I just like that I can post an honest comment and not worry about being Well-Ackshually’d to death. Sometimes I’d be knee-deep in Wikipedia fact-checking and suddenly realize, “This reddit reply is not worth the personal effort I am putting into it.”
Well actually (;D), that can happen here… unfortunately.
But I get what you’re saying. Lemmy is still small enough that conversations are more about talking to another person rather than being a performative thing for everyone else in a large subreddit.
Yesterday someone demanded me to give dates on when Global Warming would start causing increases in food prices and so I was on wikipedia and checking sources… and why an I doing this shit?
So it still happens but it does seem less frequent here.
As a professional “Ackshually”-er, a lot of us don’t do it to demean others but just to genuinely spread the knowledge. There’s some asses who do it just to feel superior, sure, but don’t get demoralized because someone pointed out a minor mistake or inaccuracy: it’s just an opportunity to learn more stuff.
Well, it’s the internet, you can’t fully convey intentions through text alone and there is actually a subset of people that do point out errors just to stroke their ego (or worse, they’re confidently wrong about their sources and are talking out of their ass). I do wish that people would be more accepting of factchecking and similia (grammar errors are something that you absolutely can’t point out without being lynched, and that makes me livid), but I can’t really blame them too much when they aren’t.
Absolutely same sentiment here. There’s a couple of those dudes starting to pop up the last couple of days no matter how good your sources are, but certainly less convinced of their own intellectual superiority here so far. Maybe not having 200,000 hivemind karma has humbled them?
Right?! Like, posting a reply that’s a legitimate correction is fine, whatever. But people constantly post slight technicality corrections (that are usually 75% of the time incorrect or misleading) on reddit. It’s so annoying especially when you’ve been on reddit long enough that you can tell from a parent comment when people are gonna “well actually” and exactly what they’re gonna say because it’s all been said 200x before.
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I just like that I can post an honest comment and not worry about being Well-Ackshually’d to death. Sometimes I’d be knee-deep in Wikipedia fact-checking and suddenly realize, “This reddit reply is not worth the personal effort I am putting into it.”
Well actually (;D), that can happen here… unfortunately.
But I get what you’re saying. Lemmy is still small enough that conversations are more about talking to another person rather than being a performative thing for everyone else in a large subreddit.
Yesterday someone demanded me to give dates on when Global Warming would start causing increases in food prices and so I was on wikipedia and checking sources… and why an I doing this shit?
So it still happens but it does seem less frequent here.
As a professional “Ackshually”-er, a lot of us don’t do it to demean others but just to genuinely spread the knowledge. There’s some asses who do it just to feel superior, sure, but don’t get demoralized because someone pointed out a minor mistake or inaccuracy: it’s just an opportunity to learn more stuff.
There is no reason to let falsehoods uncorrected, it’s a shame people can’t read intentions properly and get annoyed.
Well, it’s the internet, you can’t fully convey intentions through text alone and there is actually a subset of people that do point out errors just to stroke their ego (or worse, they’re confidently wrong about their sources and are talking out of their ass). I do wish that people would be more accepting of factchecking and similia (grammar errors are something that you absolutely can’t point out without being lynched, and that makes me livid), but I can’t really blame them too much when they aren’t.
Agreed.
Absolutely same sentiment here. There’s a couple of those dudes starting to pop up the last couple of days no matter how good your sources are, but certainly less convinced of their own intellectual superiority here so far. Maybe not having 200,000 hivemind karma has humbled them?
Right?! Like, posting a reply that’s a legitimate correction is fine, whatever. But people constantly post slight technicality corrections (that are usually 75% of the time incorrect or misleading) on reddit. It’s so annoying especially when you’ve been on reddit long enough that you can tell from a parent comment when people are gonna “well actually” and exactly what they’re gonna say because it’s all been said 200x before.
/rant lol