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submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Truly a pretty terrible place for any kind of social activity.

People here are super self righteous and unwavering in their beliefs, quick to insult others and be generally bitchy, pedantic and quick to dogpile. Worst of all while still usually slightly wrong about a thing, but unwilling to hear it.

It's basically the worst parts of reddit users where we have boiled it down to the most affluent or socially insecure.

Even if it's as simple as a question people jump to defend their position with insults rather than answer it cause they get worried the person might be confused and it's best to just make sure it's a closed community as quick as possible.

This isn't an open community it's a private gated one where everyone jumped the fence and is scared that the wrong person might have come in with them.

Condescending is not welcoming.
Upvoting cause they are your in group isn't community.
Berating outcasts cause you at least don't feel like them is still bullying.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hm, they still said

If you weren’t trying to be rude and it came off that way by mistake, my bad

But yeah, not the best interaction indeed

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I was already upset by that point and they started by still doubting that I just wanted to ask a question and called me a bullshitter...

But it's my point. It makes conversations a fight to be right more than a conversation with no backing off. And by the end it just becomes 2 people being awful to each other for spectators.
It feels bad from my perspective and I don't learn anything.

I think the platform inspires snark and winner takes all mentality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think the platform inspires snark and winner takes all mentality.

It's really community dependant. As I said, tech communities can be quite toxic