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Toxic Positivity
- AdrianB1 4y agoSocial media bragging and attention seeking is not toxic positivity, there is no positive in that.
- lwhi 4y agoI think this should be circulated to at least 80% of the people who used LinkedIn as required reading.
- retSava 4y agoI can heartfully recommend the subreddit LinkedinLunatics. Agree? Thoughts?
- wrnr 4y agoThis article is fine and all, but maybe we should also have a warning about toxic empathy. This is all a lot of emotional work, guess it is something we can all work on but so much other stuff going on.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y agoCan you give an example of toxic empathy?
- langsoul-com 4y agoPerhaps taking someone's problems as your own instead of letting them resolve the situation.
- dentaku81 4y agoI feel its whatever the opposite of just saying "damn that's crazy" when people complain at you.
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoNo, it’s when they have problems but you have all the anxiety as if they were your problems. This anxiety has jack to do with you actually helping them, it’s just that you get so anxious about their problems that it impedes working on your own problems.
- robonerd 4y agoPeople who are complaining often aren't soliciting advice and don't welcome it if offered. I think the "damn that's crazy" responses generally come from people who are aware that offered help won't be warmly received and don't have the emotional energy to put on a more convincing display of empathy, but still pay lip service to the premise for the sake of civility. But the exact opposite would be "What does that have to do with me?"
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y agoInteresting, I don’t see that happening in social media on a scale big enough to warrant as much criticism as toxic positivity. In fact, I don’t see that at all, though of course it could just be the curation algorithms—or is that being applied to activism too?
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoI don't know what the official definition is, but I'd consider deliberate mirroring of posture, online tone, and emotional state for conscious deceptive, and manipulative ends to be toxic empathy. Trivial example - phone services with the stock "Your call is important to us but we're experiencing an unusually high level of calls right now" message. When the truth is the company is spending a bare minimum on phone support and knows it. Or customer service scripts that say something like "I understand you're frustrated that you're having this problem." In reality there's no understanding. And there may not even be any interest in fixing the problem - because when you read back through other messages you see the problem has been there for years and there's been absolutely no effort to find a fix.
- stackbutterflow 4y agoThat sounds like most CEOs jumping on an HN thread when there is an article denouncing there company. They follow the same pattern. Start with "Hey! SomeStartup CEO here." Then proceed to explain that they are happy about the feedbacks and that they hear the complains. Followed by more words that could have been written by GPT-3.
- maxerickson 4y agoApparently the official definition is when someone over-identifies with the emotions of someone else (the over identifier is experiencing toxic empathy). I resent the scripted CS, so I'm not arguing about that part of it, but I think those are actually the opposite of empathy, sociopathically inserted in order to manipulate, emotionally aware but indifferent.
- tmortimerhun 4y agoSeen a few pieces about how we should be prioritising compassion over empathy to save ourselves from exhaustion. Only place I remember reading off top of my head was Rutger Bregman's Humankind. Interesting to ponder
- lauraekelly_ 4y agoThis is a very good point and I'm going to check out the book you mentioned. Thank you
- tmortimerhun 4y agoIt's super uplifting, which is not something we get from a lot of non fiction, of course. Hope you enjoy!
- Mordisquitos 4y agoI very much agree that so-called "toxic positivity" can be a problem, but I found this article greatly lacking in any sort of substance. There are no specific examples of toxic positivity, no explanation as to why its bad other than vacuous general terms repeated ad nauseam (did she mention toxic positivity invalidates lived experiences?), and no in depth explanation as to the alternatives other than what is essentially a dictionary definition of "empathy".
- groceryheist 4y agoCompletely agree! This was disjointed and didn't have a point. Wish I could downvote.
- Veen 4y agoPart of the disjointedness comes from the writer's apparent obsession with over-simple language and very short sentences made by chopping up longer sentences. It's a good example of what happens when inexperienced writers rely on readability tools like Readable (it's on the Readable blog).
- stavros 4y ago> It’s natural to emulate what we see online. But, going overboard on the ‘positive vibes’ may affect your content. Agreed, come on, splitting the sentence there just made it worse. Unlike many people, I'm not opposed to sentences that start with "but", but here it serves no purpose. It's not like we have an attention span of six words.
- samhw 4y agoYeah, I don't want to be cruel, in case the author is reading this, but it really is uniquely egregious writing (no toxic positivity here!). The broken-up sentences you mention are. Awkward and mostly grammatically inco. Rrect as a result. They seem weirdly unaware of the incredibly basic writer's injunction to vary your sentence length. There's no rhythm or cadence to it. You can literally feel the author grimly trudging toward the target word count. It feels completely disconnected from anything real, full of unevocative abstract nouns connected with unevocative abstract verbs. "Don't be too hard on yourself if you're struggling with negative thoughts" - well, what the fuck do you think 'negative thoughts' are? Reading this felt like having my teeth pulled. I think the biggest problem, though, is that they really just do not have anything valuable to say. I wouldn't be surprised if it were written at gunpoint. We used to write essays on random subjects instead of lines as a punishment at school, and I think those essays were more enthusiastic and insightful than this one. It just meanders along, with no overarching direction or purpose, from useless bromide to useless bromide, until they get to the word count and stop, and that's it.
- thenerdhead 4y agoDoes toxic positivity also count for those who overshare online for internet points? I think it is brave to share the human side of our lives more often, but I feel like most platforms have people sharing a bit too much from the heart. As if every post has a meaningful insight from a lived experience of the human condition. Almost to the point where there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred and the realization of that in a public forum.
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- nicbou 4y agoThis article reads a lot like SEO spam. I can't really say why. Perhaps it's the title structure, or just the word count boosting?
- tgv 4y agoBecause it needlessly mentions branding and customer success? I've seen that on so many spam pages.
- mentalpiracy 4y agoThe aggressively short and interruptive sentence structure.
- OJFord 4y agoI agree with greatly dislike this, on the surface... but this article suffers from basically the same thing itself?! > I asked our Customer Success Champion, Natasha, about this topic. Empathy is one of her many superpowers. Groan! ... unless I misunderstood it... now I'm wondering if the 'think positive' lead image was used unironically..?
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoI don't see any evidence that the writer has that level of self-awareness. I'm increasingly beginning to suspect that business culture is inherently hallucinogenic. Between title inflation (everyone is an "executive" or maybe a "champion" and has "superpowers"), emotional distortions (don't be too negative, don't be too positive, never be sure where the line is or what the correct emotional state is), and perpetual overhyping ('Our incredible journey...') - it's very literally an altered state of consciousness designed to exclude reality.
- lauraekelly_ 4y agoI wonder if you have any self-awareness about the toxicity of making a presumptuous and insulting comment about me, someone you don't know, based only on an article I wrote about toxicity... Or maybe you are just that uncaring about the impact you may have on someone's day? I can take valid criticism and have read the critique on here with genuine interest. However, I don't believe this comment about 'the writer' is necessary. I don't see anywhere I've talked about our "incredible journey" on the post either? This is a little baffling. I thank you for your view and engagement nonetheless.
- samhw 4y agoI think it's probably not a good idea to read comments about your writing on the internet. They aren't sending them 'to you' - you've sought out this discussion - so it's on you if you choose to read people's opinions. If you want constructive advice: try to write in the same way that you would talk. Shallowly, that means read your writing out loud – what Flaubert called his 'gueulade' – or, even better, vice versa: write down your spoken thoughts. More deeply it means not saying anything that you wouldn't say in real life. Get to the point, ditch the fluff, treat it like a (garrulous, one-sided) phone call. Have your point constantly at the front of your mind, and only say what's absolutely necessary to explain or justify it. It will improve your writing immensely. Oh, and read Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language': https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli.... If pressed for time, then particularly the last third or so. His advice is the best you can ever hear as a writer. Reflect on your good fortune: by writing this, you've now identified what makes good writing.
- zeroth32 4y ago> Airing concerns or struggles in the workplace can be really nerve-wracking. Often, we are afraid of appearing unprofessional. We fear being judged negatively. This is the perfect opportunity to practice active listening. This ^ is toxic positivity. I am not unpaid therapist for my work colleagues. I have my own problems.
- Xylakant 4y agoOTOH, it’s useful to know when your colleagues are struggling, either professionally or personally. It puts their reactions into context and helps anticipating their performance. If they’re struggling, they will not be giving their best show, as will you and as will I. We’ll all drop the ball, be slower,… and knowing I should expect that helps me, because I can try to cover some of their bases, as will they when I’m struggling. There may also be some unresolved conflict in the workplace that could be lowering everyone’s performance. There’s no need to get into details or cross over into therapy territory, but a “hey, I’m currently not doing perfectly fine” is a much appreciated heads up for me. Showing that you do care to a certain extend helps people share those feelings.
- UncleEntity 4y ago> Showing that you do care to a certain extend helps people share those feelings. Unless you don’t actually care and can’t tell them “get your shit together on someone else’s time, dude” because that would be a micro-aggression since they don’t like being called dude.
- cxr 4y agoIf you can provide those kinds of affordances to someone after they've informed you that they're "struggling, either professionally or personally", then you can do it without making them have that conversation as a precondition to your charity. If someone is struggling, that means they're vulnerable. Forcing them to take a gamble by enlarging the "surface area" of the risk that they're exposed to (by advertising it to someone else) is shitty. It punishes people who can't take that risk (in other words, the people most in need of relief) and also (separately, possibly doubly) punishes the people who manage to successfully cover their own bases without slipping or otherwise indicating that any of this is coming at great cost. Corollary: you should assume that anyone could be struggling at any time (or all the time), and default to giving everyone whatever latitude they've earned and deserve, whether they've had an intimate heart-to-heart with you beforehand or not.
- sime2009 4y agoThe article here is a bit too fluffy. The ABC (think BBC, but Australian) covered the topic quite well via one of their radio programs / podcasts. The came at it from the context of illness, which makes it a more concrete example. You can listen to it here, or read the transcript at the bottom: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/toxic-positivity-when-happiness-becomes-harmful/13749368 https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/t...
- tallanvor 4y agoFor actual information about Toxic Positivity, I think the following posts and articles are likely to be much more helpful: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-toxic-positivity-5093958 https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-toxic-positivity-509395... https://thepsychologygroup.com/toxic-positivity/ https://thepsychologygroup.com/toxic-positivity/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/tired-of-being-told-cheer-up-the-problem-of-toxic-positivity-11635858001 https://www.wsj.com/articles/tired-of-being-told-cheer-up-th... And I haven't read it yet, but I saw a new book on the subject is out "Toxic Positivity: Keeping it Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy": https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Positivity-Keeping-World-Obsessed-ebook/dp/B094VCFSZW https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Positivity-Keeping-World-Obsess...
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoI feel like the whole Cheerful Fairy episode in the Hogfather has more substance than the linked article. And is fun to read. Although shitty articles sometimes give nice topics for a better discussion here in the comments, so why not.
- curiousgal 4y ago> Keeping it Real Not be confused with Dave Chappelle's sitcom https://youtu.be/D3U55usfJK8 https://youtu.be/D3U55usfJK8
- JonShartwell 4y agoI’d also add Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-sided, motivated in part by her irritation with people telling her to be positive after hearing about her cancer diagnosis https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113758696 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113758...
- robertlagrant 4y agoJust using the word "toxic" as a binary classifier of "things I don't like" is a problem. That includes people not being positive enough.
- lwhi 4y agoTo my mind, I think toxic is a byword for 'extreme behaviour'; and furthermore, extreme behaviour is often a symptom of a personality disorder at its most pronounced.
- mattcwilson 4y agoExcept then it also becomes a label to classify the undesirable as extremist.
- lwhi 4y agoMaybe so! .. but more likely a narcissist or sociopath in my experience.
- robonerd 4y agoAs often as not, those are precisely the people using these weapon words.
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- robertlagrant 4y ago"Extremist" is a problem too. In 1787 banning slavery was an extremist position in the world.
- noodleman 4y agoI always assumed "toxic" means that it affects others it comes into contact with. e.g. You've had a bad day at work: Negative: Being a bit withdrawn and avoiding conversation Toxically negative: Shouting at your wife and kids
- noodleman 4y agoThis is quite a thin article. Not really much to go on in either direction. I'd be interested in some better reading on the subject if anyone has any. Personally, I think I see a lot more toxic negativity than toxic positivity in the world and I've rarely heard the phrase "toxic positivity" used in a justifiable situation. Not to say that toxic positivity can't exist but quite often articles discussing it come across to me as justifying a defense mechanism people use when challenged over their toxic negativity.
- BlargMcLarg 4y agoA lot of people just want to be modest and realistic. They don't like decorating things, telling half-truths or flat-out lying about the truth. Both being overly positive and being overly negative do this. However, from personal experience, most places which affect one's personal life and cannot be reasonably skipped (unless you wish to live close to a poverty wage, and even that is questionable) emphasize being more positive than need be. Negativity can more or less be skipped by just unplugging social media. Take the classic "why did you leave your previous job" question in job interviews. Most people leave jobs over something which cannot be interpreted as anything else but negative. Bad bosses, bad managers, no growth, no opportunities, too little pay to support future goals. Yet negativity is a no-no (as is "greed" and a bunch of other things). So yes, most people are decorating or lying about the actual reason. And no, this question doesn't exactly indicate any kind of job performance, it's more like a hazing ritual. Same goes for other questions. It's a weird kind of dystopia for people who are primarily logic driven and/or horrible at selling themselves, and don't have a skillset so in demand they can ignore those barriers. Let alone those who are vulnerable to this kind of behavior (people who are too modest for their own good and anxious to boot come to mind).
- orwin 4y agoI quit my job because I was a bit bored, my new job isn't better, but at least I have 10 weeks of vacations, and my 35h a week allows me to enjoy my life without sacrificing either sleep or family when I'm not traveling. Is this toxic positivity?
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- subroutine 4y agoThere was an interesting comment on HN a few weeks ago [1] where an engineer at Fast (1-click checkout) attributed their downfall [2] to "Toxic Positivity". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30947595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30947595 [2] https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091077398/checkout-startup-fast-is-shutting-down-after-burning-through-investors-money https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091077398/checkout-startup-f...
- lauraekelly_ 4y agoThanks the the feedback everyone, I will take it on board. It wasn't intended as a lengthy deep dive, and by the nature of our product is more from a branding and customer success angle. But perhaps I should have had more outgoing links to more coverage on the topic like the ones some of you have helpfully provided. I appreciate the comments that have been constructive!
- mlindner 4y agoHow about the toxicity of attacking positivity? This world has WAY too much negativity right now and it's downright harmful to human psyche. People are freaking giving up on the world and deciding that they should never have children because they think they'd just be bring them into a doomed world. That's when you know negativity has gone so far. Some toxic positivity on the odd occasion to counteract the nonsensical rampant toxic negativity is fine with me. It's gotten amazingly ridiculous. People are even cheering for good things to fail now out of some kind of warped jealousy. And no, for those who thought this, I didn't read the article.
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- t-3 4y ago> That's the reason they give when they are put a microphone in their face, in reality humans are pleasure utility maximizers, if you cannot extract any advantage out of kids then it's only natural that people won't have them. Exactly. I know that having kids ruined my mother's life and trapped my parents in an unfulfilling relationship. Why would I want to waste my life raising kids, when it leads to misery (scientifically proven!) and requires so much money and time?
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- FargaColora 4y agoI consider YouTube comments to be an example of "toxic positivity". YouTube are using AI to only show "postive" comments first, but the overall effect is a bizarre cultish "uncanny valley" approximation of how a real community react.
- lupire 4y agoI assume that commenters are learning to post sarcastic comments that trick the AI. I pity anyone who doesn't already have a big subscription list of the small segment of quality YouTubers.
- robonerd 4y agoYoutube comments are useless for both criticism (generally censored, either by the video creator or by youtube itself) and praise (virtually always vacuous.) The only thing they are good for is adding context or relevant anecdotes. E.g. a video about an engine may have comments from retired mechanics who've serviced that engine before. It really depends on what kind of content you're watching though. For wide swaths of content on youtube, there is nothing worthwhile that can be said in the comment section, either because youtube wouldn't show that sort of comment, or because there's earnestly nothing to be said.
- andrewingram 4y agoI know someone who's genuinely very positive, a rare inspiration; but he once said (on Facebook) that he never posts anything non-positive because he doesn't want to be seen as a downer. To me this was problematic, because I was personally coming to find his relentless positivity to be quite depressing.
- Ensorceled 4y agoWhile Toxic Positivity the term exploded in usage during the pandemic, its been a problem since before social media. The start up I was part of in the late 90s was rife with toxic positivity, making the work place oppressive and surreal; eventually playing a large part in its failure.
- dr_dshiv 4y agoI just went to a massive workshop by Esther Hicks, famous for “law of attraction” and emphasis on positive emotions for manifesting deliberate creation. She presents a classic ”New Thought” philosophy—and her ideas are a big target of those espousing the dangers of Toxic Positivity. I was happily surprised. She emphasized the value of negative emotions, the importance of noticing and identifying negative emotions, and the importance of “not beating yourself up” about having negative emotions. But, at the same time, she unabashedly presented moods as something that we can and should consciously control. And, she claimed that positive moods can allow good things to happen that don’t happen when we are focused on negative emotions. I’d have to write more to clarify more, but I was surprised by her nuance. “There is just one message: You create your own reality, and —-you just gotta vibe it out.” I’ve read a ton of philosophy and I just love this. It might seem vacuous, but now that I’ve seen her, I really think it is on point.
- wirrbel 4y agoIt’s a typical phenomenon that the original message/idea is often distorted by its replication. Usually the ideas tend to mutete to be more simple to pass on. So Balance and counterpoint is lost, but sometimes stuff is added because it helps „victims“ to pass on the narrative. Key example is agile: key ideas are lost (continuous re-evaluation of software development and user/stakeholder interaction), while other stuff replicates under the same label like crazy (sprints, story point estimation ). At the end of the day I find it’s totally plausible how a „manage your emotions and don’t be permanently negative, stay open and don’t reject things straight away“ can turn into something like „be positive, always, and smile at all the traffic lights on your way to work“ (no kidding)
- jasperry 4y agoFor a more substantive analysis of how an excess of positivity is causing problems, I highly recommend Byung-Chul Han's book "The Burnout Society". He argues that Western culture has shifted from a negative "thou shalt not" model to a positive, open-ended "you can" model, and that this is a cause of much of the depression and burnout we see today. And he says that this has happened in capitalist societies because it results in greater efficiency--it gets people to exploit themselves rather than needing to be driven by others.
- adrianbd 4y agoAs some other comments touch on, what this could be framed as is "Ruinous Empathy", which is what Kim Scott calls it in Radical Candor: https://www.radicalcandor.com/radical-candor-not-brutal-honesty https://www.radicalcandor.com/radical-candor-not-brutal-hone.... The crux of it is that it's more useful to give someone a harsh truth that will help them grow (in a tactful way, while conveying that you care about them personally) rather than trying to be nice but ultimately not helping them course correct.
- drugstorecowboy 4y agoWhen people are so generously out there "helping people grow" in tactful ways, much of the time the benevolent helper doesn't actually know how to do that. People generally make what they think are rational decisions, it always feels like extreme hubris when someone decides that they know what would be best for someone else. They can't possibly know what reasoning lead to their current course of action. Thats what makes toxic positivity toxic, its people deciding that whatever lead you to have less than a cheerleader level of positivity is irrelevant, your thoughts on the matter are irrelevant, because they know how you should feel about something and want to help you "course correct"
- adrianbd 4y agoJust to be clear, my comment is talking about toxic positivity in the workplace (I intended to anchor my reply to another related comment) - I agree that toxic positivity regarding other people's more general problems will just minimize their decisions and experiences. At work however, I've definitely been helped by being given direct advice on things I hadn't even been considering I could be doing better (or doing at all, as a matter of fact). Your take implies a lack of trust in the motive of the other party, which is obviously a deal breaker, and the reason why establishing trust in the first place is required.
- hubbubb 4y agoThis is really insightful and I love how it’s presented! The workplace is the most guilty of this in my experience and I wish my previous employers could’ve learned the darn difference. (Also the nature of these comments is the ironic cherry on the vitriol cake)
- dontbenebby 4y agoHi vincent_s, Thanks a lot for sharing this! I actually deleted my Instagram, along with Facebook, but I've been considering setting up some kind of photo blog where I write out detailed descriptions of the set and setting for every photo I posted there during my time on The Website. Real life is messy, and what's important is the trendline, not individual data points. For example, if this was ten years ago, I'd be hung over, barely able to code, trying to get through some dense cryptography paper despite never having taken calculus, nearly punching someone in a cafe because I thought I heard them use a very offensive word for black people, only to have them chuckle and explain it's the name of a group of people in the region between Russia and the parts of China that are home to a different ethnic group. Instead, I'm running a script I wrote that will help me gather data for an investment theory I'm working on (and will test) while catching up on the news from a location other than my home, because I got tired of unusual coincidences. You don't want to be a debbie downer, but yeah, too much positivity can be a bad thing, IMHO. - Greg. Edit: Whoops, hit post early. I'm still skittish in public due to COVID, sometimes I post too quickly.
- fithisux 4y agoThe tool of new world order to spread despair and rule by drowning opposition.
- alecst 4y agoUgh, I hate to say this but this article feels like GPT-3. I realize you can’t really defend against this accusation which makes it a logical fallacy of some kind (ad robotinem?) but I think as the technology develops we do have to become more skeptical that what we read was written by a real person.
- rsyring 4y agoRadical Candor by Kim Scott described something similar and labeled it Ruinous Empathy[1]. I found her insight into these conversation patterns helpful. 1: https://www.radicalcandor.com/our-approach/ https://www.radicalcandor.com/our-approach/
- layer8 4y agoThey recommend empathy. However, businesses trying to communicate that they care about their customers by feigning empathy (“we are sorry to hear you’re encountering this issue with our awesome product”) but not actually acting like they care (not providing useful information, not engaging with the actual problem, not actually fixing the issue) is what comes across as toxic positivity for me. At least in a business relationship, communicating empathy is a turn-off if it’s a replacement for actually being helpful.
- travisporter 4y agoAbsolutely agree. I'd rather have a disgruntled tech support person say "sorry we can't do that." Not, "How's your day, let me pull up your info, I see you're bla bla, anything else I can help you with?"
- antifa 4y agoFeigning empathy isn't a good definition of toxic positivity. A better definition would be: > We define toxic positivity as the excessive and ineffective overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state across all situations. The process of toxic positivity results in the denial, minimization, and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience. https://thepsychologygroup.com/toxic-positivity/ https://thepsychologygroup.com/toxic-positivity/
- layer8 4y agoI didn’t mean it as a definition, just as an instance. The “feigned empathy” is intended to make the recipient feel better (by making them feel empathized with), and in that sense is meant to be positive, but since it doesn’t address the actual objective of the inquiry, it instead makes the recipient feel like taken for a fool, aggravating any misgivings they may already have had, or generating ones in the first place.
- besus 4y agoI spent several years at a SaaS which was plagued with toxic positivity. The underpinning platform was slapdash and took 4x the expected time to add features because of it. Yet the GM walked around trumpeting that we were fielding a best in class offering. Any mention of the reality of the situation was met with replies about not being a team player and showing negativity. It was an absolute morale killer for the development and SRE teams charged with on-call rotations which resulted in exhaustion and frequent outages. Start-up code is often naive and hastily put together. Growth pains are expected as customer count and revenue increase. Don't bullshit the situation with false positivity. Address the issues and live to fight another day. In the end, that SaaS has slowly faded away to obsolescence due to the lack of honesty about the actual state of the union.
- bsedlm 4y agoI really dislike this form of content. In this comment, I will tell you about this somewhat new way to write content on the internet. But first, I must explain to you what is the internet. The internet is a network of many computers in which anybody can write what they think and publish for anybody to see. On the interent people find stuff with search engines such as google. Eventually, marketers came up with SEO. Click here to find out about SEO. With SEO people started to game google to get more people to read their content. Those poeple write like this. I'm imitating their way of writing because it is less annoying to me when I also write this way. Should you write in this way too? Studies show that wiriting like this lets you place more ads in your website. But what about readability? etc...
- overthemoon 4y agoYeah, it's awful. It's padded out with useless preamble I assume for SEO reasons. Troubleshooting Windows issues with Google is a waterfall of this bullshit. I hate having to go to windowsitgeektuts.com to read six paragraphs about how people like to hear sound out of their computer just to be told to reinstall the driver.
- annoyingnoob 4y agoI've worked places where Human Resources is more like the Fun Police, and you'd better have some fun. Talk about toxic positivity.
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- jum1p 4y agoGreat article! How are you doing? I hope your doing great, such as me. It doesn't seem to be new but I'd prefer if people'd stop to sell emotions.
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- WaitWaitWha 4y agoWhy do we have to 're-invent' new words and present as something new for things that have been around for millennia? I am all for exploration, but re-naming breaks the link to valuable historical material.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoWhenever I hear "Toxic Positivity", I think of the character Mr Peanut Butter from Bojack Horseman. He's the icon for toxic positivity.