Mutual respect, prejudice, safety, and personal responsibility

[Jimboot]

What is a person, besides their behaviour? On the internet, the only observable characteristic of a person is their behaviour.

Exactly - you are what you publish, as my good mate David Meerman Scott says. (Business author)

[Jimboot]

What is a person, besides their behaviour? On the internet, the only observable characteristic of a person is their behaviour.

I'll take this a step further, in my day job I'm constantly working with business owners on their personal & business brands. Sometimes I have to explain to a client that what they are publishing in text makes them sound like a pompous arsehole and they need to change the tone of what they publish. Yes sarky, the tone. Text is not a good medium for communication when compared with AV. That's how emoticons evolved.
You dickhead 
is very different to
You dickhead!
So if all people know of you is your text then you better make sure it's how you want to be perceived. If you don't care that's fine, just don't be surprised if people disrespect you if you disrespect others. It's social media 101.

[sarkeizen]

Yes sarky, the tone.

A better word would be inference or connotation.  Such as using a diminutive for someones name or title connotes disrespect.

If you don't care that's fine, just don't be surprised if people disrespect you if you disrespect others.

Which isn't really what this was about.  Clearly anything you feel disrespected by does not validate any and all disrespect...or maybe to you it does but that would kind of make you the "bad" person.  So I'm not sure where you're going with this.

It's social media 101.

So according to you anything you type should be what you want to be known by.  So....the common trope that people who consult on social media are often perceived as unskilled know-nothings...should mean what here?

[sarkeizen]

On this and related forums calling someone a shill or government agent is almost like calling someone a child molester or a rapist.  There is no way that you can know that and the vast majority of what you see with respect to electronic circuits around here is at an introductory high school level.  That's just the realty.  So you should not use these terms because you can't possibly know this is true, and there is no real rational basis for stating it anyway.

This is another good point which differentiates "shill".  It's almost entirely an unknowable based on the information you could gather from this board.

[orbut 3000]

OTOH, only a shill would say that.