P&G Poll: Do you feel that you can't accurately convey your opinions or ideas on the Internet?

I feel that it's very hard to do so, as discussions and debates focusing on politics or say, religion, are only best stimulated when facing someone in person.

On sites like Yahoo! Answers, you simply answer a question with your own snarky comment or close-minded view of things and then move on, with only thumb ups or thumb downs to reflect how your words are received by others. There is no active feedback or response, and you're left feeling like no matter what, you're still right. Who takes comments and objections on the Internet by other users seriously? If you get frustrated with trying to convince another person, you default to "Oh they're a liberal/conservative, so they can't possibly be convinced that my ideas are right" and you feel like a martyr or someone misunderstood and know there are people like you who will take your side and what you have written by only seeing it at face value.

I feel that the debate masters of yore, Socrates and all them, would curse such a thing as the Internet. That being said, I use the internet much like the people I've pointed out above, so I'm not a hypocrite. I understand this and am unfortunate enough to be caught in this one-sided misunderstanding-miscommunication phenomenon that seems all too frequent on Y!A.

Never mind that though, what are your thoughts?