I’ll tell you what The Matrix is, it’s a state of being affected by the world (outside-in) instead of affecting the world (inside-out).
When you post, ask yourself this: What’s my intention with this, am I being constructive, or am I trying to boost myself at the expense of another.
The purpose of a forum is to connect to others who care about the same thing, have a ball, make suggestions, raise concerns, debate, and find solutions. Purpose is constructive and moves forward.
If you chase relevance in the forum, by taking every opportunity to complain without solutions, bicker, and boost your ego on others, I’m afraid you’re deep in the sheepdom of the matrix (by your own choice), just like millions of others all over the internet. Insecurity is destructive and bickers left and right.
Nobody needs to be a burn, but there’s a thin line between humor and insolence and if you find yourself struggling with this skill, refer back to the previous two paragraphs and be honest with yourself about whether you FEEL Purpose vs Insecurity (which you actually have no reason to feel) before you DO constructive vs destructive. We’re all human and nobody’s perfect, but c’mon, it’s working towards it that counts.
It’s this simple
sgt_KilLErpOny_CBT suggests something.
I have a few choices of types of possible responses
- I agree
- I agree to an extent, but maybe this is how we can tweak that Idea a bit
- My concern with that is this, so maybe…
- Fuck your aunty, you moron…
We can iterate on 1,2,3 and persist till we get to a conclusion, hell we can even throw in a bunch of jokes in between, or take a timeout when we get frustrated and come back later.
OR, we can drop number 4 in there at every opportunity.
Ask yourself this when you’re in a thread, is this helpful to the devs, will they find inspiration or see a trend towards a solution here, OR are they gonna see a slugfest and move right along, just because I chose to try and boost my ego by throwing in number 4 at every opportunity. I promise you, if it’s the latter, you’re gonna find yourself needing to do that more and more. This stuff is really not that esoteric but quite logical actually, because quite frankly if it’s a bicker fest, it becomes way too noisy and overwhelming and unpleasant to pay attention to.
Then you’ve taken away your own voice and the power of the forums, complaining more and more to no avail while you actually can’t blame the devs for not paying attention anymore or just referring back to it for comedy because it became so chaotic one can only cope by laughing.
Now if you want to say but “they don’t give a shit, they screwing us” ask yourself how many times have we iterated on that 1,2,3 first. And if objectively you feel we have, yes then screw it… but have we?
Toxic positivity is a thing too, where we don’t dare talk about a problem or we become the problem and the powers-that-be talk positive but f us over constantly because they don’t actually FEEL their purpose - those places exist but that doesn’t seem the case with this forum. If you find yourself in one of those places (whether work, forums, relationships), and you’ve absolutely tried but still believe it can’t change, well then get the hell out as soon as possible.
Let’s not screw it up by choosing to bicker at every chance, let’s check our intent before we get into the details. If you’re smart enough to read this, you’re awesome enough to solve problems!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKj4FA5EY5Q
I doubt I’d last long as a mod before od’ing on headache pills.
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Well, long as you guys try shouting in the same general direction not 50 different ones. Makes the sound that much stronger.