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| ebastler:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on September 07, 2023, 07:51:34 am ---While I understand avoiding anything that even resembles "doxxing", I think such information could be useful in this context. --- End quote --- No. Just no. What purpose would it serve, except to satisfy some users' curiosity and voyeurism? Faringdon/Treez is for real; he has been in the industry for a couple of decades; he has indeed worked a large number of jobs (whether as an employee or a contractor). I don't see why anybody would need more context here. |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on September 07, 2023, 11:13:07 am ---It is also quite sad. In forums like this one, others do not react to you as a person; they only react to what you have written. Even when there is hostility and ridicule, it is not really personal, it cannot be; it can only be directed towards what has been written. Changing the details of how one communicates is not too difficult. Some traits, like me with my excess verbosity, can be difficult to get rid of, but when you understand that your output has details that rile up others, you can deal with it, and occasionally even change those details, so your output causes less discord. (Pun intended.) Becoming bitter, and trolling when others –– like myself; check our interaction history, Faringdon! –– are only trying to help you and those in the same position, is waste of energy, and more likely to drown yourself in depression and insecurity than do anything positive for anyone, even yourself. The funky thing is, you can always just change directions, change details of how you communicate, and you'll be welcomed back to interact with others. Think about that for a moment, and reflect on what that means about your (general plural you, meaning "all of us members on this forum") own interactions with others. You can always simply choose to interact in a mutually beneficial way, and do it. (Okay, sometimes we all fail, but all that is necessary is a Mea culpa, sorry: I misunderstood/miscommunicated and go on.) Even if you vehemently disagree with some others about some specific detail, it is not a big thing. It is perfectly okay to argue with them about that in one thread, and in another –– even concurrently –– have a very nice agreement on another. This is how we evolve our understanding, by finding out the reasons why we disagree through discussions, and continually evaluate those reasons comparing them to our own, and therefore also evolving our opinions as our understanding increases. Nobody is "ready", and everyone is still learning. I myself am a complete bumbler hobbyist on the electronics side, a very beginner/novice in circuit design and such, while I've got quite a lot of experience in other areas like certain facets of programming. I've even described how my own choices and refusal to give up (and even recognize the unhealthy obsessive attitude toward work I had), worked in socially unhealthy places, and didn't really learn how to correctly focus on the important parts of work, nor how to balance work and social life, and burned up –– twice, or three times, depending on how you count –– and ended up with apparently permanent neurological issues and recurrent depression I'm still trying to do something about. (Such things cannot be "fixed" with pills, but one can learn how to work around such issues, and have a fulfilling life and work, I believe.) So, if anyone is trolling here, they're like the idiot who interrupts a public lecture on an important new findings in science/technology, in order to "punish" one of the organizers they have a beef with. They're only making themselves look like a colossal assshole, and annoy everyone else there who are just trying to learn and help others. Think of the lost opportunity for learning – not for that one idiot, but for others as well, if they only had been honest and discussed whatever problems/difficulties they have. There are about 8 billion people on this planet, and it is basically statistically guaranteed that several of them have similar problems, so why not utilize that and explore the possible solutions for those difficulties, instead of wasting time? Like I started with, it is sad, in the depressing kind of way. --- End quote --- Thanks, that is a very nice and insightful post! I think some people get a big kick (psychological enjoyment), out of trolling and some other types of (bad) forum behaviour. Perhaps amplified by the relatively anonymous (impersonal) nature of the internet. This anonymity, can empower people to act and do things online, they wouldn't dare do, in real life, face to face, situations. Although, what you rightly pointed out, that from a practical (logical, Mr Spock type of) point of view, what they are doing is a silly waste of everyone's time. In practice, this psychological kick, high or brain Dopamine hit. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/dopamine Can give some people, incentive, to keep on doing it. Maybe why the advice is to totally ignore trolls and trolling, then they don't get their buzz out of it, which hopefully results in them stopping the annoying behaviour. But in this case, they seem to just about always get responses, how ever bad, they seem to be acting. Infact, it seems to be, their bad behaviour, actually increases the number of responses and interest in their threads. |
| jpanhalt:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on September 07, 2023, 11:13:07 am ---Some traits, like me with my excess verbosity, can be difficult to get rid of ... --- End quote --- I admire anyone who can write with such agility. :) Over many decades, my time averaged 1h per double-spaced legal pad which converted to 2 hours per double-spaced typewritten text. That was when I had a secretary/assistant to keyboard my scribbles. Now that I do my own keyboarding, I probably don't even meet that benchmark. |
| armandine2:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on September 07, 2023, 08:55:44 am ---There is also a Faringdon between Swindon and Oxford. Nice little country town centre :) --- End quote --- Good beer country short of fire fighters? |
| Gyro:
Unfortunately that isn't the one. He just misspelled the other one. I'm sure it has pubs though. |
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