape and incest) and the author of the work wrote her a letter comparing her to Hitler. *rolls eyes* Sometimes judging tone is hard, sometimes it is way too easy.

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graculus.livejournal.com

Being involved in running anything online provides you with hours of entertainment, whether it's lists, communities, fic awards or archives. Actually, I think the latter may be worse because there's some obvious or subtle 'prize' element involved and therefore people get even more worker up about perceived slights. Like you say, sometimes it's just too easy to tell what people mean... ;)