Some things I've found interesting by watching interactions here
- there's a definite type bias still in existance- sometimes people claim that they don't like/trust Sensors, sometimes they say that they like Sensors, but wouldn't date a Sensor, other times people are offended when it is suggested that they are a sensor- it reminds me of an exercize in tolerance that I helped conduct once in a high school class, where everyone stood up, but when thier racial tolerance threshhold was reached, they sat down- very few people would claim to have a prejudice against those of another race, but very few wanted to date/marry someone of another race- and nobody there wanted to be mistaken for a member of another race
- I've generally found it more difficult to interact here than in real life since I rely heavily on body language and reading another person when communicating- here you can't inflect words with a certain tone or see how the other person is holding thier hands- I do think that a lot of disagreements and spats would be avoided if we could see and hear each other instead of just reading what was typed (and conversely, a lot of spats and disagreements would start when people realized what was written between the lines!
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- openness versus privacy in people's posts- I've found it interesting that some people are rather protective of thier privacy and wish to filter out certain life experiences, which they are not willing to share with everyone while others share everything with everyone
- I know that I use PM and rep a lot as another layer of communication here- I don't know how that would apply to the dynamics of the site, but I know that I do a lot of behind the scenes work on things- almost more than I do on the forum at times
things like smoothing out situations, or demanding appologies for others and such
- to blog v not to blog- I've found the difference between who chooses to have a blog and who doesn't to be interesting- some seem to have blogs as a social feature, to chat with others and share about thier lives- others seem to have them just so that they can give mini-lectures there without cluttering up the forum- and some fall somewhere in between
that's just a bit of what I've observed so far!