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Sneering comments from neckbeards are worse than downvotes to me. Some days are just Monday and you're not on your game, but that doesn't stop the neckbeards f
by ldiracdelta 9y ago
Sneering comments from neckbeards are worse than downvotes to me. Some days are just Monday and you're not on your game, but that doesn't stop the neckbeards from trying to light you on fire, despite the fact that you spent 30 minutes massaging the question or half a day agonizing about asking the question. You know the neckbeards are lurking in their basements.
- grzm 9y ago> "Sneering comments from neckbeards" Condescension, like any other dismissal, can be rough and is definitely detrimental to communication. That said, I encourage you to be the change you want to see. Name calling as you've done here, and snark, as you've done elsewhere in this thread, similarly degrade conversation and communication.
- ldiracdelta 9y agoI'm not directing this at anyone in particular and so I will use "bad", yet colorful, words for people behaving bad. No one is going to read these comments and think they are the neckbeards, but most people who have participated in Stack Overflow have interacted with a preening, sneering neckbeard and neckbeards are indeed a problem on Stack Overflow.
- grzm 9y agoThe idea that it's ever okay to use language that demeans other people—in their presence, directed at them, or elsewhere—is part of the culture that allows people feel that it might be okay to do so directly. It's a habit we all should be working to break.
- _kst_ 9y agoSpeaking as someone who happens to have a full beard, I find your use of the slur "neckbeard" insulting. Find another way to say whatever you meant.
- danmg 9y agok