there have also been a few huge disaster-threads recently that really damaged my personal affect regarding this community. When everybody in The Rationality Club (tm) starts acting like children, defect-defecting on each other and statusmongering and basically looking indistinguishable from my Facebook feed
I found a lot of behavior in the White Lies thread to be disappointing, not in content but in tone and how people were treating each other. I think it affected me so much that I’ve been reading other threads recently with a bad taste in my mouth, because I frankly can’t point to any other threads and say “this one was also a nightmare” but it just feels like the level of civility across the community took a big hit, or maybe my faith took the hit and it’s coloring my reading.
I’m curious, which threads are you referring to?
I found a lot of behavior in the White Lies thread to be disappointing, not in content but in tone and how people were treating each other. I think it affected me so much that I’ve been reading other threads recently with a bad taste in my mouth, because I frankly can’t point to any other threads and say “this one was also a nightmare” but it just feels like the level of civility across the community took a big hit, or maybe my faith took the hit and it’s coloring my reading.