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kleinbl00  ·  3184 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lying to Myself // To the Small Town of Hubski

I have every expectation that it will make me look GREAT.

not.

Seriously, though - there's this bizarre phenomenon that happens when people navigate from a big website to a small one. The big website discourse is generally "I HAVE AN OPINION!" "I disagree with your opinion." "YOU ARE AN ASSCAMEL!" "DIAFN00B!" the end. The small website discourse goes "I HAVE AN OPINION!" "I disagree with your opinion." "YOU ARE AN ASSCAMEL!" "Uhm... this isn't how I choose to spend my time. Good day." ...which leaves the transplant grasping for combat because they just aren't sure what to do, so they decide that the problem was Teh Dramaz wasn't big enough so they double down.

Most of them go away after a week or so; the fact that Hubski is a lousy place for flame wars leaves a certain segment of the internet completely at sea. But before they get there, we're left dealing with a group of people that simply don't know how to de-escalate an argument.