After she elevates Kat’s name to the headline; uses the entire post to insult her writing; draws on ageist tropes and perjoratives like “cringe” to make her case; explicitly chooses to share the message not with the writing’s intended audience but rather a specific in-group who shares a distaste for Reddit’s lower-brow content; doing so in an effort to rile up pressure to change her behavior on the other site; an all the more potent strike considering the context that Kat is already a well-known figure who presumably cares about her standing among LW/EA communities… you don’t believe this is bullying because Browsing dropped a passing caveat that Kat might be nice in personal relations and that her object-level issue was largely that the content checks notes “feels bad for my brain” like the equivalent of eating cheetos.
Huh?
Here’s the problem with your view. You’re so reluctant to “accuse” someone of a “personal attack” or “bullying” that when it happens, you’re lost trying to determine where the behavior lies in gray thresholds of the definition that you ignore the misbehavior in plain sight. That lacks common sense. If she didn’t want this to be a “personal attack”, she could have made many different choices along the way, which she obviously did not, the most prominent being posting on Reddit rather than here and not putting her name in the headline, on top of what you already pointed out was “unnecessarily harsh tone” and what I will deem shallow and uncharitable motivations like being “grumpy” about the vibes and mounting this attack for “fun”, a far more viscious kind of engagement bait than the memes she criticized.
I’m going to withdraw from this comment thread since I don’t think my further participation is a good use of time/energy. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and sorry we didn’t come to agreement.
When we got drill down into the crux of disagreement you walk away because it’s not a good use of time/energy. Of course you’re welcome to do that, but unfortunate.
Let me get this straight.
After she elevates Kat’s name to the headline; uses the entire post to insult her writing; draws on ageist tropes and perjoratives like “cringe” to make her case; explicitly chooses to share the message not with the writing’s intended audience but rather a specific in-group who shares a distaste for Reddit’s lower-brow content; doing so in an effort to rile up pressure to change her behavior on the other site; an all the more potent strike considering the context that Kat is already a well-known figure who presumably cares about her standing among LW/EA communities… you don’t believe this is bullying because Browsing dropped a passing caveat that Kat might be nice in personal relations and that her object-level issue was largely that the content checks notes “feels bad for my brain” like the equivalent of eating cheetos.
Huh?
Here’s the problem with your view. You’re so reluctant to “accuse” someone of a “personal attack” or “bullying” that when it happens, you’re lost trying to determine where the behavior lies in gray thresholds of the definition that you ignore the misbehavior in plain sight. That lacks common sense. If she didn’t want this to be a “personal attack”, she could have made many different choices along the way, which she obviously did not, the most prominent being posting on Reddit rather than here and not putting her name in the headline, on top of what you already pointed out was “unnecessarily harsh tone” and what I will deem shallow and uncharitable motivations like being “grumpy” about the vibes and mounting this attack for “fun”, a far more viscious kind of engagement bait than the memes she criticized.
I’m going to withdraw from this comment thread since I don’t think my further participation is a good use of time/energy. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and sorry we didn’t come to agreement.
When we got drill down into the crux of disagreement you walk away because it’s not a good use of time/energy. Of course you’re welcome to do that, but unfortunate.