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How do you know you're recognizing other players though if in the vast majority of interactions you can't verify such a thing due to the anonymity? It's true th

How do you know you're recognizing other players though if in the vast majority of interactions you can't verify such a thing due to the anonymity? It's true that it's often easy to tell when another individual here knows less than yourself or has a less matured knowledge on a topic, but recognizing another player just means that they can speak at the same level as yourself. You make the distinction based on the contents of their words and not their identity which gets back to benefits of being anonymous: The only thing that matters is the contents of the discussion. An interesting way to see this in action is to take a look at any conversation here debating different viewpoints. You'll often have conversations that could coherently be read as between two individuals but every post could have a different author that contributes to the conversation in a way that it doesn't matter who they are. What is said matters much more than who says it.

sandworm101 6y ago
>> but recognizing another player just means that they can speak at the same level as yourself. Not levels. It is about experience rather than complexity. Law students, all students generally, get hung up on the minutia of a situation. Old hands see the bigger pictures. The law student will say "That doesn't come in because it is hearsay". The lawyers say "If the cops have it, it almost certainly will come in at trial somehow". The old hands don't bother with such discussions because they know a case is won or lost long long before evidentiary hearings.
- ninjanomnom 6y ago
  By level I don't mean experience or complexity so much as the amount of baseline knowledge needed to take part in a conversation. To use your example, the old hands are fully capable of being part of a discussion on the technicalities of a case with the student, they just realize there's more to it than the technicalities. The conversation is at a lower level because the barrier for entry in experience is lower. Recognizing who someone is from the conversation they're taking part in though is much harder. A historian or police officer could just as well understand that legal cases don't depend as much on technicalities as people think and be capable of taking part in such a conversation without others in that conversation being able to tell the difference between them and a professional lawyer. The best bet then for most parties is to by default treat all others as equals of unknown origin until shown otherwise.

sandworm101 6y ago

>> but recognizing another player just means that they can speak at the same level as yourself. Not levels. It is about experience rather than complexity. Law students, all students generally, get hung up on the minutia of a situation. Old hands see the bigger pictures. The law student will say "That doesn't come in because it is hearsay". The lawyers say "If the cops have it, it almost certainly will come in at trial somehow". The old hands don't bother with such discussions because they know a case is won or lost long long before evidentiary hearings.

ninjanomnom 6y ago
By level I don't mean experience or complexity so much as the amount of baseline knowledge needed to take part in a conversation. To use your example, the old hands are fully capable of being part of a discussion on the technicalities of a case with the student, they just realize there's more to it than the technicalities. The conversation is at a lower level because the barrier for entry in experience is lower. Recognizing who someone is from the conversation they're taking part in though is much harder. A historian or police officer could just as well understand that legal cases don't depend as much on technicalities as people think and be capable of taking part in such a conversation without others in that conversation being able to tell the difference between them and a professional lawyer. The best bet then for most parties is to by default treat all others as equals of unknown origin until shown otherwise.