lots of people type similar. in fact, many people type in all lowercase such as myself. you don’t know who someone is behind the screen. you don’t know someone’s identity from their typing style.
why do you think No Stupid Questions exists in the first place?? why do you think people ask for help/advice?? if they’re not going around saying rude/absurd crap or anything to get a reaction, it could just be someone with a weird question.
just because someone types similar to someone who was a troll or bad person does not mean that it’s their alt or that they are the same person.
i see this a lot with people assuming that account c is an alt account because account c and account a agree and disagree with account b, or because account b said something rude to account a and account c explained/defended account a. yeah, people can agree on something without being the same person.
if your comment gets -3 votes, it’s unlikely that 3 alts downvoted you, you just said something people disagree with.
I get accused of being a troll a lot. The reality is that I am a part-time troll, however I only seem to get called a troll when I’m actually not trolling. Either this means I’m very successful at trolling, or I’m very unsuccessful at having normally perceived discourse, or perhaps even both.
i’m typing all lowercase with my left while i’m brushing my teeth. like rn 🙂
Just saw a thread of people that think it’s a mods job to shut down arguments. Period. Full stop.
That is not what a moderators job is. They are meant to moderate; meaning you keep the argument going as long as it doesn’t devolve into name-calling and mud-slinging. Your job is to keep the conversation civil and on-topic.
If you think it is anything other than that: You should not be a fucking moderator. If you can’t keep your personal biases to yourself or not just have knee-jerk reactions to everything: you should not be a fucking moderator.
I do not believe I am neurodiverse, but I do know that neurodiverse people struggle with this as well. I don’t think anyone should be ridiculed like that for asking a question in good faith. It can be hard to tell at first glance if there is good faith, that’s why you should give them the benefit of the doubt. I struggle too because sometimes our own bs from life gets in the way, but we should be nicer to people who haven’t done anything wrong. And asking a question in NoStupidQuestions is not wrong.
I have a habit of being a sarcastic dickhead to people who I think are missing something obvious, or who I highly suspect of being a troll or other type of dishonest user account.
I decided to try, for a while, holding back on that. I would just explain why I disagreed with people, or why I thought their argument was terribly flawed, without needing to add any snark or rudeness to it. I was amazed at how much more productive the messages and conversations were. It sounds obvious in retrospect, but I somehow thought that the delivery would lose something if I couldn’t be an asshole at the same time I was delivering the message.
Live and learn, I guess.
