Don't be a dick.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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Don't believe everything you see. Actually I was taught that about TV, but for some reason the old folks forgot about it being applicable everywhere in life, not just on TV. They also forget about it on TV too.
Stay anonymous
1.0 ratio is the low bar, leech
Don't Feed the trolls
the rule should be that you don't use your name until you're like 35 and understand how to use it properly
The same people who warned us about the dangers of the internet and not to believe everything, are now the ones readily falling for and spreading conspiracies and lies from social media.
It's tragic.
I suspect now it was never about "don't believe everything", it's just been "believe what I believe". Which I suppose follows Nietzsche's thought on the transition from religion to ideology.
Make sure you use the right type of search engine for the type of information you want.
Since when this was a rule rule??
Before Google dominated you had a different search engine for blogs, mp3s, warez, link pages etc. You also had directories where the content of the web was neatly organised by topic.
Never lived on this era but this feels life a fresh breath of peaceful life.
Bottom-posting eMails and Usenet posts.
Fuck you, Microsoft. Bottom-posting replies is the correct way to reply.
German here, I remember teaching people email etiquette and reminding them: βNo TOFUβ (Text Oben, Full quote Unten).
Means sth like βtext above, full quote belowβ
Quote above, reply below was the eMail and Usenet standard from the 70s until Microsoft introduced Outlook, and more importantly, bundled Outlook Express with Windows in the mid to late 90s. Those were the first products that automatically top-posted by default, and especially on Usenet, you could almost always correctly identify an Outlook Express n00b by virtue of them top-posting.
Read -> Comprehend -> Post
There always have been the nick picks. But now sometimes there is barely any connection between the post and the comments. Like two people with multiple strokes distributed between them having an angry teams call.
*nit picks
Don't meet people from online.
The first rule of usenet.
Don't share your personal information online.
Yeah that's definitely not being followed anymore.
Don't give your credit card details over the internet.
Nowadays people have them saved in their damn browser for convenience.
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"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -Abraham Lincoln
Social media, a gorilla getting shot, two US elections, and GenAI later, we have completely fallen off this one simple rule.
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When you share something cool, link back to the original creator or where you found it from.
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Don't feed the trolls.
Of course nowadays its nearly impossible to tell whos spouting racial slurs to get folks mad and whos doing it because they're just an asshole.
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Basic forum etiquette. It's horrifying at work seeing teams "teams" (forums) used like chats, all the cross-posting and thread necromancy, people completely unable to keep topics confined to the appropriate sub-forum, etc
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