please consider the humanity of your fellow forum goers

[Maxwell.]

needlessly hostile

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[Red Spy]

literally in a thread titled "please consider the humanity of your fellow forum goers"

I considered his humanity then realized he could unplug his keyboard

[SWAT One]

I'd actually like to see an official Badspot-branded decree of "no politics" for 3 days.  Would be interesting to see how it would turn out.

[TableSalt]

I'd actually like to see an official Badspot-branded decree of "no politics" for 3 days.  Would be interesting to see how it would turn out.

april 1st: everybody gets banned for mentioning politics

[Ragequit]

im gonna kill every single one of you if i dont see yall being nice to each other

[ultimamax]

fairly certain 10% of users are almost psychopaths and they don't really give a stuff about who's behind the keyboard

everyone else acts with a learned ruthlessness because positivity/civility is still often met with hostility

[Frequency]

i consider the humanity of others and recognize they aren't considering mine, so why bother lol

[The Resonte!]

everyone else acts with a learned ruthlessness because positivity/civility is still often met with hostility

its survival of the fittest out here

we purge the weak

[ultimamax]

i consider the humanity of others and recognize they aren't considering mine, so why bother lol

You should bother because the only way to fix the problem is for lots of people to go out of their way to recognize others' humanity, even when it only goes one way.

[Poliwhirl]

at some point it became impossible to fit in here unless you were hostile, which is especially obvious when you look at the way people treat young kids or newcomers. everybody feels like they gotta uphold some kinda tough guy act or else they'll get bullied by someone else trying to uphold a tough guy act.

honestly a big part of the problem here is probably the incredibly lenient rules. its just kind of human nature to try and push the limits of set rules, and the rarely enforced no flaming rule is pushed a lot, leading to conditions like this.

[IkeTheGeneric]

everybody feels like they gotta uphold some kinda tough guy act or else they'll get bullied by someone else trying to uphold a tough guy act.

This one really rings true. It's increasingly more awkward because of all the le prestige forum veterans who act like hot stuff just because they've been around longer than everyone else, and you get this with pretty much every online community. They're only relevant solely on the merit that they've been here forever and they aren't afraid to exploit the automatic credibility they get for it and come off as extremely jaded and misanthropic.

[ultimamax]

This one really rings true. It's increasingly more awkward because of all the le prestige forum veterans who act like hot stuff just because they've been around longer than everyone else, and you get this with pretty much every online community. They're only relevant solely on the merit that they've been here forever and they aren't afraid to exploit the automatic credibility they get for it and come off as extremely jaded and misanthropic.

its a funny image to think of 20-something guys being proud of their reputation among a bunch of teenagers

[Frequency]

You should bother because the only way to fix the problem is for lots of people to go out of their way to recognize others' humanity, even when it only goes one way.

actually, i should've written that in the past tense. i'm too tired and too busy to waste time arguing when i could be doing more productive or more entertaining things. getting riled up is a real waste of energy and there's really no true "satisfaction" from "winning" an "argument" anyway.

i'd rather just chill with you guys than stuff about politics these days

[Nix the Glaceon]

and here we see a thread about considering the humanity of your fellow forum goers devolving into an argument
isn't that something

[ultimamax]

actually, i should've written that in the past tense. i'm too tired and too busy to waste time arguing when i could be doing more productive or more entertaining things. getting riled up is a real waste of energy and there's really no true "satisfaction" from "winning" an "argument" anyway.

i'd rather just chill with you guys than stuff about politics these days

yeah trume i stopped going into politically charged threads for this reason basically