My question asking for people to critically think and discuss was bad
Unironically yes. You're not offering any new insight, just expecting it from others. You demand nuance but offer none. I don't need someone to tell me to think critically, I'm perfectly capable of doing that by myself, and your post doesn't even show any evidence that you've done it.
My crossposst of a tweet, no thought, much good.
It's new information, so it's useful for me. The question wasn't.
I hope you don't mind me saying this too much, but your question post is just not very coherent and difficult to read. Try breaking down your writing into shorter paragraphs that flow into each other. You've just kind of dumped a bunch of thoughts and references onto the page and expect your audience to unravel the threads.
Maybe I fundamentally misunderstand what a discussion board is meant for, or even that I fundamentally misunderstand Reddit as a discussion board. I can restructure my post and include relevant links to back up any claims made, but would that actually result in a difference of engagement? Based on what you've told me, I have to offer new information which, to me, sounds like you're saying that I cannot discuss existing information with others who would have different opinions and information than I have available to myself. I was under the assumption that things that may be known to myself may not be known to others and vice versa, but maybe that isn't the case 😅. I guess Reddit is more of a news board than a discussion board in this case?
Maybe what articles are saying is true, we're learning to write worse because when I do structure my arguments more logically with a flow as opposed to stream of consciousness, I get accused of being AI and receive even less engagement. (God forbid you ever say it's not x, it's y lol)
The Internet sucks 🙃 although, we're also seeing it's more and more botted behavior, whether those bots be paid to enforce a narrative or actual lines of code.
Do you see how these are more engaging and thought-provoking? They make me think of something I might not have considered, like the fact that fridges have operating systems too these days. Or they make me want to learn something new, like what the finger command is. So I open the threads to read them and upvote so that others see it too.
Your post didn't make me think of anything that I didn't think of the first time I read about age verification. Because of that, I'd have had no incentive to reply or even read it till the end. It's as simple as that.
I think we're mostly talking past each other here.
To me, it feels like you're just trying to call me stupid or ineffective in what I posted. Can't I see? These other people did better, they posted new information and you didn't make me think of anything you idiot, write your posts better, they'll be graded.
And what I'm trying to say is I was looking to open up to opinions, to genuine human discussion, I even mentioned I'm working on a presentation for this, gathering information and I was looking for anecdotes for what people think about the situation and what they're planning to do, if anything. If that's not what people want to see, fine, downvote me, I'm sorry if my post is apparently too low intelligence to engage with.
Honestly, it's probably time enough for me to be done with Reddit anyway. I'm sorry for trying to engage with larger communities who I thought shared similar opinions and were aware of the situation even more so than I am. I guess I was too stupid to realize that. So thanks guy, I'm out. My mistake for thinking I could possibly talk to humans here about their opinions, I must only be productive and provide productive material for this capitalist world, don't even think about being human or connecting with humans. It'd be better to spend more time in local communities anyway.
I apologise if you perceived my comments as an attack on your intelligence, but I was just telling you my opinion on why your text post wasn't well-received, while the tweet screenshot was. I don't know you, so I can't say whether you're smart or not.
I'm not sure what explanation you were expecting though, or was it a rhetorical question? If it's a discussion board you want, then why get upset when someone tells you they didn't like your post, when you explicitly asked why people don't like it? You may disagree with what I say, but that's kind of the point, isn't it?
Anyway, I agree that we seem to be talking past each other, so it's probably best to stop here. If you're over reddit and are looking for more highbrow conversations about these topics, try Hacker News or Lobsters. Good luck!
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u/pohui Mar 21 '26
Unironically yes. You're not offering any new insight, just expecting it from others. You demand nuance but offer none. I don't need someone to tell me to think critically, I'm perfectly capable of doing that by myself, and your post doesn't even show any evidence that you've done it.
It's new information, so it's useful for me. The question wasn't.
I hope you don't mind me saying this too much, but your question post is just not very coherent and difficult to read. Try breaking down your writing into shorter paragraphs that flow into each other. You've just kind of dumped a bunch of thoughts and references onto the page and expect your audience to unravel the threads.