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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the OP:
It is one thing to be more blunt and direct than you would be in real life. Butyou specifically wrote "meaner" than IRL. You don't accept any ofthe suggestions. But you also have no alternative explanation. Ok so maybe you were just born with a gene for latent meanness. And because it's genetic, you have no control over your meanness. [/quote]

Actually, you may be onto something (this is OP).  I think I'm not actually 'mean' per se, but less (much less) filtered than IRL.  Perhaps I mis-wrote initially.[/quote]

I'm a lot like you OP, and I think there is something to this as well. I say snarkier thing son here than I would to, say, coworkers, but I can also be really nice on here, sometimes in ways that surprise me (like when I mean to write something super-snarky but then it ends up blunt-but-helpful). It reminds me of a This American Life I heard a long time ago about a waitress who was really nice but discovered she got better tips when she was "mean." Eventually they explain the difference and her "nice" was actually way too cloying (first-name basis, touching customers, smiley faces on the check, etc) and her "mean" was actually just straight and businesslike. [/quote]

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