386: Duty Calls

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Duty Calls

Title text: What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

Explanation

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Cueball, and many Internet nerds, feel an irrepressible pull to correct people who are wrong on the Internet. The comic has no mention to trolls, but anyway Cueball could be advised that many of these people are simply trolling.

In 955: Neutrinos another incarnation of Cueball is cured of a similar disease.

Transcript

[Cueball is behind a computer.]

Voice outside frame: Are you coming to bed?

Cueball: I can't. This is important.

Voice: What?

Cueball: Someone is WRONG on the internet.

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Discussion

Doesn't look like anyone's touched this during its spotlight as the Incomplete Article of the Day. But really, what else can we say? 199.27.128.66 03:06, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Maybe how deeply compelling the "need" to fix something wrong on the Internet is? It's not just a plain correction.... it gnaws at you...108.162.219.8 03:17, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Related: some time ago I saw someone (jokingly?) explaining her technique to get replies to her questions: first, using her username, ask the question in the relevant forum, reddit, etc.; then, using another username, post a wrong answer. Shortly after someone will correct it and supply a correct answer. Unfortunately I didn't save the tweet(?) and I don't think I could find it again. Rps (talk) 13:15, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Tried to flesh out/improve the analysis. Still needs some editing for clarity [I'm not sure how formal the tone of this wiki is supposed to be?] but hopefully it's an improvement on the previous edit. 108.162.216.56 17:47, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

I think its good. Hits on all the points, unless anyone sees differently I think it adequately explains the comic. I think all the editing from here is flow and stylistic stuff. And that's minimal. --Lackadaisical (talk) 20:22, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

It's a Cunningham's law reference, guys, that's it. 141.101.106.155 (talk) 11:38, 26 February 2015 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

The title "Duty Calls" has a double meaning. One that Cueball needs to go "fix" the internet and that he needs to "be" with his S/O. 108.162.216.47 21:04, 26 August 2015 (UTC) 127.0.0.1 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I think this explanation misses the case when someone is factually wrong on the internet, and doesn't just have a different opinion. For example, when someone on Facebook "discovers" that the Mercator map projection is "wrong" and that the "true" one is Gall-Peters (true story), I believe even Randall would feel the need to say something. But of course, the border between factual errors and arguing is very thin... 162.158.150.64 09:50, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

I just added an "alternative interpretation" for just this case. Rps (talk) 13:11, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

What about when you are legitimately trying to help someone? 172.69.42.130 (talk) 19:09, 12 November 2020 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Oh dear, Cueball represents me here. Beanie (talk) 11:52, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

See Cunningham's Law 172.68.50.189 (talk) 19:10, 13 March 2022 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)