I hate how "fake-seeking" is the new form of doing something for attention, like publicizing someone's supposed fabrications in the comments with 0 evidence that anything was manufactured in the first place just so you could feel the reward of delivering truth or something
I definitely feel the reward of delivering my opinion, so do you it seems.
I don't think fake-seeking is a real thing, it's just that there are still people dumb enough to believe the ever increasing amount of fake things that exist at once. And those that don't seem to.
Well, I appreciate the honestly. I also appreciate your original statement, which I think was just fine and didn't need to be expanded into an essay by ChatGPT like you're trying to up the page count for a high school essay.
> This would be totally irrelevant if it weren't for social media status seeking.
isn't being unnecessarily negative to you? It's a cute little story about dining hall forks, not a hot girl who just happens to be in a bikini shilling a business course or some crap on instagram for followers. It's on their personal blog, that I (unfortunately) will likely never read again, so the amount of "clout" they're receiving from it isn't that big a deal.
Your comments starts off accusing them of faking the cute little story. That's not unnecessarily negative to you? I have no idea if the story is true or not, I'm not at Tufts, but this very cute little story reads as genuine to me. It could be that I'm gullible and being taken in by a future Jordan Belfort, but it's just so cute and earnest that I didn't even think about that, and have a hard time believing that. It's 100% totally fine that the random thought that it could be fake popped into your head, we don't really control what we think, but then after that, the problem is you went to the length of publishing a comment accusing them of that, which is to say your cynicism filter could use some fine tuning.
The fact that your comment's been downvoted says I'm not the only one that thinks that. The fact that you then also felt the need to turn around and attack my comment as being unnecessarily negative speaks volumes.
>Your comments starts off accusing them of faking the cute little story.
No it didn't. I am saying that it reads like they might have thought up the idea as something to blog about before they executed the idea. For the sole purpose of appearing more interesting.
Irrelevant here means just uninteresting enough that it wouldn't be brought up in conversation when people describe their life.
>The fact that your comment's been downvoted says I'm not the only one that thinks that.
Downvotes have no reflection on the content of my comment. Just the response to it. It sounds like you spend too long on Reddit.
Huh? What comment of yours am I attacking? Are you logged into the wrong account?
> I am saying that it reads like they might have thought up the idea as something to blog about before they executed the idea. For the sole purpose of appearing more interesting.
Where I'm from we call this "telling on yourself."
It occurred to you to read the story this way, so reflexively that you never stopped to question the thought and indeed have resisted quite stubbornly all suggestions, no doubt soon including this one, that you should question it.
This sequence of events says nothing about the story. It says a good deal, none especially complimentary, about you.
Which comment are you referring to here? My read is that this is referring to my comment "Who hurt you?" but if that was not your intention then I misread, apologies.
Yes you did. You may not have intended it that way, but that's how it comes across. You're free to feel like you didn't, but if you're looking to communicate effectively, and not just argue on the Internet, it would be worth your while to figure out why your comment comes across that way.
