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> I think it is time for all status-chasers You're more or less just telling people they should socialize less. Get back to me once you've convinced people to

• shunyaekam 3y ago
  No, I'm saying that caring about VI vs Emacs is nothing else than high brow gatekeeping/in-group signaling.
  • _jal 3y ago
    You're right that it is in-group signaling[1]. But it is also socializing. Comparative-opinion jawboning passes time and serves as a social learning mechanism as well as an assortive signifier. That sort of thing is also, by volume, a huge fraction of interpersonal communication - much like gossip, it is a double-edged mechanism hard-wired into human behavior. Like I said, let me know when your utopia has eliminated assortive signaling about sports, tools, accents, clothes, art, food, housing, hairstyles, schools, employers, sex, shoes, religion, cars, text-messaging background colors, music, politics... all of which is far more pervasive, and some of which has historically escalated into literal wars. [1] I also personally agree that it is boring. I couldn't care less what editor people use unless they've configured it wrong in a way that messes up a repo I have to use, and even then only to the extent that I probably have to explain to them how to fix it.
• aleph_minus_one 3y ago
  > You're more or less just telling people they should socialize less. Which is in my opinion not a bad idea ;-) , but for many people getting rid of the habit of socializing is similarly hard as stopping smoking or stopping being an alcoholic.