“In a way, it was less about being snarky towards the speaker, and more about amusing each other by sharing and exaggerating the pain.”

My bullshit detector went off – that just shouts “rationalisation”.

Especially in context with this comment on the article:

“My concern is the lack of professionalism by the audience. It felt like a modern-day version of throwing tomatoes at him. Twitter is a public forum, its not the same as sitting through the presentation and complaining to each other about it later. I believe we still need a level of etiquette and courtesy, and what happened on Twitter went a bit too far.”
.-= Masha´s last blog ..Bokkie at the Meeting =-.