Spartacuss
wholly charmed
- Joined
- Apr 27, 2008
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- 5w4
Hey, I don't discount your bad experience there. To me, both forums have their flaws, though TypoC seems more interested in INTPc's flaws than vice versa.Really? More rough and tumble? Please. It may seem so, because most of the people there have zero spines and cannot be in the presence of a dominant personality without wetting themselves, but if anything I find it is largely the same, just more prone to groupthink and stereotype reinforcement.
That doesn't mean the forum is without value. Just need a different approach to get to the real meat.
I don't think it's fair to say that people there have zero spines. SOME people there have no spines, and some are always getting into trouble with more established cliques. In any given day you have poster wars. Some don't give a shit about the monkey antics of longstanding bullies and don't participate. You were there - did you get into long arguments there? if not, were you spineless or were you apathetic?
Please elaborate.and cannot be in the presence of a dominant personality without wetting themselves.
I find both places prone to enormous groupthink, though about different topics. INTPc's political echo chamber, for example, is notorious. And ironic stereotype peddling is so tired.but if anything I find it is largely the same, just more prone to groupthink and stereotype reinforcement.
That doesn't mean the forum is without value. Just need a different approach to get to the real meat.
I also think there's too much deference to veteran, ex-admin posters, the most obnoxious of whom is, IMHO, mistyped though he has much pull among the sheep-like members.
I don't know what it was like back in the day when you posted, but it seems to me people go at each other in ways we would consider below the belt here. With the exception of a few choice members here, there's less "niceness" in argument.I keep seeing people say this, but I just don't remember INTPc being that mean of a place, during the whole time I was there. This place has more drama, at least.