[INTP] INTP Central

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It has come to our attention there might be a few INTPs that do not know about INTP Central.

We'd like you to be aware of this community and encourage you to check us out.

Also: if INTPs here at MBTIc would like to offer some constructive criticism about INTPc and why they prefer this community I encourage you to post them in this thread.

Thank you,
-MacGuffin, Admin here & there

Mac. Actually I am a bit perplexed since there have been so many attempts over the years to rid the forum of non-INTP types. What I find even more ironic is that the original top 100 subscribers ridiculed other types for the same things that they have become at INTPc in promoting exclusion. When I originally began posting on INTPC as INTrPosr, NGene (INTJ) welcomed all types.

 

[MacGuffin]

Mac. Actually I am a bit perplexed since there have been so many attempts over the years to rid the forum of non-INTP types. What I find even more ironic is that the original top 100 subscribers ridiculed other types for the same things that they have become at INTPc in promoting exclusion. When I originally began posting on INTPC as INTrPosr, NGene (INTJ) welcomed all types.

I am not understanding.

 

[digesthisickness]

I am not understanding.

i don't think it's you.

 

[MacGuffin]

I decided to post about cliques at a new thread here.

 

[The Ü™]

Well, INTPc doesn't have a friends space or member groups, I'll give you that.

Not that I use those features for cliques. (The Führerbunker is mostly just a joke.)

 

[Tallulah]

I am not understanding.

I think he's saying nerds have cliques, too.

 

[MacGuffin]

I think he's saying nerds have cliques, too.

Yes, we ate at the same table in high school and had an ongoing discussion about why they didn't form Voltron right away but I'm not sure that was what he was driving at.

 

["?"]

I am not understanding.

I know I read your invite to new INTPs before writing that post, but it was no registering. Never mind.

 

[MadamI'madaM]

I wouldn't say INTPc has cliques so much as it has a few demigods. Some good and some evil. And the madmins are sort of a necessary clique.

I'm having a really hard time thinking about what topics really, really couldn't work at INTPc. Of course there's going to be people trying to shit on your tea party (or merging your threads), but we just had two long ones about religion and generalized faith that actually weren't mostly flames/smartass comments.

If you can make it interesting to us (huge caveat), we'll pretty much roll with any topic within reason. Even intelligent or creative (or sometimes not) fluffy shit. I think if you can handle a handful of people being immature on any given day without getting raged, you could pull off any topic at INTPc. INTPs are just really good at getting under the skin, so that could be easier said than done for some OTs. There are always tons of people willing to give constructive input, perhaps with small barbs attached.

Summary: if what you expect from a forum experience is a cross between speech & debate and a cuddle puddle, then you'd better be INTP if you think you'd like INTPc.

EDIT: ptg, if what you meant by "cliques" was "forum drama", then we have a dangerous cycle with that, sure.

 

[Tigerlily]

I have met some great people at INTPc but other than that I rarely post there. I realize it's an INTP site and we don't have a lot of the same interests.

 

[ptgatsby]

EDIT: ptg, if what you meant by "cliques" was "forum drama", then we have a dangerous cycle with that, sure.

I mean cliques, but... not quite in the conventional sense, I suppose. I think Aihman put it well - INTPs just aren't as aware of their social motivators. They think they aren't being influenced by this clique-like behavior when outsiders can see it. But at the same time, they don't quite fit the definition...

In the end, it has a lot of the hallmarks of a clique in the way it expresses itself, but maybe can't quite be reduced to the same internal dynamics. I dunno. Would be an interesting study... to see if how different types deal with "outsiders" once established.

 

[Mycroft]

Yes, we ate at the same table in high school and had an ongoing discussion about why they didn't form Voltron right away...

I know, right????

 

[Atomic Fiend]

Yes, we ate at the same table in high school and had an ongoing discussion about why they didn't form Voltron right away but I'm not sure that was what he was driving at.

That always bothered me.

 

[Brendan]

Indeed. Shoo!

I didn't like it there. I left in Dec 2005 and haven't looked back since (I guess that should've helped me make up my mind that I was INTJ) .

Yeah. I mean, I looked back a few times and in retrospect, it's kind of like a high school.

 

[bluebell]

But, MBTIc, for me, is like being in the real world. I get a lot of that every day. When I want a retreat...a place to be online where it feels like home...I go to INTPc.

That's my main reason for mostly lurking here and being active on INTPc.

I was also thinking that MBTIc feels 'loud' to me - like a big crowd of people continuously talking, whereas INTPc feels quieter and more introvert-friendly.

 

[Simplexity]

How much serious non-cliche discussion goes on there and how frequently?

Sometimes there is a little lull here in terms of more NT conversation style discussion on this site and I get a little antsy. From lurking I generally liked the flow of some of the more interesting threads I saw there.

 

[bluebell]

How much serious non-cliche discussion goes on there and how frequently?

I was going to answer but then thought I should check what you mean by non-cliched, rather than making assumptions.

 

[Simplexity]

Iq and intelligence type shit.

Feeler bias

 

[bluebell]

It goes through phases. Occasionally there will be a short spate of IQ threads but most don't take it seriously. Ditto for the feeler bias, I think. Others may see it differently though.

 

[ajblaise]

Ditto for the feeler bias, I think. Others may see it differently though.

I used to frequent INTPc for a while and I notice more feeler bashing here.