(Please, call me Van, yvannairie is the person I pretend to be when I need to be competent, anyway)
>I feel like there'd be a lot less wank if negativity wasn't seen as a personal attack
I think this is an astute observation, and I don't know how to start solving it, because I don't think I've ever personally phrased negativity to be a personal attack? The only time I remember that happening was someone pointing out the Unfortunate Implications of a thing I'd said, which I found to be entirely fair. Like, it's just not a thing I do, I wouldn't know where to start addresing why it happens.
But it's definitely a thing! There is someone on this post expressing that they feel like the thing being called bad is somehow passing judgement on them. It is not self-explanatorily nonsensical. For frank discussions about why something doesn't work or why we don't like it, we'd first need to firmly establish that bad taste doesn't a bad person make, and that quality does not necessarily translate to enjoyability.
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Date: 28/1/19 20:48 (UTC)>I feel like there'd be a lot less wank if negativity wasn't seen as a personal attack
I think this is an astute observation, and I don't know how to start solving it, because I don't think I've ever personally phrased negativity to be a personal attack? The only time I remember that happening was someone pointing out the Unfortunate Implications of a thing I'd said, which I found to be entirely fair. Like, it's just not a thing I do, I wouldn't know where to start addresing why it happens.
But it's definitely a thing! There is someone on this post expressing that they feel like the thing being called bad is somehow passing judgement on them. It is not self-explanatorily nonsensical. For frank discussions about why something doesn't work or why we don't like it, we'd first need to firmly establish that bad taste doesn't a bad person make, and that quality does not necessarily translate to enjoyability.