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"I would qualify this type of online comment as infohazard." That's a very strange way to say "I disagree with this advise."

• hcks 4y ago
  No, it’s a way to react to the tone of the advice. There is a whole genre of « internet advice » (such that: don’t go to college, study a trade, community college is better than regular college) that are repeated by people for many reasons (such as personal cope, political agenda) that don’t include what’s best for the listener.
  • anotherman554 4y ago
    To be clear, I was just commenting on your use of the word "infohazard". The fact that you used that neologism distracted me from the point you were trying to make because I was wondering what your use of this neologism signaled about you.
  • _jal 4y ago
    > There is a whole genre of « internet advice » that don’t include what’s best for the listener. That's just called "advice". The internet just makes bad advice globally addressable.
  • JoshuaDavid 4y ago
    The term "infohazard", as I've seen it used, implies something where the information is true but harmful. If John tells me the bus is scheduled to come at 3:00 pm but the bus actually is scheduled to come at 2:55, that is incorrect in a way which harms me, but it is not an infohazard.