I support what you are saying 100% -- the people out here suffer from severe technological naivette and cannot fathom the effect print-type has and particularly when used in a desultory manner.
You want to see them cry "foul!"? All I have to do is insult one of their created "internet personas" and they will run for a moderator...this, when you attack an 'unreal' agency -- a fucking EMOTE! O' good God you will hear them scream as if you slapped them right across the mouth...
But wait! You apply the same logic that it is very hurtful and even damaging to REAL HUMAN BEINGS...that publicly whipping people can have a very negative effect on the very real psyche of a coach (in this instance) and the community he represents... oh my, then you will hear the cries of heresy. All of their "feelings" disappear and out flies the apoplectic claim that "every other message board operates under these same conditions!" Nice band of lemmings these lads and not a real a savvy group.
--- Again, I appreciate your attempts to help them recognize the effect they are having on the community...if Dean Smith had been from this era he'd have been fired long before having the opportunity to witness Billy Cunningham jump off a bus and rip down a burning effigy of himself. That act --making an effigy and then trotting it over to the old well and setting it ablaze in public for all to see --at least took some guts and skill. It takes no real effort or guts today...you just log on and start 'burning'.
