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If you explain bad behavior around here readers take it to mean you're defending that behavior.
For example; I can usually explain why conservatives think and act the way they do but I don't because I'll just get beat up.
Yep. Not my first experience with it here or elsewhere.
I miss the internet that existed before smart phones because of the intellectual dilution they allowed.
Kids today have no idea what it's like to be in an internet discussion that is majority phds and having to up your game to participate.
The vast majority of commenters today would be dismissed as trolls; that bar has disappeared.
Mate I’m in my late 30s. I’ve been online since before the Internet even existed.
No one wants a return to usenet groups and incels circlejerking each other about how smart they are.
What does this statement mean to you?
Sounds like you were involved with the tail end of Usenet but I wasn't referring to Usenet.
Incel didn't become what means today until sometime after 2000 when 4chan and Reddit arrived on the scene. That was the beginning of the end of the period I am talking about.