princessbonecrimes:

battlecrazed-axe-mage:

battlecrazed-axe-mage:

battlecrazed-axe-mage:

We’ve all gotten just a bit too comfortable being jerks to strangers on the internet I think

So I’ve hidden this reply, both because it’s obnoxious and because I don’t want the person who wrote it being harassed for it, but I need you to understand: I don’t know you. We are not friends. This is not fun or cute, we are not sharing a charming joke together. You are just being an asshole.

literally that is what the post is about, I am saying people should be less eager to jump on any chance to be snarky and rude to total strangers on the internet

looks like it’s time to bring back scalzi’s evergreen “the failure mode of clever is asshole”

1. The effectiveness of clever on other people is highly contingent on outside factors, over which you have no control and of which you may not have any knowledge; i.e., just because you intended to be clever doesn’t mean you will be perceived as clever, for all sorts of reasons.

2. The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”