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For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 30 minutes ago

1.0 ratio is the low bar, leech

[–] [email protected] 2 points 37 minutes ago

the rule should be that you don't use your name until you're like 35 and understand how to use it properly

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago

Don't be a dick.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

Stay anonymous

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

The first rule of usenet.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

Don't Feed the trolls

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Make sure you use the right type of search engine for the type of information you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Since when this was a rule rule??

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Bottom-posting eMails and Usenet posts.

Fuck you, Microsoft. Bottom-posting replies is the correct way to reply.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

German here, I remember teaching people email etiquette and reminding them: β€œNo TOFU” (Text Oben, Full quote Unten).

Means sth like β€œtext above, full quote below”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Is bottom-posting some kind of kink I'm not aware of?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Maybe it's in the following example, or the inverse?

Citation

Reply to citation

[–] [email protected] 30 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago

Read -> Comprehend -> Post

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago

Don't meet people from online.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago

Don't share your personal information online.

Yeah that's definitely not being followed anymore.

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