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People sure love to generalize their experience. No, I wouldn't. I've gotten plenty of value out of it without incurring whatever costs you did which make you s

by Tenoke 5y ago

People sure love to generalize their experience. No, I wouldn't. I've gotten plenty of value out of it without incurring whatever costs you did which make you so sure your experience is universal.

mdp2021 5y ago
Surely that place has value: in the posted material, if you can scavenge. On the human side, it can be a mess - extremely difficult to have a proper and mature discussion there. In places that entice emotional participation it is sheerly consequential that gut behaviour is effectively promoted. But this excludes «proper and mature discussion» as a consistent plan. It is very different from "[scope: ] «anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity»".
- Tenoke 5y ago
  The audience and types of conversations vary wildly between subreddits and the issue you are experiencing is likely due to where you have subbed.
  - jldl805 5y ago
    Or due to the emotional context and baggage you bring to the website.
  - mdp2021 5y ago
    I am sure it does - it will depend on the moderators. For many reasons, I am sure that it will be much, much easier to find there guts-dictated comments - no content, no reasoning, no arguments, but lots of partial statements claiming status of truth, and declarations of sympathy. I have not see it happen here. Incidentally, I noticed there are guidelines there, being circulated in the past hours, very recently, that are inviting to censorship. Which creates another effect: sequences of "Yea, Well done, This is the way, Down with the scum, Frown on the snakes", with no single "Yes but" and obviously no "Boo". In the section about "horror movies featuring fancy cars", the participants and/or moderators are now scientists with truth in the pocket. Honestly, this makes it unnatural to go to those places to note a fancy car in an horror movie.
notimpotent 5y ago
Agreed. I find the various subreddits related to things I'm interested in to be a great resource and occasionally, great entertainment.

by Tenoke 5y ago

People sure love to generalize their experience. No, I wouldn't. I've gotten plenty of value out of it without incurring whatever costs you did which make you so sure your experience is universal.

mdp2021 5y ago

Surely that place has value: in the posted material, if you can scavenge. On the human side, it can be a mess - extremely difficult to have a proper and mature discussion there. In places that entice emotional participation it is sheerly consequential that gut behaviour is effectively promoted. But this excludes «proper and mature discussion» as a consistent plan. It is very different from "[scope: ] «anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity»".

Tenoke 5y ago
The audience and types of conversations vary wildly between subreddits and the issue you are experiencing is likely due to where you have subbed.
- jldl805 5y ago
  Or due to the emotional context and baggage you bring to the website.
- mdp2021 5y ago
  I am sure it does - it will depend on the moderators. For many reasons, I am sure that it will be much, much easier to find there guts-dictated comments - no content, no reasoning, no arguments, but lots of partial statements claiming status of truth, and declarations of sympathy. I have not see it happen here. Incidentally, I noticed there are guidelines there, being circulated in the past hours, very recently, that are inviting to censorship. Which creates another effect: sequences of "Yea, Well done, This is the way, Down with the scum, Frown on the snakes", with no single "Yes but" and obviously no "Boo". In the section about "horror movies featuring fancy cars", the participants and/or moderators are now scientists with truth in the pocket. Honestly, this makes it unnatural to go to those places to note a fancy car in an horror movie.

notimpotent 5y ago

Agreed. I find the various subreddits related to things I'm interested in to be a great resource and occasionally, great entertainment.