If Business Meetings Were Like Internet Comment Systems

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What happens if participants in a business meeting behave like Internet commenters? It's funny because it's so true.
90% of the comments people make in forums etc. would not be made in real life, where other people could (in theory at least) actually retaliate physically or at least identify the person making the comment.

Warning: crude language.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/2563451/internet-commenter-business-meeting

This is the same office that had that 'Lit - I'm Not Sick But I'm Not Well' home-made lip dub music video.

It's even funnier if you happen to regularly look at http://www.collegehumor.com/ and their picture / video comments. Every single thread there is pretty much spot on with the video.
Like when one guy goes "Why isn't my vote being counted?!!!!"
That's about the collegehumor vote system that takes a while to update... All the comments on the votes go something like this:
"Why isn't my vote being counted"
"Hey, it didn't count my vote"

Missing from the video are:
- the guy who always points out stuff that the poster left out
- the grammar Nazi
- the guy who pulls out a Blendtec blender and starts shredding stuff up (will it blend?)

Definition of "Pwned"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned
A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned."

Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned."

It basically means "to own" or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.

In Internet security jargon, to "pwn" means "to compromise" or "to control", specifically another computer (server or PC), web site, gateway device, or application; it is synonymous with one of the definitions of hacking. An outside party who has "owned" or "pwned" a system has obtained unauthorized administrative control of the system.
What's interesting is that the term was one of 16 to appear on the 2006 "List of Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness," released annually by Lake Superior State University.
The slang term is now catching on in the vlogging or video blogging communities such as YouTube. In video blogging circles the word Pwn is being used in vlog wars. If an argument is won the winner is said to have Pwn'd his opponent.

Edited September 14, 2007 by dserban (see edit history)