We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by nchmy on Thursday January 22, 2026 @06:38AM (#46717931)

selfishness, laziness, lack of self-awareness, lack of shame, etc are obviously universal traits. But cultures absolutely reinforce them to different degrees. Many cultures around the world are built around the sorts of behaviors we both described.

Whereas other cultures have at least some (if not a lot of) resistance to it - eg publicly ridiculing when people step flagrantly out of line. This is good. My impression is that British culture is like this - "taking the piss", or worse, out of people whose egos start to get too large

Edit: what about this comment could possibly be worth a downvote...? Not that I care about points, but it just seems to be an objective assessment of human nature and cultures, without even singling out any cultures that need improvement.

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by Aeglaecia on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:02AM (#46718154)

people who actually have a life generally don't spend time hanging around internet forums so it's important to consider that a disconnection from reality is involved in places like these , thru my eyes you have restated the idea of low trust vs high trust societies without building on top of the idea , which isnt downvote worthy but isnt upvote worthy either

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by nchmy on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:45AM (#46718517)

I didn't expect up votes. I also wasn't about to write a treatise. And saying "low trust vs high trust societies" wouldn't be meaningful, nor would it actually be accurate. The issue here isn't trust - it's humility, integrity, conscientiousness, etc. Trust often comes along with such traits, but it's not the core issue.

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by kordlessagain on Thursday January 22, 2026 @06:57AM (#46718110)

Use proper grammar and syntax and read the guidelines. Also, not giving a shit what others think here helps.

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by nchmy on Thursday January 22, 2026 @06:59AM (#46718132)

What grammar and syntax was improper...?

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by nottorp on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:58AM (#46718657)

You don't sound like a LLM :)

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by ohyoutravel on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:51AM (#46718591)

Your grammar and syntax is fine for the medium and audience. I did downvote that post, somewhat ironically because you edited it to ask about someone else’s downvote. But otherwise carry on.

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