Welcome to the internet where everyone has the potential to give you unsolicited commentary.
Depending on the day and mood of the individual, it will be troll-like, helpful, or meaningless (this list is not exhausted). This risk exists with each piece of content that is created. The ideal circumstance is that the commentary aligns with the motivation and/or goal of the content.
Now in the case, the two don't align, you are not obligated to respond. (A reaction is guaranteed to occur, which includes no action.)
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So what I don't understand is when content creators get fed up with the commentary that doesn't align with the mood they created.
Like isn't the obvious answer to just not share the content!? Especially if you are not willing to take the risk.
Or is this how echo chambers/filter bubbles are created? The idea that like minded find each other and never question the narrative.
If that is the case, then that is a sad potential of internet.
@barefootstache
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Some points with yours overall...
- It's not always clear what writer is saying
- It's not always clear what writer is wanting (if it's Aral Balkan type bait and then you realise what mood they are in, are they looking for help, no, do they announce 'as if' they need help or clarification but don't want it or even appreciate it. Yes.
- Do they regularly just say it out loud like in my experience women do but they don't want help. Need practise whoever you are but females I've heard most often in this way.
- People are genuinely learning themselves to interact
- People are genuinely learning themselves how to even learn (seems basic but actually it's a self thing which we have little chance but to 'use' other people since we are human needing other humans)
- People are triggered, ALL of us are triggered / triggerable... we need to assume that always AND give space for that (if you agree it's inescapable the bullshit and fakery we've come from in life and it take many years to uncover it and ALL of us go round about ways to realising or coming to terms with it or just coping even with avalanche of new even-worse stuff)
- echo chamber are not just internet for example... and while it's not great it's probably humanity again in a different form... again I believe we are coming out of it
- Paradoxes or barriers/boundaries exist where even I find I want to share and then soon as someone wants music I'm scared to given them all my best one's and feel I might 'devalue' myself by giving it so 'cheaply' having just spent time collecting it, renaming it, remixing (but other artists making it for the most part!)
- Yes lots of feelings happen on a knife edge / paradox type thnig
And yes things can generally be sad if you feel you have no say / power in doing something about it
But generally I believe we do have power and quickly can magnify each other... though the start I'd compare to starting a fire manually... seems like it's never going to happen UNTIL IT DOES!
P.S
Not sure why you used a horizontal line - seems like a statement in first half (possibly someone else's) then a line then 2nd half is your commentary
perhaps...
Probably goes without saying that you might be disheartened or disappointed with current state of game.
@barefootstache
Good not to mix gender - I'm also generally open to gender and even sexism-sounding-comments as I wouldn't mind being pointed our where I'm wrong (if one doesn't say then it doesn't get sorted). I prefer to change my thoughts so if we're both not triggered then we could make separate space for that (and then it's clearer what we are doing and to outsiders also more clear AND possibly they might answer). Of course same-same genders or preferences might create a echo-chamber itself but again I've found how that can be natural and ok (Patriarchy not so ok for example but same same is ok)
Echo-chambers can also be a form of revising / renewing / a phase for individuals or just wanting to be accepted / power pyramids... all that good stuff in between :)
Again once it's clear and some safe space (like talking in my audio 'podcasts' then basically all is good / momentary but reflective-progressive)
I guess being 'static' or in same loop makes this period of echo elongated / extended otherwise it would be ok to challenge stuff a bit more and then realise where to get out and what to keep from each 'chamber' like a bee going around collecting stuff.
@freeschool yes your assumption of the horizontal line is correct. Sometimes I use it after going off on a tangent to continue with the original storyline.
Come to think about it from whom I got the idea is a women, though I try to keep sex/gender out of internet conversations.
In the end it is fascinating how we consider echo chambers as a negative condition although it is our biology that installed it in the first place. It creates a form of safety and thus gives us a higher chance of survival. Like back in the day with tribes.
Now wondering if lots of conflicts in this world is due to collision of echo chambers.