The term is fine, but the internet has a bad habit of taking some catchy and overusing it to death, most of the time incorrectly. Then when you point it out to them "lol bro, it's not that deep, why are you getting upset about words".
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Why is ERA so particularly angry this 2019?
- Thread starter Mr. Fantastic
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Duuude
Literally if you have 27 posts since Oct 27th but manage to show up to say obvious obtuse shit in "controversal" topics. It's pretty obvious what the score is.
Like come on.
I hear ya though, people with nearly 30,000 posts are super freaks.
I'd say it's a big problem if people actually believe you need to actively post frequently on a forum to have a valid opinion. Maybe people just read threads, and post something once in a while? To me that's healthy behaviour. I'd be far more skeptical of people how have an average count of dozens of posts every day.
If the person in question has a history of trolling, fine, but if you're pulling post count just to discredit someone because you have nothing better to bring to the table, you should do the clever thing instead, and say nothing.
I can't say I understand the ban there? They say he knows what he's doing, he says he doesn't.
So what was he doing? Because I have no idea, and this actually brings up a problem I have with Era. It seems like you're expected to know inherently every single meme or "thing" that's going on at any given point. I see so many times a bunch of people telling someone else to stop with a line of reasoning, claiming "he knows what he's doing", while the "offender" acts all baffled and ignorant. And I tend to feel equally perplexed to how the offender is behaving. As in, I have no idea what's going on.
And this makes Era feel like a complete minefield at times. I don't have the time, nor do I care, to keep up with all the flavors of the day. It's simply not something I find any sense in bothering with. I assume a lot of people are the same uneducated way about what the latest thing is. Yet, if you participate in a discussion, you're treated like a bigot asshole if you say something that might be of a similar phrasing to something someone somewhere recently decided is bad. You're supposed to know this of course, and you're an asshole, because "you know what you're doing".
I don't, honestly, I have no idea. So please tell me instead of repeating "you know what you're doing".
I feel like I'm surrounded by hormonal, angry teenagers at times.
If the majority of those 27 posts are trash then i'm not gonna complain about posters calling them out.
Era loves to point out it's hate boner for anime avatars. Still don't get what that's about.
I don't mean any disrespect by this because I can tell you're being genuine here, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Yeah, what you're saying here sounds great in a vacuum, but it's crucially missing a lot of context. It ignores the specifics of a given thread and the arguments therein. It assumes that people don't first try to reason with low post count trolls. It assumes that we're not aware of the difference between genuine questions and time-worn dog whistles. It assumes that the "better thing to bring to the table" hasn't already been brought, probably dozens of times in that thread already.
Thank you.
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