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'Commenters'. Your English is fine, but could you please clarify what you mean by "defend commonplaces"? I'm guessing you mean "agree with / repeat common views
by silentbicycle 17y ago
'Commenters'. Your English is fine, but could you please clarify what you mean by "defend commonplaces"? I'm guessing you mean "agree with / repeat common views on the site" as opposed to informed disagreement - sometimes called "groupthink".
- yungchin 17y agoThanks, yes, I meant "repeat common views" - without necessarily meaning "groupthink" though. For me, groupthink implies uncritical thinking, whereas repeating (and repeatedly reading) common views is only inefficient. So I might down-vote examples of groupthink (if I had down-vote rights that is ;)), but I would just skip over common views without bothering to vote. edit: although in all likelihood, I wouldn't know groupthink if I saw it, being part of the group... :)