Comments | vzg: I hate everything. That's something you've never heard from me before.

vzg

I hate everything. That's something you've never heard from me before.

Apr 16, 2014 14:31

I am so close to just being done with any and all internet communities that focus on actual conversation. I'm so sick of 99% of the crap on FFA right now, but, you know, pretty much everywhere else is just as full of it ( Read more... )

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chocolatepot April 17 2014, 00:40:43 UTC

Dang. What's going on? I haven't been there in such a long time.

vzg April 18 2014, 12:18:58 UTC

Well, at the time it was a bunch of bullshit about why it's okay to post things that sound xenophobic, because obviously they aren't really assholes who hate all of Russia, except, oh right, they are. Basically stupid country wank, started by someone I'm preeetty sure was trolling and perpetuated by people going "It's a FIGURE OF SPEECH!!!11"

And now there are people who seem awfully quick to say, "Ugh, people, wait for a conviction! That's why we have the judicial system!" re: a rape accusation and are basically implying that thinking anything more than, "Well, I suppose it's possible he did it!" makes you a terrible person.

For the time being at least, I'm just scrolling by it, but it reminds me of the shitty conversations I used to have with my classmates in high school. I had at least thought FFA would be beyond that crap, but nooo, not even remotely.

chocolatepot April 18 2014, 13:45:36 UTC

Yeah, that's the trouble with FFA. I'm never quite sure whether or not the commenters who drop from "anti-SJW" to "regressive stubborn idiots" are legitimately getting lost as they try to oppose extremism, if they're really conservative dicks who are using being anti-SJW to cover the nastiness of their views, or if they're just trolls. It can be so hard to tell.

I tend to lean to the middle one, though. And the people who get sucked into defending them are likely the first.

vzg April 18 2014, 22:58:48 UTC

I think it's a mix. There's definitely some super-conservative dicks, definitely a lot of trolls (some of them are just really transparent), and definitely a number of people who think all social justice = SJW bullshit. And then they all get together and think they've got to defend each other/seem to think that this kind of thing is actually funny, which is really pretty pathetic, but frustrating in the way it encourages the truly earnest people.