Yeah, man, totally.
There's a few reasons. One is that communication is just harder - you can't pick-up non-verbal cues like body language - and this makes people more prone to misunderstand you. It can be especially bad if someone is shy or antisocial or just has a weird personality and, because of that, has a predisposition to see hostility where none was intended.
Then there are the people who go to internet forums because they have some sort of desire to act like bullies (or be otherwise disagreeable) but don't have the balls to do it in real life. There are lots of these people on forums.
If someone's acting like an asshole on the internet, I just ignore them. After all, unlike real life, it's not like you can actually do anything about it (something that sometimes frustrates me to no end). Also (and unfortunately), if someone is being rude on a forum I sometimes get really worked up about it - way , way more than I should. It's one of the reasons I try to spend less time on forums than I might.
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