My NEW thoughts on discussions on wasteof
Now that I’m actually in one, I can see what I forgot to mention, which is two things:
The repetition. I joked about it a bit in my post joking about imadeanaccount’s definition of “constructiveness”. My definition is anything that adds on to any form of communication, whether a discussion, a joke, a game in the case of the TBGs. Repetition in a discussion isn’t constructive. It doesn’t even have to be the same user, I remember seeing a few users back then who blatantly just went with whatever their favorite “side” said. Even the side I was on did this and I hated every second of it. This is much better but still present in recent times (for one, I don’t see the favorite side thing anymore, separate people are seperate people again :D)
The sheer amount of posts. This is only made worse by the repetition. Going back to the favorite “side” thing, you can imagine what it’s like for the same 3 people to say the same thing, and then repost each other’s post saying the thing in agreement. I’m glad that’s over. But even still, the posts are way too much. Repost chains are one thing, but they usually contain short amounts of text. Discussions have to actually mean something (or, for some people, at least look like they do). And that’s why I favor comments for actual substantial discussion over reposts.
My thoughts on discussions on wasteof
For this one I decided the wasteof formatting would be too restrictive for how I wanted to convey things here, so I put the thing here instead:
https://tbgforums.com/forums/index.php?msg=718213
I forgot that TBG links do weird things, so you’ll have to open it twice for it to work properly
List of things that aren’t constructive
You know what, since I’ve made a post specifically targeting dert, why not dean too?
Singular posts (an isolated thought isn’t a conversation)
Empty reposts (the tiktok guy pointing his finger at the video isn’t a conversation)
Actually, just support without nuance in general (the child saying “support” with no further discussion in the Suggestions thread might be a conversation technically but it definitely isn’t constructive)
Making several reposts saying things that you have already said in comments (do I need to explain this one)
And this time I won’t forget that pinging exists! @imadeanaccount
“Annoying to scroll past”
Ah, the irony of people saying repost chains are annoying to scroll past and then reposting others’ posts (which themselves are long and reposts of other long posts) to disagree with them instead of commenting.
don’t do that, but making new chains from posts telling you not to do that is fine
it makes it more annoying. so don’t do that
try not to fork the chain pls. it makes it more annoying
edit: if you’re confused, the original post said this:
hey guys repost chain this time copy the last sentence and add another one to continue it (if that makes sense)
try not to fork the chain pls
Nighty morning, Feb 21
This nighty morning is probably going to be fine
Also I remembered the sentence “Of course it’s impossible, I’ve already done it” again
Fake
This is fake, I wouldn’t leave the fridge door open (the nonexistent cat would get into the fridge)
Me at 3AM watching you eat Chredded Sheese out of the bag with the fridge door open
Nighty Morning Feb. 18
Just got the oyhr bzrtn xrl (rot13) in https://lawatson.itch.io/i-wanna-lockpick
I keep forgetting to add headers
Infinite Craft: The Sequel
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