Your opening line seems to be trying to mimic the tone of mocking someone obnoxiously. Then you follow-up with an exaggerated telling of events. Then another exaggerated comparison.
Exaggerated is a big word, the guy threw three heils, while it’s a roman salute as well, nobody in the west uses it as a roman salute tho, just like the swastikas.
Also let’s not forget, Elon forsake his own blood for being transgender, do you think that the average random transgender person on the street would mean anything more than a pebble in his shoe? What did he call that? The WOKE BRAIN VIRUS....
We can’t let small transgressions pass by because they are small, every avalanche starts with a little bit of slippage.
People don’t like angry political comments here, they prefer a dispassionate tone. They also generally don’t like stuff that sounds like “left-wing activist”, even though most people here don’t identify as “right-wing” but as left/centre-left/centre/libertarian. Not to mention that whilst most people here are not pro-Trump, probably a small minority are, and they can strong downvote if they want to, and if you get no upvotes, that means low Karma even if most people aren’t bothered by what you said. Also, I think the Musk Nazi salute thing reads as “silly media bullshit” even to a lot of people who don’t like Trump, because they don’t think Musk is a “real fascist”*. Musk probably tends to get (too much of) the benefit of the doubt round here, because he shares a lot of preoccupations with the futurist, existential risk wing of EA, and because he is idolized in Silicon Valley as a great man (something that predates his public turn to the far-right.)
*(I think Musk is a real fascist, but I still kind of feel like that, because I don’t think he was actually signaling that he secretly loves Hitler, he was just trying to offend for shits and giggles. Very obnoxious, but not necessarily a sign that he is secretly working towards some sort of Nazi-style regime behind the scenes.)
1. Your style of writing doesn’t meet the standards of this forum. It’s vague and memey. I’m inclined not to be that bothered but it definitely is outside of the expected decorum of the forum.
2. You aren’t adding much to the conversation here, this is a pretty liberal forum and we already know Trump acts like a buffon and Elon is an anti-woke troll who has recently supported the AfD (I generally think people here are too quick to downvote things that feel low-effort, it’s probably directionally better if people spew a bit more garbage if that would generate more discussion and cause people to second-guess commenting less—and second I don’t think it’s so irrelevant that he did this although their are lots of other reasons to be concerned that are more concrete).
3. People here are on net not super involved in politics and might feel offended that you imply it is important since it hurts their ego, and since you write in a style that is not within the accepted standards it’s easy for them to express their discontent with your writing style even if the impetus to downvote is partially that they think you are being reactionary and disagreeing with their priors.
But yea I’d recommend writing something like ~ “The trump inauguration festivities have caused me to update towards thinking American politics is a more important cause area because x”. It still probably won’t be received particularly well here without being more quantitative/fleshing it out more but you won’t get 26 downvotes.
So I am basically the Trump of the forum, just not as influential or as rich as him lol.
I’ll address point by point, I would have made a post, but I am on timeout wooopsies.
My style of writing is really raw, stream of consciousness without thinking about what I type, I just type. I know I can be inflammatory sometimes, I like that way of communication, especially on sterile forums like this one, I feel like most of the posts here lack passion or a personal touch. They feel so well polished and digested, that they feel artificial at times. I like hot takes, I like angry posts and angry commenters.
I really am not, I feel like this forum is dead with posts or quick takes that are posted once or twice per day from the whole community. Even bad discussions in my opinion are better than no discussions at all, this place is a remake of silent hill most of the time.
People not being political on here is really weird for me because the whole of EA is affected directly by politics, from animal welfare to AI, everything is politics.
Anyways, thank you for your very constructive and well thought out response, thank you for taking the time, fairly new to posting on this forum and well I’ll probably melt in the pot, eventually.
For the record, while I don’t think your original post was great, I agree with you on all three points here. I don’t think you’re the only one noticing a lack of engagement on this forum, which seems to only get active whenever EA’s latest scandal drops.
Anyone want to give back criticism as to why I am getting down-voted?
Your opening line seems to be trying to mimic the tone of mocking someone obnoxiously. Then you follow-up with an exaggerated telling of events. Then another exaggerated comparison.
Exaggerated is a big word, the guy threw three heils, while it’s a roman salute as well, nobody in the west uses it as a roman salute tho, just like the swastikas.
Also let’s not forget, Elon forsake his own blood for being transgender, do you think that the average random transgender person on the street would mean anything more than a pebble in his shoe? What did he call that? The WOKE BRAIN VIRUS....
We can’t let small transgressions pass by because they are small, every avalanche starts with a little bit of slippage.
People don’t like angry political comments here, they prefer a dispassionate tone. They also generally don’t like stuff that sounds like “left-wing activist”, even though most people here don’t identify as “right-wing” but as left/centre-left/centre/libertarian. Not to mention that whilst most people here are not pro-Trump, probably a small minority are, and they can strong downvote if they want to, and if you get no upvotes, that means low Karma even if most people aren’t bothered by what you said. Also, I think the Musk Nazi salute thing reads as “silly media bullshit” even to a lot of people who don’t like Trump, because they don’t think Musk is a “real fascist”*. Musk probably tends to get (too much of) the benefit of the doubt round here, because he shares a lot of preoccupations with the futurist, existential risk wing of EA, and because he is idolized in Silicon Valley as a great man (something that predates his public turn to the far-right.)
*(I think Musk is a real fascist, but I still kind of feel like that, because I don’t think he was actually signaling that he secretly loves Hitler, he was just trying to offend for shits and giggles. Very obnoxious, but not necessarily a sign that he is secretly working towards some sort of Nazi-style regime behind the scenes.)
Multiple reasons.
1. Your style of writing doesn’t meet the standards of this forum. It’s vague and memey. I’m inclined not to be that bothered but it definitely is outside of the expected decorum of the forum.
2. You aren’t adding much to the conversation here, this is a pretty liberal forum and we already know Trump acts like a buffon and Elon is an anti-woke troll who has recently supported the AfD (I generally think people here are too quick to downvote things that feel low-effort, it’s probably directionally better if people spew a bit more garbage if that would generate more discussion and cause people to second-guess commenting less—and second I don’t think it’s so irrelevant that he did this although their are lots of other reasons to be concerned that are more concrete).
3. People here are on net not super involved in politics and might feel offended that you imply it is important since it hurts their ego, and since you write in a style that is not within the accepted standards it’s easy for them to express their discontent with your writing style even if the impetus to downvote is partially that they think you are being reactionary and disagreeing with their priors.
But yea I’d recommend writing something like ~ “The trump inauguration festivities have caused me to update towards thinking American politics is a more important cause area because x”. It still probably won’t be received particularly well here without being more quantitative/fleshing it out more but you won’t get 26 downvotes.
So I am basically the Trump of the forum, just not as influential or as rich as him lol.
I’ll address point by point, I would have made a post, but I am on timeout wooopsies.
My style of writing is really raw, stream of consciousness without thinking about what I type, I just type. I know I can be inflammatory sometimes, I like that way of communication, especially on sterile forums like this one, I feel like most of the posts here lack passion or a personal touch. They feel so well polished and digested, that they feel artificial at times. I like hot takes, I like angry posts and angry commenters.
I really am not, I feel like this forum is dead with posts or quick takes that are posted once or twice per day from the whole community. Even bad discussions in my opinion are better than no discussions at all, this place is a remake of silent hill most of the time.
People not being political on here is really weird for me because the whole of EA is affected directly by politics, from animal welfare to AI, everything is politics.
Anyways, thank you for your very constructive and well thought out response, thank you for taking the time, fairly new to posting on this forum and well I’ll probably melt in the pot, eventually.
Thanks for the time fam, have a good one.
For the record, while I don’t think your original post was great, I agree with you on all three points here. I don’t think you’re the only one noticing a lack of engagement on this forum, which seems to only get active whenever EA’s latest scandal drops.