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As unhappy as I was as a user of MetaFilter, this is a bad characterization. "Read the room," as practiced on MF, means that you can't storm into a thread with
by legerdemain 4y ago
As unhappy as I was as a user of MetaFilter, this is a bad characterization. "Read the room," as practiced on MF, means that you can't storm into a thread with your guns blazing and make it all about you and your viewpoint by responding to everyone else in the thread and dominate by sheer volume of comments. Make your viewpoint known, but don't keep insisting that it deserves a response from others. Basically, don't be the asshole party guest who barges in and demands to be the center of attention. Compared to the rest of the internet, that is the mildest imaginable social norm.
- sanitycheck 4y agoI thought that for a long time, until I actually posted a fairly normal (for Europe) opinion from outside the spectrum of US centre-left thought and had it instantly deleted. Then I realised what appeared to be an unusually well behaved internet community is (was?) probably just a very strictly policed echo chamber.
- mtVessel 4y agoLet's be honest - you're describing how it was in the before times. Once the most aggrieved people in the universe began holding sway, it devolved into a place where every thoughtful disagreement became a flashpoint.