You can state an opinion without it coming off as arrogant and insulting to others.
#justsaying
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Then let this be a lesson that some people are, in fact, not capable of doing so.
It isnât more meant to be an insult than the claim that I am a troll or a contrarian.
I donât think anyone who disagrees with me is brainwashed, obviously. In many cases, Iâm sure that people just happen to be on the other side of the spectrum of ideas. But overall I think there is some truth in my point: a lot of people on the forums use the same wording to describe their ideas. And the same attitude. This means they have to take a very similar mindset (discord I assume). The amount of times I met someone I never discussed with using the same epithets that someone else used previously, or the amount of times the same arguments were reiterated by different people canât be a coincidence.
That is fine for me, provided someone doesnât actively advertise his list everyday and makes an effort to get everyone on the same page. That is something I take issue with, because we all know that itâs an attempt to exclude all the people the OP doesnât like for his sake, which is a bad move.
I think this happens a lot in the new forums. It is curious, because it didnât happen in the old forums - atleast not that I recall. In the end, I think the change has been somewhat recent.
That is a very arrogant choice of words.
I think I see a pattern: youâre excluding smart people to feel better with yourself?
Thats what happens when you live within a community. Typing/vocal patterns rub off over time. It doesnât make the people a hivemind, just part of a large group.
The better thing to do would be to drop the ongoing act that revolves around you continuing to perpetuate this apparent hatred for an entire community on the basis of one night of roleplay that happened to not go your way.
What exactly is it you gain from it? Do you find an enjoyment in the spiteful nature of it all? Do you feel wronged and, as such, continuing to slander and bash the community associated feels good? Iâm genuinely not quite sure, and it seems as if nobody else can find valid reasoning either.
Brigante, youâd have a far more enjoyable time - and one filled with a lot less situations such as these - if you were willing to simply agree that you acted very strangely and irrationally on the fateful night that the Red Death wandered over to the Alliance simply because you werenât happy with the outcome of roleplay on an OOC basis.
Continuing to stay faithful to this comic routine that I personally stopped finding funny a few weeks after the roleplay happened isnât going to hurt anybody other than you. Come back to reality, Brigante⌠itâs time to come backâŚ
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I donât think that itâs a healthy attitude going though all this just to ignore someone. Do they really matter that much in any way that people have to edit their browsers to dodge interaction or even a glance at disagreeable elements?
I guess Iâll never grasp it as I didnât ignore people even when I could.
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Aha, so you admit my evidence is incontrovertible truth!
My cunningly laid trap is sprung
Yes, but whereâs the fun in that?
I mean, youâd think people would be less butt-flustered by ironic ego-posting given that itâs Perroyâs favourite mode of discourse, but I suppose faith in the forums - and in forum-posters in general - is at a universal low
Teach me to stray from my well-trod path of erudite sincere-posting!
(that would have been arrogance, but itâs not arrogance when itâs true)
Irony of all kinds - verbal and situational - apparently lost on these literally-minded chaps
It depends on whatâs being expressed - people can use the same words/ patterns, but when theyâre repeating the same ideas, then I think at that point itâs fair to criticise the consensus as a âhivemindâ, especially if those ideas are regurgitated regardless of context - i.e, âdevilâs advocateâ, âcontrarianâ, etc.
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See, I donât find it that unusual that people who share a space, even virtually, would pick up idioms and means of speaking from their friends and peers. This is how slang happens, as a very basic example.
Neither do I find it strange that people may share their thoughts and feelings and find that others begin to appreciate their point of view, perhaps starting to share some parts of it.
As much as some in nerd culture like to believe they are on a seperated ethereal level of intellectual thought⌠we are a social creature, and we are still very âmonkey see, monkey doâ. All of us.
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It takes literally a minute.
It is essentially what a hivemind is meant to do: have everyone on the same page and with the same ideas.
Ultimately, this form of social groups are correlated with an inability to think critically.
Other than that, we have to add an (apparent) majority bias, which means that if there is one person disagreeing and five agreeing, people will be inclined to think that the second one is the correct option.
Edit.
I think sharing is different from agreeing without differentiating your ideas from other people. I recall discussing with you that one time you compared OOC presence to gentrification (it was you, right?) and I really liked that argument, in a way, because it felt genuinely new; something I hadnât seen before.
TLDR. You can share the same ideas and not be a drone.
Takes me about 15 seconds actually!
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I wouldnât say a lot of people using the same words or sharing the exact same statements, etc means that they are âAll connected to the hivemind as brainless dronesâ.
Mostly itâs just people who might feel a sense of kinship from the fact that as a group they use the same words or people from the same group echoing what has already been said if they donât want to/know how to put the same thing into words themselves, etc. Itâs basic tribalism. Has existed for so, so many years now.
Though personally I am a bit tired of the 2015 4chan memes being recycled like itâs aluminium can.
You say this, thenâŚ
you say pretty much the complete opposite in not-so-many words.
I can assure you that nobody is forced to download a proscribed set of opinions before heading out into the wild wastelands of the Argent Dawn forums, and infact I think what you have noticed is simply a large number of people arriving at the same conclusion due to the reasons I outlined above.
I donât think making 1x forum post mentioning a list of the usual suspects and letting people know they can contact him on discord if they want it themselves really counts as âactively advertisingâ or âmaking an effortâ.
See, this is exactly what I meant.
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I think people use the same words to feel a strong social cohesion etc, but these wording imply, most of the time, a somewhat acritical acceptance of other peopleâs principles.
I canât tell to which extent, but from what Iâve seen in the forums, itâs usually more than what people are aware of.
Sure, some people might think this way, especially if they are part of the same group/circles as the mentioned four people, but thereâs always the chance to not just completely flat-out ignore what the one person is saying either.
As someone who has been in the 1 v 4 situation quite often as the one person? Just make sure your spine isnât made out of papermash and youâll be fine with total strangers on the internet.
Seems that every meta topic these days will be taken over by non rpers / unsubbed pezheads
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His references to his gargantuan ego being real or not, Perroy also has the benefit of being genuinely laugh-out-loud funny.
Youâre making claims to these arrogant and snobby comments being some form of ironic wit, but honestly, you just donât have the comedic chops to do it.
Yes, that was me. Iâm glad you liked it. I still stand by it, of course, but this thread wonât be able to deal with the OOCer topic also arising.
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I donât get why youâd waste those 15 seconds on it, personally. 
Our world views and opinions differ. I just hope such a thing wonât have me blocked.
In the bigger picture, filter bubbles arenât healthy and I donât like what itâs likely to do to the server and communities over time.
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have you considered blocking features exist because there is a concept called harassment
ur lucky if u dont get harassed but when u have a presence in a community and people dont like u for it, itâs a near crucial feature
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The OP doesnt make any mention to blocking people for the purpose of avoiding harassment.
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