Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
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Re: Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
#2Did you know the background of unherd? If you did you might not have regard for this.
Re: Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
#3Did you know the background of unherd? If you did you might not have regard for this.
I don't know the background - tell me more.
Also, your comment comes across as an ad hominem attack, not sure if I'm just misreading it though.
Re: Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
#4Did you know the background of unherd? If you did you might not have regard for this.
The article isn't a study or something that needs institutional credibility, it's just an opinion piece. Anyone interested can just read it and decide what they think of it.
Re: Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
#5Did you know the background of unherd? If you did you might not have regard for this.
People are capable on judging an argument on its own merits. After all, if you don't think HN readers possess that capability, why bother associating with the commentariat on this website?
Re: Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
#6Relevant classic post: Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People, https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
^ previously on HN twice, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881827 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25600274
Re: Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
#7Did you know the background of unherd? If you did you might not have regard for this.
I Googled it and wasn’t able to find anything terribly interesting. From a brief look at the Wikipedia page I can’t find anything unusual, other than the most recent vandalism:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/102963491...
... which isn’t exactly terribly substantiated on its own.
Furthermore, unless this opinion piece is demonstrably in bad faith I dunno why that would detract from viewing it in a fair light.
Re: Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
#8Did you know the background of unherd? If you did you might not have regard for this.
People are capable on judging an argument on its own merits. After all, if you don't think HN readers possess that capability, why bother associating with the commentariat on this website?
A sizable number are never going to read the article or judge its merits. Instead they'll click an arrow based on whether the title matches their biases. "Yup, people I don't like have psychological issues..."
For the few that might it is generally worth knowing whether it's actually worth the time. If the writer is someone considered and knowledgeable, on a credible venue, for instance. I know nothing about this site/writer so I'm not commenting on that, but generally that is an input before one spends the time on an essay.
Re: Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
#9>About 70% of DID patients are also diagnosed with BPD, and the two conditions are often considered part of the same spectrum.
>I’m certainly not saying that all trans people have personality disorders or that being trans is a mental illness.
A little bit of whiplash on this one. Despite the sentence or two claiming what the author is purportedly not doing, the rest of the article seems to indicate otherwise. If you don't want an article that makes you look like you're conflating trans people and mental illness... don't use a trans person as a springboard to talk about mental illness.
Re: Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
#10This is one of the main reasons I feel like the current culture of never disagreeing with anyone so you can never possibly offend anyone is ultimately toxic.
As a person with (currently treated and doing fine) psychological issues I don’t expect any single comment to get through to you, but if there are never any negative indicators that you are the problem, rather than everyone else… there is a mathematically insignificant chance you will ever realize something might be wrong.
Particularly so in the case of the unfortunate stereotype of lonely loser who lives in his mother’s basement and spends all his time on the computer.