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I dunno your comment feels like someone being overly dramatic to try and win internet points. Would you have this same reaction if someone said they were creat

I dunno your comment feels like someone being overly dramatic to try and win internet points. Would you have this same reaction if someone said they were creating a social network for programmers? Music Lovers? Runners? Cooks? Saying that you are creating something that is targeted to a group of people is perfectly fine... complaining that people identify as that group of people seems silly.

dx87 6y ago
I don't know about OP, but I'd feel the same way about any of those. It's assuming that everything about your personality fits into some stereotype. It's one thing to create a social network to find other people to play games with, it's another to assume that if you play games, then you must have a specific personality/lifestyle that is appealing to other people who also happen to play games. It's just a hobby, your identity doesn't have to revolve around being a "gamer".
- monkeywork 6y ago
  Do you keep your files in various directory structures or do you have a flat root that everything goes into? I don't identify ONLY as a gamer... I'm a gamer, a Dad, a Canadian, a jr developer, a painter, etc etc etc. If I feel like consuming content about a specific one of those subjects it's useful when they call out who they are targeted for. You are confusing the use of labels or even self identifying as belonging to those labels with the attitudes of those who are in those groups. You're taking a vocal minority and painting the entire group with it ... think of other areas in life where you wouldn't do that...
- carlmr 6y ago
  Some hobbies consume a lot of your time, some less. I hike, climb, go running, ski, snowboard, etc. I would say I'm a climber, since that takes up a lot of my time. I will spend 3 evenings a week in the climbing gym and often go to the mountains on weekends. If I date somebody it's a big bonus for me if they climb, too, it makes scheduling together time much easier. I'm not a gamer, but most gamers I know spend significant amount of time on gaming, so much so that it often crowds out other social activities (which is ok). If a gamer wants to be together with a gamer the seems reasonable to me.
- slightwinder 6y ago
  > It's assuming that everything about your personality fits into some stereotype. It's not "every"thing, but "some"thing. It's just a simple patternmatching-mechnism to filter out people who might be interessted in whaterver you are selling. Nothing prevents those people to also match other patterns or even indicate that it's forbidden to match multiple patterns.
zabana 6y ago
What if I'm an audiophile programmer who has won multiple marathons and likes to cook as a hobby ? What then ? Interests and identities are fluid that's why trapping people in boxes never works in long term
- take_a_breath 6y ago
  Who’s trapped? You can opt into this if you’d like to meet other gamers. If not, do nothing.
- monkeywork 6y ago
  your making it sound like someone is applying the label to you and forcing you to take actions based on it. It's self identifying ... you can be all those things and your not "trapped".

dx87 6y ago

I don't know about OP, but I'd feel the same way about any of those. It's assuming that everything about your personality fits into some stereotype. It's one thing to create a social network to find other people to play games with, it's another to assume that if you play games, then you must have a specific personality/lifestyle that is appealing to other people who also happen to play games. It's just a hobby, your identity doesn't have to revolve around being a "gamer".

monkeywork 6y ago
Do you keep your files in various directory structures or do you have a flat root that everything goes into? I don't identify ONLY as a gamer... I'm a gamer, a Dad, a Canadian, a jr developer, a painter, etc etc etc. If I feel like consuming content about a specific one of those subjects it's useful when they call out who they are targeted for. You are confusing the use of labels or even self identifying as belonging to those labels with the attitudes of those who are in those groups. You're taking a vocal minority and painting the entire group with it ... think of other areas in life where you wouldn't do that...
carlmr 6y ago
Some hobbies consume a lot of your time, some less. I hike, climb, go running, ski, snowboard, etc. I would say I'm a climber, since that takes up a lot of my time. I will spend 3 evenings a week in the climbing gym and often go to the mountains on weekends. If I date somebody it's a big bonus for me if they climb, too, it makes scheduling together time much easier. I'm not a gamer, but most gamers I know spend significant amount of time on gaming, so much so that it often crowds out other social activities (which is ok). If a gamer wants to be together with a gamer the seems reasonable to me.
slightwinder 6y ago
> It's assuming that everything about your personality fits into some stereotype. It's not "every"thing, but "some"thing. It's just a simple patternmatching-mechnism to filter out people who might be interessted in whaterver you are selling. Nothing prevents those people to also match other patterns or even indicate that it's forbidden to match multiple patterns.

zabana 6y ago

What if I'm an audiophile programmer who has won multiple marathons and likes to cook as a hobby ? What then ? Interests and identities are fluid that's why trapping people in boxes never works in long term

take_a_breath 6y ago
Who’s trapped? You can opt into this if you’d like to meet other gamers. If not, do nothing.
monkeywork 6y ago
your making it sound like someone is applying the label to you and forcing you to take actions based on it. It's self identifying ... you can be all those things and your not "trapped".