• snooggums
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    07 days ago

    My point was that your chosen approach is guaranteed not to work.

    I started off clear and concise and didn’t escalate until they dug in their heels and it was clear they weren’t going to budge. At that point I was posting to vent and maybe it would encourage others to try something that might get through.

    Throwing insults around is not always a negative thing, sometimes expressing frustration is a valid thing for people to do even if it doesn’t fix anything. While your advice would work for engaging with reasonable people, it ends up being tone policing when the approach never mattered in the first place.

    • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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      07 days ago

      I went back to the beginning of your conversation and all I see is you and Jordan being equally snitty and pedantic at each other.

      IDK, man. You’re not really wrong as far as talking to Jordan sometimes being like talking to a wall. But I think your chosen approach is pretty much guaranteed to make that tendency worse, if someone already has it. That’s as long as I really want to go back and forth on the subject.