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06 September 2011
I have decided to retire from arguing online I'm gonna be on the interwebz like this bear.
I don't know I've recently become more active again on a Site That Shall Not Be Named and for some reason STSNBN's members really get a kick out of arguing for the heck of it and for some reason my disposition these days is just to get in there and go BAM in a way that actually has physiological effects on me (increased pulse etc.) and after you're done STSNBN's mods even go ahead and delete the whole fight. Meanwhile another place overrun with younger people with an appetite for indefatigable drama also takes up some of my procrastination time and it's just surprising how these users have so much energy to go round after round (lol).
So I'm stressed out, sleep deprived, working, and block a threatening little PM on the second site, engaged in something totally stupid but still personal on the first site, and I go upstairs talk to the fam, everyone is stressed over something or other, you know, everyone has things going on, sometimes you're just a bunch of stressed people in a stressed environment for a bit, and so you have to just manage that when you're trying to interact and get things done, and I come back and some unhinged weirdo on STSNBN also wants to private mail me something and I'm thinking like what is this, it's not like online drama is my vocation or something, and this is before we count the fact that I've been up for 30 hours, trying to get this thing done, and suddenly I have to worry about what these dudes online want to say? NO.
I'm also for some reason getting a bit explosive in general from quick interactions when I'm outside etc. and it's always the most pointless thing like you're in it for ego and sort of social "f you too" more than anything else and it's just something to tamp down on