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For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers.

Whenever every 'What's the worst show you've seen?' is asked, you'll get 10,000 "Kardashians" answers, which is just easy karma farming.

If someone posts in a community that's geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably the biggest one would be needlessly hostile or mocking responses.

[–] paf0 17 points 1 year ago

Wow, this was my first thought as well. I wonder if it would help to have an etiquette manual with examples of how to disagree respectfully.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 1 year ago

Yep. Just blocked someone for that. I will not put up with that behavior here.

[–] madcaesar 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sometimes it's so hard though... It's hard to find posts that are just slightly disagreeing... It's always some asshole talking absolute bullshit or minimizing other people's suffering.... It's really hard to respectfully disagree with someone who says vile shit.

[–] ccunning 13 points 1 year ago

It’s really hard to respectfully disagree with someone who says vile shit.

Those are called trolls; you’re not supposed to feed them (before or after midnight).

Downvote and move on…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well, I did say needlessly hostile. I definitely didn't mean that you should treat actually vile people with velvet gloves.

I'm talking more about the overall culture on Reddit where you'd have someone making some innocuous mistake and getting torn into it for it.

Although, yeah, that does also extend to general disagreements that tend to take on raised hairs where it really isn't warranted. Like, just of the top of my head, what happens whenever someone discusses the viability of nuclear power.

[–] aidan 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you should change your mentality. Imo, most people want to do good, most people are average intelligence, and most people are about average informed. I'm not extraordinary- so when I disagree with someone I'm recognizing that they probably genuinely want good, they probably know as much as me, and they probably are as smart as me, yet they disagree. Maybe one of us is lacking information, or maybe they have a different philosophy than me. And I can accept that and think they're wrong without jumping to them being a bad person. Basically, being wrong isn't evil- and I don't determine what is right anyways.

[–] Koordinator_O 2 points 1 year ago

That's a nice attitude. Many discussions would benefit from more people strive for something like that.