On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.
On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.
As a professional “Ackshually”-er, a lot of us don’t do it to demean others but just to genuinely spread the knowledge. There’s some asses who do it just to feel superior, sure, but don’t get demoralized because someone pointed out a minor mistake or inaccuracy: it’s just an opportunity to learn more stuff.
There is no reason to let falsehoods uncorrected, it’s a shame people can’t read intentions properly and get annoyed.
Well, it’s the internet, you can’t fully convey intentions through text alone and there is actually a subset of people that do point out errors just to stroke their ego (or worse, they’re confidently wrong about their sources and are talking out of their ass). I do wish that people would be more accepting of factchecking and similia (grammar errors are something that you absolutely can’t point out without being lynched, and that makes me livid), but I can’t really blame them too much when they aren’t.
Agreed.