mattyman wrote: ↑August 25th, 2021, 8:51 pm
Moderation
Never say this on any forum, blog, video comment, anywhere online;
If you dropped dead tomorrow and never posted again, no one would care
I had that in a reply. That's not acceptable behaviour.
The original
No one gives a crap whether you listen to our advice or not. You're an anonymous internet account that might be a bot for all we know. If you dropped dead tomorrow and never posted again, no one would care. People in forums mostly seek to help themselves, by being challenged by opposing views, being forced to defend their own views and organize their thoughts into written form, etc. Whether anyone real actually reads what we write hardly matters.
I wouldn't allow comments like this; 'If you dropped dead tomorrow and never posted again no-one would care'.
NEVER say such horrible things. Whether thoughtlessness or malice. Not acceptable. You wouldn't like it, especially if you were lonely. Don't criticize me of anonymity, you won't be able to say it if you weren't anonymous yourself. hypocrite.
Clearly I'm not a bot. No-one wants that said, no-one wants to be on the receiving end, no justification.
NEVER say stuff like this online. Achieves nothing and could have serious mental health consequences (not with me).
Never say;
If you dropped dead tomorrow and never posted again, no one would care
You will regret it, someone could say the same to you in your darkest hour. How would you like it?
THINK!
No one on the forum would care, it's true. And if you have no wife, girlfriend, children, people dear and fond to you, close to you, near to you... who really will care, besides maybe a parent? The world just keeps spinning. And your body will rot. And before the maggots eat the last little particle of flesh off your bones, you'll be completely and utterly forgotten. And so will I, for that matter. Just a little later because I've fathered quite a few children, entered quite a few romantic entanglements, left my mark on the world in some ways. People will remember me a bit longer... but one day, the last of my descendants to have actively met me and have memories of me will die, too, and it'll be almost as if I never walked the earth. And this is the fate of us all.
So one day we die. And all those we know die. And all those who meant something to us die. And then, all those who come after die. The earth dies. Life on earth dies long before the earth dies. The universe, too, might just collapse on itself. Who knows? I'm not Nostradamus. I'm not a scientist. We try to find a little bit of meaning in life. Some of us succeed. Some of us fail. Ultimately we're all just sort of fooling ourselves. And some just fool themselves more successfully than others, which is why I'm reasonably comfortable for the time being.
Don't rely on this forum, or any other online community full of strangers, to pat you on the back and give you validation. It's not what this place is for. And if you expect it,
need it even, all you will get out of your forum experience is disappointment.