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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by TeMPOraL on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:29PM (#25876575)
What's up with this modern trend of quoting stuff and adding an unrelated but currently in vogue ad-hominem?
Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by spiritplumber on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:52PM (#25876739)
/pol/ is leaking.
Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by ALittleLight on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:13PM (#25878104)
There has got to be a better way to provide feedback or criticism than just insults like this. Imagine that someone who identifies with what was written reads what you wrote, how would they feel? How would that contribute to constructive discussion? I think it would be more likely to promote flamewars, bad feelings, and general conversational degeneracy.

I think a better comment would isolate what you think is wrong and explain why you think so. Ideally, I think that could be done without referencing the frequency with which people you disagree with have sex.

Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by serf on Friday January 22, 2021 @11:19PM (#25879604)
>God this is some top tier incel shit.

if you're going to shit on someone and their opinion at least give them the data they need to remediate the situation that you're unhappy about.

The author can't just say to themselves "Oh, apparently someone on the internet thinks that i'm acting too 'incel', let me just tune that down for the next essay." -- incel is too vague to pin down societies meaning of at any given time.

It's like booing someone off stage; it's rude and utterly useless except to express dismay.

It's about as useful to discourse as just saying "tl;dr 0/10"

Experiment i've been having fun with during the recent over-loaded word trend: Any time I hear 'cuck', 'beta', 'incel', or 'based' I ask the person to define it with context to how they used it.

So, my question : What did you mean? Can you define your usage of incel? What about the person made you relate them to the word?

Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by ricohboy on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:30PM (#25875989)
Have you ever worked in an IT support position? It’s stunningly common and accurate
Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by Frost1x on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:36PM (#25875365)
Probably, but I'd say it's not far off from reality for many behavior and perspective wise. I think it unnecessarily transfers the behavior to misogyny (could easily be anyone/any sex), but that's the perspective many hold for those in tech: a means to an end. The addition of sex in the description definitely wasn't needed.
Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by Evidlo on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:36PM (#25876042)
I think the guy is married with kids.