Having a conversation on the Internet is like watching a Porno on cable

No matter how low your expectations are, somehow, they still wind up too high. I participate on a fair number of message forums, and one in particular is a non-tech forum that consists of a bunch of car guys who became friends (both in person and online) over the years. Of course there's always a few idiots who, for whatever reason, have nothing interesting to contribute and thrive on being a pain in the ass. It's these few idiots that make the "virtual world" so different from the real world. In the real world, these types of degenerates congregate with similarly useless people, and together they basically stay out of society's way. However, once you provide the anonymimity of a computer screen, that same useless twit suddenly feels empowered, and quickly evolves into a keyboard terrorist. He'll think nothing of invading a conversation between a bunch of folks who were getting along just fine without him, then suddenly begin spewing forth mental vomit as fast as his keyboard can deliver the message.

What the internet needs is a way to deliver a virtual ass kicking, because that's the obvious difference between real life and cyberspace. In high school those few idiots who didn't learn from the unfortunate mistakes of their piers, wound up becoming that example by which all others learned by getting his ass kicked, followed by a drink of dirty toliet water.