My NEW thoughts on discussions on wasteof

Now that I’m actually in one, I can see what I forgot to mention, which is two things:

• The repetition. I joked about it a bit in my post joking about imadeanaccount’s definition of “constructiveness”. My definition is anything that adds on to any form of communication, whether a discussion, a joke, a game in the case of the TBGs. Repetition in a discussion isn’t constructive. It doesn’t even have to be the same user, I remember seeing a few users back then who blatantly just went with whatever their favorite “side” said. Even the side I was on did this and I hated every second of it. This is much better but still present in recent times (for one, I don’t see the favorite side thing anymore, separate people are seperate people again :D)

• The sheer amount of posts. This is only made worse by the repetition. Going back to the favorite “side” thing, you can imagine what it’s like for the same 3 people to say the same thing, and then repost each other’s post saying the thing in agreement. I’m glad that’s over. But even still, the posts are way too much. Repost chains are one thing, but they usually contain short amounts of text. Discussions have to actually mean something (or, for some people, at least look like they do). And that’s why I favor comments for actual substantial discussion over reposts.