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Re: Negative comments

#11
The negativity of the internet bothers me as well. Somewhat amusingly, I find it is often difficult to express agreement with someone without confusing them, there seems to be an assumption that if you are replying to someone you are probably disagreeing with them.

Despite feeling this way, any time I go back and read my own recent comment history, I am shocked to find that most of my comments are still corrections/disagreements.

Re: Negative comments

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post #3

Critical thinking is overrated, constructive thinking is underrated. Too many turn into critics rather than creators because saying to the world "this is what I stand for, this is what I created" is so much harder than to simply tear someone elses down. The US is actually much better than Europe but unfortunately academic disciplines and craftmanship are mostly separated in the education system when they should never…

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the d…

Thank you for sharing this. It's arguably one of the most inspiring quotes I have encountered.

Re: Negative comments

#14
post #5

The article is completely wrong. There's hardly any negativity on the Internet at all, and none of it comes from our training.

Your comment is worthless without at least one footnote with a link to a published study.

Re: Negative comments

#15
post #5

The article is completely wrong. There's hardly any negativity on the Internet at all, and none of it comes from our training.

Your comment is worthless without at least one footnote with a link to a published study.

In this case, academic research is totally irrelevant to the parent commenter's point.

Re: Negative comments

#16

The negativity of the internet bothers me as well. Somewhat amusingly, I find it is often difficult to express agreement with someone without confusing them, there seems to be an assumption that if you are replying to someone you are probably disagreeing with them. Despite feeling this way, any time I go back and read my own recent comment history, I am shocked to find that most of my comments are still corrections/d…

I am in the habit of persistently deleting comments. Sometimes my disagreements are just one half of a conversation I should be having in my head, alone.

Re: Negative comments

#17
Another factor: people with negative moods have marginally more time to comment, and more need for the affirmation of quick-reactions (positive or negative) – feeding a cycle of adverse selection on the most-active threads.

Re: Negative comments

#18
post #3

Critical thinking is overrated, constructive thinking is underrated. Too many turn into critics rather than creators because saying to the world "this is what I stand for, this is what I created" is so much harder than to simply tear someone elses down. The US is actually much better than Europe but unfortunately academic disciplines and craftmanship are mostly separated in the education system when they should never…

Creation is overrated: Sturgeon's law applies to almost everything (and perhaps undercounts). The most important part of creation is criticism: until you learn how to edit and kill your babies, you won't write anything more than a sentence worth shit. Similar applies to programming. Of course, learning these skills requires writing and programming a lot (for most people: there may be some prodigies).

Re: Negative comments

#19

The negativity of the internet bothers me as well. Somewhat amusingly, I find it is often difficult to express agreement with someone without confusing them, there seems to be an assumption that if you are replying to someone you are probably disagreeing with them. Despite feeling this way, any time I go back and read my own recent comment history, I am shocked to find that most of my comments are still corrections/d…

Why not start your comment, "Hello. I agree with your points. I'd also like to add ..."?

Re: Negative comments

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment is worthless without at least one footnote with a link to a published study.

In this case, academic research is totally irrelevant to the parent commenter's point.

I've seen countless instances where an anecdote is perfectly reasonable and interesting by itself, yet the anecdote itself is denigrated or at least devalued. [1] I don't like it. I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to have research at arms length in the general case.

1. I say this anecdotally, of course.

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