I was talking to someone the other day about internet etiquette and such and I brought up my time spent on usenet boards back in the 1990s. Talk about sharp elbows those places didn't give a crap if someone got their feelings hurt. People got called names repeatedly, and if you made a dumb post about the the board's area of interest, you got called on it immediately and it was made crystal clear to you that you dun fucked up and you're also an idiot. For all the talk about incivility on social media, I think it was far worse back in the 1990s. Maybe it was just the mods on the boards I frequented were dicks, though.