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by mattmanser
5531 days ago
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To be brutally honest, if you're not a bit weird[1] you're probably not cut out to make it in the social space. We're talking about people who would have created a hot or not site 10 years ago without a thought about the pain it could cause people who always ended up 'not'. These aren't normally adjusted people. They have a lot of good points, and some very bad ones. If you want to look at it in a good way they're not bounded by social norms. In certain scenarios, they're not very nice people. I'm not judging and to be utterly frank I sometimes wish I was one of them, they're not like 95% of the rest of us and that gives them some advantages. Like this stunt. Edit:[1] I'm having a very hard time finding the right word here. Sociopathic? It's a bit too harsh given what can be lumped in there, but it does describe it a bit. A couple of good friends of mine have the trait I'm trying to describe. I love them, but they make me cringe sometimes. |
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Doing many of these 'sociopathic' things is a lot like going to a small country town where people leave their doors unlocked and burgling the houses there; you're violating a lot of unwritten and only mildly enforced rules. What bothers me is the idea that you will be specifically rewarded for this kind of behavior if you can spin it as a 'Country Town Social Hack'.