@cheebdragon basically treating everyone on the Internet nicely and respectfully like you do in real life.
@JLoon I wasn’t thinking of anyone here when I asked this. What I wrote was literally what I saw on a forum thread. It was from someone who tried to justify why that particular forum is so toxic and he had no problem with that. He basically said that he was a toxic person who liked to swear and offend other people there, but in real life he was an upstanding citizen who had a stable job, was nice to everyone and had a clean record. Therefore how he behaved on the Internet didn’t reflect who he was as a person. He then said that people who insisted on being respectful on the Internet were dull. The Internet was supposed to be a place where you had fun, not a place to act like a prude.
Then there was a Reddit post I saw. It was about someone’s friend who was a complete troll in online games but really nice in real life. The justification was that he thought people should stop taking their games seriously. Therefore it would be your fault if you got angry at a troll.
The online game I’m playing has some rather… problematic people. They seem to take great joy in being assholes, from insulting other players to interfering with the gameplay of other people just last night I almost lost the game because two assholes stood on my way to the finishing line refusing to move until it was almost time. And judging from their points, some of them have been there for a long time and have been assholes multiple times. That does make me wonder if they really believe the same thing as that forum guy, hence my question.