Or maybe she is a few hardworking MSS agents keeping an eye on the internet. We wouldn't want the latest updates from secret Chinese military projects leaking on the internet undetected now, would we comrade?
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That's a great thesis man.
But then you wrote an entire essay on the same "silly" subject?
You realize that your wordcount is literally the highest on this thread now, yea?
That indicates you're the most concerned about this "silly" subject.
When you have forum members singling out fellow members like some sort of witch hunt, mocking/ridiculing them for their emoji habits when they've done nothing to breach forum rules, yet they apparently deserve your ire/annoyance because the way they interact amounts to, and I'm paraphrasing: "a usefulness less than that of a bot".
There's a word for that type of behaviour, it's called 'bullying'. You've only now demonstrated to me as someone who's keen to partake in it when all you seem to care about is reducing the matter to what you must think as witty comebacks and choosing instead to bicker in what I would describe as a 'silly' fashion but it would be a disservice to the word, that have no place on a board such as this, or any board for that matter.
Of course I'm concerned, so should anybody with a lick of common sense and decency.
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There's also a word for what you're doing:
You've basically ignored all the reasoning on the actual issue and reduced it to a single forum member, who is irrelevant to the actual discussion. The real issue here (relevant for every public space) is reduction of discussion to thought-silos, driven by reactions.
This is not a trivial or "silly" issue. Watch the documentary "The Social Dilemma". Did you know that the "like" button (and such reactions) are created to purposefully generate "dopamine hits"? This is a population control mechanism, which is why I called it a "herd tactic".
The actual discussion is about how to optimize the space for genuine discussion, and not polarized thought-silos where people are chasing dopamine-hits with twitter-logic. This is what the first post of mine to the OP on this thread was about.
You ignored all of that, and are instead laser focused on me "bullying" someone. That is the definition of white knighting.
Sure I do. As long as we're talking about the actual issue.
Alright I think we've had enough discussion about emojis for now, especially when it comes to Loveleenkr's behaviour. This behaviour was also discussed in the moderation team previously, and we did not deem it a breech of our forum rules. His/her behaviour neither contributed to off-topic nor offensive posts and does not lower the quality of this forum's discussions overall.
I'm locking this thread before it turns into an ugly argument.
I'm locking this thread before it turns into an ugly argument.
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