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by cwillu 1401 days ago
Joke explainer:

Narcissism mode attempts to send an email to the author when you score a point: “https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?fs=1&tf=cm&source=mailto&s...

   Subject: I+love+your+work
   to: pippin.barr@gmail.com
   body: I+wanted+to+take+a+couple+of+minutes+to+write+you+an+email+about+how+much+I+respect+and+appreciate+your+work...
1 comments

Right. Joke.
If you think iOS opening mailto: links in the Mail app represents some kind of security breach then I have bad news for you.
If an application developer expects people NOT to react defensively to automatically launched external applications, they are deluded.

That link does not open from a user-initiated event, even if it technically does.

That's fair, but if you don't think it's meant as a joke, what do you think the intention is?
It's a double-joke because the narcissist truly does not care about this category of criticism.
How did you come to the conclusion that I don’t think it’s meant as a joke, after having that openly explained to me on a public forum?

That kind of mind-reading is right next to gaslighting on the dark triad trait list.

Your direct response to the person explaining that it was a joke was literally ”Right. Joke.” Was that not sarcasm?

While we’re handing out psych evaluations, you seem oddly keen on finding malice in the behavior of others.