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My Idea for Book or Website about Messageboards and Forums
I think a good social sciences author could make a killing if they wrote a book about messageboards, included the good, the bad, the ugly. Sometimes I think they were invented for the sole purpose of studying herd mentality and determining which methods are best to get a group of people thinking the same way. Messageboard mods are often diabolical which supports my theory even more. But I digress, here's the rough draft so far...
Title: Mark Anthony's Crash Course In Messageboard Personalities
--Ideas for Chapters--
Chapter 1. Posers, Fakers, Fronters - say they have material to increase social standing (but dont)
Chapter 2. Trolls - who the fuck are these people anyways?
Chapter 2 Section b. Trolls being outed and the awkwardness that follows when the troll tries to save face and throw a smokescreen of sorts by making fun of themselves (sorta but not really)
Chapter 3. Weeners - Why posters with the biggest mouth have the smallest dicks, lowest self esteem, live in grandma's basement
Chapter 4. Senior Members - fair minded, but criminally jaded fucks. Everything was better back in the day
Chapter 5. That one outgoing girl with the cute avatar that makes out with every guy on the board sooner or later. Guys girlfriends are intimidated by this girl at every gathering she attends.
Chapter 6. Stoners/Trippers/Huggers - that guy who consistently posts jibberish that only makes sense to him at that exact moment in time (my personal favorite)
Chapter 7. Peace Makers - loved by everyone, never look like what you expected when you meet them in person
Chapter 8. Terrible English Kid - that google translating 19 year old from the 2nd World that is still learning english, creating new wildly popular internet memes without even realizing it
Chapter 9. Gangbangers - wait for someone to complain about something, verbally monkey stomps the complainer, even if they agree with the complaint. Gangbangers roll in packs of 3 or 4 usually, and gangbangers never start their own thread because they themselves do not want to get stomped out by other gangs
Chapter 10. Dry Humor Sarcastic Innuendo Guy - is so full of shit that sometimes in retrospect even he doesnt know what he meant when he said that. Sometimes emoticons are the only thing saving him from outright banishment
What do you guys think, could it work?? I could expand upon it and provided concrete examples kind of like Ishkur did with his EDM guide.
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