Re:The social obligation to be bad at things
by nullc on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:27PM
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> Having someone who makes nothing and shares nothing log on to tell you how you should have done things differently is unwanted and not at all useful.
What is especially frustrating is that inevitably 99% of such comments are also ideas that you had in your first seconds of thought on the subject, but discarded for good reason by the end of the first minute after thinking it through.
None of the people commenting gave it a minute of thought.
If the under-informed comments were at least kind that would be something else, but often they are not.
Sometimes a lovely conversation can arise from sharing your insight but you can't tell when instead of finding joy at a shared interest you'll find someone who just wants to debate and win at all cost, where their toy misunderstanding is the hill they want to die on. ... so you don't bother.
What is especially frustrating is that inevitably 99% of such comments are also ideas that you had in your first seconds of thought on the subject, but discarded for good reason by the end of the first minute after thinking it through.
None of the people commenting gave it a minute of thought.
If the under-informed comments were at least kind that would be something else, but often they are not.
Sometimes a lovely conversation can arise from sharing your insight but you can't tell when instead of finding joy at a shared interest you'll find someone who just wants to debate and win at all cost, where their toy misunderstanding is the hill they want to die on. ... so you don't bother.