User blog comment:Pihou/How to describe Wiki/Community Attitude?/@comment-53539-20140615104317

Conveying tone on the internet has always been an issue.

The other issue is, well, we deal with the same stuff every day. Over the course of the years, sometimes people say the same stuff over and over again. We're used to correcting things people say, which can come off as rude when its simply just trying to be helpful.

I recently did an experiment on DA involving OC's that a Miku box-art base. I posted some things in a "helpful critique manner", to see the reaction. Of the 6 people who reacted, 2 were decent, one in particular was mature. The other 4 were flat out rude, one basically told me to praise her work or not say anything at all, and another told me to just go away. The 6 people all had roughly the same message posted (since they were all lazy base edits methods), but of the 6, I had 6 different slightly reactions. Sometimes a thing can be read multiple ways, so a perrson can take something differently to another. :-/

I myself don't try to be rude, but due to dyslexia am forever doomed to come off as ruder then I should be. Trying to find words to speak, can sometimes be hard. But you would not think that reading some of my comments, that I have this issue. There are others here who do not have English as a first language, so can come off too as bad.

We also like to vent our frustrations in blogs, which are regarded as personal space to talk about subjects that we wish to share, be it real life or frustrations with the fandom or Vocaloid franchise. The big issue is, however, that no matter what any of us do, posts, blogs and comments only convey a fraction of a persons' personality. If you read one post where someone is rude, you can be tempted to take that person as overall rude, but elsewhere they might be acting really polite. If you see one post but not the other, you can get a false impression of them.

The internet is puzzling place to be with and you have to take everyone as they come. :-/