pretty much this.
This is such a worthless, contentless comment -- something I'd expect to see on reddit. If you don't have anything other to say than "yup", why comment at all?
hehe :) actually on further thoughtful reflection maybe we can use this for a teaching moment. I read Emily Post as a child. (I have always had a hard time understanding the customs and habits of my fellowman and etiquette books gave me guidelines to pretend to be normal) Well anyway Ms Post said something that has stuck with me to this day (I still can't remember which side the salad fork goes) She said when catching someone in a breach of etiquette is impolite to point it out. I think her example was someone eating chicken with their fingers. Her suggestion to a gracious hostess was not to call them out or even to take them aside and correct them but instead to eat the chicken with their own fingers as not embarrass them. Simply put it is ruder to point out the rudeness in others than to accidentally make a faux pas
Yeah, except Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism.
I don't know if less-wrong is the place to go to learn to be polite. I don't think that Yudkowsky plea to enlightened fascism is the best strategy. Anyhow there is a ban hammer here and it is egalitarian unfollow, ignore and don't share.
I think also don't engage if someone sez something dumb let it slide it invariably ends up on the bottom of the comments.
Oh, I don't know. I avoid politics on reddit. How about Bruce Lee? Because he was a badass and a philosopher. Or, at least he was a philosophy student. Edit: I am not implying that you are a fool.“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”