A dozen years ago, I was heading a film forum on Netease, then one of the three biggest portal sites in China. I made it a rule that participants could express any opinion on any movie, but had to back up his or her view with reasoning. Simply saying "this movie sucks" or "it's the greatest film ever made" wouldn't do. Actually I had an abhorrence of that kind of vociferation. If you truly believe this is either the best or worst you've ever seen, you won't be short of words for arguments.
That bulletin board of mine became something of an anomaly. It did not have the biggest following, but the most devoted. But for a website, it's the number of participants that matters, not the quality of the discussion.
That platform was only about movies. Had it been about politics or sports, you can rest assured that cries of killing would have been the norm, more or less.
Some worry about online antagonism spilling over to the physical world. There have been cases of online celebrities of different political factions who arranged to duel it out at the southern gate of Beijing's Chaoyang Park. For the most part, the combustible kind tends to appear docile and soft-spoken in real life. They may not even be able to make a coherent argument in a debate with their opponents, let alone pick a fistfight.
This duality is often seen as a reason, rather than a pretext, for their online stridency. They are the two sides of the same coin. Because they are usually restrained in manner and speech in the physical world, by personality or by necessity, they have to find an outlet for their pent-up emotions, and what's a better conduit than an anonymous social site? You can put on the air of a braggadocio and play the role of superhero in vanquishing your foes in whatever manner you can dream up.
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