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The phenomenon of the nitpicky someone-on-the-internet-is-wrong type comment is so prevalent, I thing we need an acronym like tl;dr for it. How about "willful

The phenomenon of the nitpicky someone-on-the-internet-is-wrong type comment is so prevalent, I thing we need an acronym like tl;dr for it. How about "willful misinterpretation; doesn't justify response"? Wm;djr

dkarapetyan 11y ago
This is great. I think I'll start signing my responses this way in response to "willful misinterpretations".
munificent 11y ago
Great idea. And if anyone is confused, this thread is already the #1 result when you Google "Wm;djr".
zem 11y ago
or bf;wr (bad faith; won't respond). i prefer the term "bad faith" since it covers more cases than "wilful misinterpretation"; i've been using it to good effect on facebook to disengage with malicious arguments, though i didn't think of acronyming it.
- openfuture 11y ago
  I like the ;wr part (won't respond) better than the ;djr (looks complex). But we should make sure to decide on a single one* to use, I like a bit of both: wm;wr cause of symmetry. *maybe it would be more effective to have multiple and see if any of them catch on but I feel like it'll just cause unnessecary confusion
- jxramos 11y ago
  I vote that some of these get adopted, definitely solid concepts worth formalizing.
geowwy 11y ago
Scott Adams suggests calling it "outragism". http://blog.dilbert.com/post/109482303301/outragists-are-the-new-awful http://blog.dilbert.com/post/109482303301/outragists-are-the...
- jxramos 11y ago
  "I coined the word outragism so victims of it will have a powerful word of self-defense", what a fantastic idea! Word equipment/equipping, good stuff.
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  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    Fantastic, except what you get is an arms race, and then someone pulls out a conceptual superweapon[0][1], and the whole topic becomes an irradiated, barren wasteland that won't be able to provide any value for a couple of few years. [0] - http://squid314.livejournal.com/329171.html http://squid314.livejournal.com/329171.html [1] - http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html
  - rcxdude 11y ago
    It's important to be careful that such mechanisms don't become a thought-terminating cliche, however.

dkarapetyan 11y ago

This is great. I think I'll start signing my responses this way in response to "willful misinterpretations".

munificent 11y ago

Great idea. And if anyone is confused, this thread is already the #1 result when you Google "Wm;djr".

zem 11y ago

or bf;wr (bad faith; won't respond). i prefer the term "bad faith" since it covers more cases than "wilful misinterpretation"; i've been using it to good effect on facebook to disengage with malicious arguments, though i didn't think of acronyming it.

openfuture 11y ago
I like the ;wr part (won't respond) better than the ;djr (looks complex). But we should make sure to decide on a single one* to use, I like a bit of both: wm;wr cause of symmetry. *maybe it would be more effective to have multiple and see if any of them catch on but I feel like it'll just cause unnessecary confusion
jxramos 11y ago
I vote that some of these get adopted, definitely solid concepts worth formalizing.

geowwy 11y ago

Scott Adams suggests calling it "outragism". http://blog.dilbert.com/post/109482303301/outragists-are-the-new-awful http://blog.dilbert.com/post/109482303301/outragists-are-the...

jxramos 11y ago
"I coined the word outragism so victims of it will have a powerful word of self-defense", what a fantastic idea! Word equipment/equipping, good stuff.
- deleted 11y ago
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- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Fantastic, except what you get is an arms race, and then someone pulls out a conceptual superweapon[0][1], and the whole topic becomes an irradiated, barren wasteland that won't be able to provide any value for a couple of few years. [0] - http://squid314.livejournal.com/329171.html http://squid314.livejournal.com/329171.html [1] - http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html
- rcxdude 11y ago
  It's important to be careful that such mechanisms don't become a thought-terminating cliche, however.