I didn’t vote on it either way, but I read the Forrest article, and if someone made a top-level post promoting the “Drama Triangle” I would very likely give it a strong downvote. It’s yet another universal Procrustean psychological theory, every possible response to which can be shoehorned into the theory itself.
I also found the first paragraph of Valentine’s comment icky. It comes across to me as histrionic emoting, and I would not care to encounter that sort of thing addressed to myself. But it was addressed to lsusr and it is up to him how he takes it.
For what it’s worth, I took Valentine’s first paragraph as high praise. I write narratives with the deliberate intention of eliciting specific emotional responses and that was the exact emotional response I aimed to elicit when I wrote this story.
I’d feel icky too to read such a response to one of your [Richard_Kennaway’s] posts or to one of my drier posts. But I feel the emoting is appropriate in this context.
I didn’t vote on it either way, but I read the Forrest article, and if someone made a top-level post promoting the “Drama Triangle” I would very likely give it a strong downvote. It’s yet another universal Procrustean psychological theory, every possible response to which can be shoehorned into the theory itself.
I also found the first paragraph of Valentine’s comment icky. It comes across to me as histrionic emoting, and I would not care to encounter that sort of thing addressed to myself. But it was addressed to lsusr and it is up to him how he takes it.
For what it’s worth, I took Valentine’s first paragraph as high praise. I write narratives with the deliberate intention of eliciting specific emotional responses and that was the exact emotional response I aimed to elicit when I wrote this story.
I’d feel icky too to read such a response to one of your [Richard_Kennaway’s] posts or to one of my drier posts. But I feel the emoting is appropriate in this context.