John Byrne
Grumpy Old Guy
Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132286
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Posted: 23 September 2017 at 11:30am | IP Logged | 1
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Altho we often think of them as "conversations" and "discussions around the water cooler", internet forums are neither. Conversations and water cooler chatter fade into the ozone, but online discussions become part of the "permanent record". People scanning for data in years and decades to come could well turn up speculation and not recognize it as such, thus building on false premises. Not a few recurring Big Bad Byrne stories are directly a result of this effect.
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