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Belief change has a lot to do with emotions. It's more difficult to have strong emotional impacts on other people when you aren't face to face.
It even harder when you aren't live and a person might wait between reading your posts.
Face to face to can see when a word that you say raises the level of tension in the person that you are interacting with and use that feedback to target your approach.
When I'm discussing on LessWrong I mainly focus on making arguments. When discussing in real life I take the person I'm discussing with much more into account. What are their emotional needs that I have to fulfill to get them to change their opinion?
Our instincts react to proximity / distance of other people.
Of course they are not calibrated to internet-era distances, but they probably round it to some "far enough" value. Which is probably different for text messages, for phone calls, and for video calls. (I would guess the loudness of the speakers and other technical parameters have an impact, too. Maybe even the font size.)