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I am going to delete all the dumb, aspergers worthy discussion threads.

this is not the place for talking about butts and farts and shrimp. take that to your plurk or rpanons.

ps you guys should link me new gifs or all you're going to get from now on is jensen ackles

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[(Anonymous)]

It's really a question of the amount of information though, because some things don't have a quick shorthand answer.

It is pretty unreasonable to expect that someone on the internet is going to type out for you a summary of, for example, a history that a whole tradition of authors have written dozens of books on. It's frankly not realistic to think that someone is going to boil that all down to the size of a single reply on a blog for you.

I'm not saying they shouldn't point you in the right direction and give you an idea where they're coming from, but if you really give a shit about knowing what they're talking about? At some point you can't expect them to do the work or just spoon feed you the compiled information from a dozen different 300 page history books.

There is a way to learn things without someone on the internet taking the time to explain them to you. It's called reading books that have already been written on a topic and making use of the time that published authors have already put in to doing the explaining.

da

[(Anonymous)]

I do agree with this wholeheartedly, but it seems as though a lot of the people who do this don't even bother with the "pointing people in the right direction" part. I usually end up engaging in SJ-based debates quite a lot, and so accordingly I like to keep a stock of links to blogs, articles and books for people who are actually interested in learning. I appreciate that this is an emotionally exhausting subject for many people- it is for me too!- but I already decided that if I'm going to engage in these conversations I need to be prepared to offer educational materials. No one goes into an argument thinking that they're wrong (trolls and debate team members excluded): while the tone people use can sometimes rankle and seem entitled or self-centered, if I want to get through to them I do need to meet them half-way.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

That's what most people that combat social shit to - nothing too special, I do that myself.

I've yet to see a person other than GNN that's actually aggressive about this and doesn't have any links at all. I suspect they aren't anywhere as common as some people claim they are.

To be fair, GNN has about a dozen sockpuppets, so it's easy to think that little shit is more than one person.