It's very different to talk to someone you have a rapport with from talking to a perfect stranger, and I definitely think the recognition matters. You get these weird interactions all the time on the Internet: If I ask someone a question about their reasoning, someone else may very well respond with what they think.

In a lot of Internet conversation it's like you are correcting people who you disagree with and then expounding what you think is true. That isn't really what conversation is like, I don't think.