Did Not Read
I have mentioned before that I post on the comments section of various advice columns (mostly those on Arcamax). I know, I know, but I really have a need in my life for active online discussion, and I'm kind of hampered in fandom right now by my inability to Tumblr*, so, advice columns it is.
And I mentioned before: I have NEVER run across a community wherein it is such standard practice to inform people that you are no longer going to be reading their posts. The "Did Not Read" comments are just an extreme: people routinely announce that they will be blocking a person (after getting the last word in, of course).
I mean, I get the impulse. Of course when a thread has gone south enough that you are blocking someone, you want to get in that last,"Neener, neener." But Jesus, aren't people embarrassed to be that...transparent?
Some of this makes me want to dust off my cybertheory goggles and dig into the history of the loose community where I participate, because I could see a connection between this and the Trumpian, "FAKE NEWS I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" of the last two years. OTOH, ending "with a jade's trick" is clearly at least as old as Shakespeare, and probably as old as Og grunting that they weren't going to listen to Ug's responding grunt.
People. I'm just saying.
*Once again, I know. But it's not just the whole reblog comment-threading. I find repeating gifs actively visually distressing - as in, they both distract me and make my eyes and head hurt - and I have not yet figured out how to deal with that.
This entry was originally posted at https://cereta.dreamwidth.org/1183046.html. If you can, please speak there.
have spoken there.
And I mentioned before: I have NEVER run across a community wherein it is such standard practice to inform people that you are no longer going to be reading their posts. The "Did Not Read" comments are just an extreme: people routinely announce that they will be blocking a person (after getting the last word in, of course).
I mean, I get the impulse. Of course when a thread has gone south enough that you are blocking someone, you want to get in that last,"Neener, neener." But Jesus, aren't people embarrassed to be that...transparent?
Some of this makes me want to dust off my cybertheory goggles and dig into the history of the loose community where I participate, because I could see a connection between this and the Trumpian, "FAKE NEWS I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" of the last two years. OTOH, ending "with a jade's trick" is clearly at least as old as Shakespeare, and probably as old as Og grunting that they weren't going to listen to Ug's responding grunt.
People. I'm just saying.
*Once again, I know. But it's not just the whole reblog comment-threading. I find repeating gifs actively visually distressing - as in, they both distract me and make my eyes and head hurt - and I have not yet figured out how to deal with that.
This entry was originally posted at https://cereta.dreamwidth.org/1183046.html. If you can, please speak there.
