Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by kentor on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:22AM (#13528489)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by grzm on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:43AM (#13528560)

Do you have something substantive to add besides posting the Wikipedia link? One could uncharitably interpret your comment as virtue signaling in and of itself.

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by phy6 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:09AM (#13528676)

I found it useful, I forgot what the term was and wanted to look it up.

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by tommorris on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:20AM (#13551070)

Meta-virtue signalling: signalling that you are smarter and better informed by everyone else by dismissing anything anybody else does, however well intentioned, as mere virtue signalling.

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Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “Del... by grzm on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:26AM (#13551726)

dismissing anything anybody else does, however well intentioned, as mere virtue signalling

Indeed. I think you've underscored exactly why calling out virtue signaling is so unhelpful for productive discourse.

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