You want real-ass harry potter magic? ADHD/Sperg/Autist is the gateway. I think that this is missing from the alternative. Like you have an itty bitty piece of 3d matter embedded in your 2d, flatland-living, flatland-society self.

I relate. I sound like a genius in writing, relatively speaking. I guess it’s not uncommon.

That is an opinion that I used to share. No more.

I have offered a dozen strange ideas here. Not difficult or complex, just strange. They are not received well.

Constraining your topic

A kind of politics-flavored smalltalk. Yes, that is the local dialect.

Believe it or not, I have discussed subjects that matter deeply to me in online forums. But lately it’s just fruitless fishing.

I think we have a thousand mob-squawks posing as niche communities. Different flavors, same conversations.

Completely open and popular forums are not entirely a good thing.

I just said that I don’t mean plainer language.

“Should” is arguable. (For example you might be fishing for the few in the crowd) .

But yes, your choice of topic. That’s what I’m talking about. Sometimes it looks pretty narrow.

And if you do. Well, that carries with it it’s own bucket of implications.

Not talking about simplified writing.

I am not talking about better communication. If I was then I would have said “use a clearer style of speaking” or something like that.

I am talking about limiting what you discuss to the popular and easily-digested.

Just say no to rugs.

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But are you willing to fake it? That’s what we’re asking. Are you willing to put your whole soul into faking it.

Everybody fakes it down here.

Do you think it’s a conscious plan to mindcontrol everybody or is it just a basement dweller treating his mod powers like the ultimate downvote?

But you uttered an opinion about moderation. So address my point.

Most? Well not my conversations.

Maybe it’s a smalltalk vs “largetalk” thing. Maybe most conversations are smalltalk. Talk that’s just friendly noise or whatever.

That is a territory with which I am pretty unfamiliar.

But ya, 2 totally different kinds of talk.

Maybe trolling constitutes a 3rd variety.

Well there is no clean connection between the rule and reality (short of forbidden word lists anyway). It’s always a matter of somebody’s interpretation.

Some communities have rules like “don’t be a dick”, which seems implied.

Maybe rules are inappropriate here. At best a justification.

Actually it ain’t. Good, catch

What if they got off topic. What would happen?

Also, do you think that you understand their conversation better than they do? All of them?

But it’s a very good guideline for people who, like moderators, have power and imperfect understanding. It’s saying, “when in doubt, err on the side of least possible harm”. So that’s a good guide. Right?

Instead of doctors we’d have AI controlled animatronics doing the deed.