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lil  ·  4003 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski, Reposts, and The Better Angels Of Our Nature

    Is my post pointless? What do you think?

Since you asked, pretty much yes. If your real life friend kept asking you the same question, you'd get pissed off.

You might say:

"Weren't you listening? You just asked me that!" or you might whine "You never listen to me."

On the other hand, if you and a bunch of friends were belly-up at the bar of reason and sanity, you'd probably just move on to another drink and another conversation at the other end of the bar.





thenewgreen  ·  4003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I suppose there are some questions that will get posted often, because they're interesting topics and get to the heart of #thehumancondition. "Tell me about your first love" is probably one of those. It's unrealistic that people go through the catalog of past posts to see if it has already been discussed. Plus, some newbies could belly up to that bar and therefore there will be an entirely new discussion, new insights etc.

lil  ·  4003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    some newbies could belly up to that bar and therefore there will be an entirely new discussion, new insights etc.
Depends on what they've been drinking.

We don't have to read or answer any questions that we don't want to. Anyone who posts a question or contributes an answer does so because it is new to them. Don't feel obliged to re-answer if you answered somewhere else.

_refugee_  ·  4003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It felt very navel-gaze-y.

I'm also not convinced that hubski is the bar of sanity. Reason perhaps but I'm much more convinced we're all a little off-kilter and some more than others, than on it.