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Most of the time, people get barked at when they write things that display a lack of understanding that merits a stumbling and exploratory approach, but instead is presented as if it were a revelation...
Isn't this just an even more obvious exemplar of that lack of understanding? In that case, isn't it kind of likely that the barking is going to leave that poster pissed off and thinking that the barkers "just don't get my MAD SKILLZ"?
I would argue that thinking it's a scary place is more perception than fact...
I'm not one of those who finds the Head Shop a scary place, as such - over my head a bit, yes, but not scary. But first of all, 'scary' and 'intimidating' are necessarily a matter of perception. When this point might need addressing is when or if that perception becomes practical consensus - when the number of people voicing identical or similar views becomes difficult to ignore, and when attempts to do so take on a disingenously blinkered aspect. *
I should point out that I'm not sure if that practical consensus has happened or is happening, and I don't know whether addressing that would involve a change of remit of the forum, a reconsideration of attitude of some of the more established posters on the forum, or a tacit admission that the Head Shop is really only for a small percentage of Barbelith's members, or anything else - just trying to consider the structure of the complaint.
* I should also point out that I consider this to be one of the fundamental ways in which the recurring 'Barbeclique' complaint should be handled - it's a matter of perception, and when enough people appear to be independently perceiving the same social phenomenon, it should be considered as a potentially real thing, rather than dismissed as an old argument motivated by sour grapes or something like that... |
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