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Have you considered that what this essentially leads to is the only acceptable emotional response being either classic nerd commiseration or over-intellectualiz
by s_m_t 8y ago
Have you considered that what this essentially leads to is the only acceptable emotional response being either classic nerd commiseration or over-intellectualizing yourself out of any position that risks any sort of conflict. Essentially, a website of mostly socially stunted nerds with a set of rules to reinforce their unfit social behavior.
- dang 8y agoYou bet—I've considered that, or similar objections to that. The thing is, it doesn't work out that way in practice. The opposite is true as well. That is, while one might think that full-out conflict would lead to more honest, explicit communication, in practice it doesn't work that way. What happens is that people's range becomes narrower. There's a lot of energy in it, and a lot of anger, but not much information. That makes such discussions repetitive: mostly people repeat the same hostile points in ever more intense ways. Repetitive discussions can be agitating, but they're not intellectually interesting, so they're the thing we're trying to avoid here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- s_m_t 8y agoCool, thanks for the consideration