> If you don’t adhere to the guidelines we’ll send mean and angry emails to dang.
That’s so weird, you’re on! That makes two of us! When I don’t adhere to the guidelines, I also send mean and angry emails to dang. Apologies in advance, dang.
I would like to report an instance of heavy Baader-Meinhof as just yesterday I randomly wondered how many cuils are actually genuinely achievable in simple text and it's two at most IMO.
Another article where discussion is engineered. If the article is in any way provoking you to question it in any way and to go down those rabbit holes with preconceived talking points, it’s by design. It’s getting tiresome reading articles where comment sections write themselves.
I'm not an expert on the topic of OCD, what makes this 'bait'?
It's a bit long-winded and flowery for my taste, but otherwise OK?
I guess what I took away from it is that the underlying low-level biological causes of high-level behavioral problems is a very, very hard (ie: impossible) problem to solve with current technology. Like trying to debug a massive simulator that was written by randomly flipping bits until things worked, and has no manual, using only a hex editor.
That and despite current instances of it manifesting about modern things (phones, germs, whatever) OCD has likely existed for a very long time and just happens to 'cling' to something specific in a given person.
FWIW one of my rules is to instantly close any article that starts with an anecdote/story like that. It's hard to explain, but it's an easy way to know that they're more interested in manipulating/influencing you into believing their point rather than proving their point with facts/logic/argument. They'd rather tell fanciful stories instead.
You still haven't really explained anything. What discussion points are engineered, and in what way are they engineered? What specifically do you have a problem with? If you don't explain your reasoning, why comment at all?
I’m of the opinion there’s very little (not nothing) wrong with social media, and a whole lot wrong with people. Kids are just seeing how fucked up humans are earlier than we did and they realize early on they’re trapped in this shitbox with us.
But yes, let’s blame class warfare and rampant corruption on social media. That’ll fix it, lads.
Empty comment from me but thank you for being more nuanced than most about what constitutes an addiction. It’s tiring to listen to the HN wringing in some performance of outrage of who can be the most offended yet least affected by the article.
(The moderator(s) are praised endlessly but have done a terrible job of steering the community. They’ve merely shut out voices that were the loudest and most disagreeable, a phyrric victory at best)
