What the heck is "Webtribution" you say? Just by the word you may intuit that it is some form of cyber-revenge and that it isn't pleasant and you are right. Simply put, it's vengeance, or payback if you will, via the internet. Behind a monitor and keyboard people do things to rectify perceived slights, be they real or not, that they wouldn't dream of doing in person. From this WSJ article comes the following passage.
"Psychologists actually have a term for this: the "online disinhibition effect." They divide this type of behavior into two categories: "benign disinhibition" (which is what happens when someone says something private they might not have shared publicly with many people offline) and "toxic disinhibition" (expressing rudeness, anger, criticism or hate)."
The article doesn't say anything you might not already know or might not have surmised if you spend any time online in social network settings or on opinionated blogs, but it does give some interesting examples and encapsulates this phenomenon in a way which makes you think.
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