Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with

Re:Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with by matwood on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @04:29PM (#12914853)

> My conclusion from my recent experiences over the last year or so with the election and before (and volunteering/organizing volunteers therefor) is that people don't just need to communicate, we need to interact, and my observation is that this needs to happen (or at the very least works best) face to face.

I agree. People are much more civil face to face. It also helps in a disagreement to see body language and facial expressions. If I'm trying to argue a point and see someone getting visibly upset then I may change my tact or soften the moment for a bit. This is so much harder to do over the internet.

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Re:Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with by m_fayer on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:12PM (#12916303)

I agree. And as someone who works with telemedicine, I can say that even video pales in comparison to in person.

Our body language reading machinery is weak and ignorable when a person is reduced to a small 2 dimensional image, let alone text. And it's the signals that this machinery produces that trigger empathy. Without it, and especially when talking to strangers, it's easy to slip into a mild kind of psychopathy.

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Re:Show HN: Mest – Place to talk with those you disagree with by Brakenshire on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:53PM (#12922564)

Interesting way of putting it!

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