Grinds my gears.

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Whenever I see someone asks a question that has some flaws to it. A smartass would respond to them saying they should "get some help." Referring to therapy. It's not even in a genuine tone and I doubt they even care about the poster's mental health. They aren't even depressed. Unsurprisingly, I often see this on Reddit.

As a mentally ill person, I personally find this kind of attitude abliest and demeaning. I do agree that some questions have consequences and it's worth pointing them out. But do we seriously need to tell someone to get therapy over that? It's barely constructive criticism at all.

Usually a sign that the discussion is devolving into personal attacks.

It is hard to help someone online. I can do it because I have decades of experience in special interests and can figure out the problem based on very sketchy and incomplete information because I have been there and done that.

Thats pretty much par for the course on Reddit and the Internet....I mostly just lurk on there....I am too afraid to post too much there. People tend to be meaner on the internet because people dont know who they are.

It's been referred to as online disinhibition, psychologist John Suler coined the term as well as outlining the factors that contribute.

Dissociative anonymity, when an online presence and their real identity can't be linked, people can say anything without fear of reprocussion

Invisibility, not being able to see the other party can reduce social inhibitions

Asynchronicity, the delay of online communications means people dont have to immediately face the reactions of others.

Basically this is good and bad. The bad is the seemingly never ending amount of trolls on the internet like the ones OP mentioned. The good however, is that anonymity can allow people to seek help online where they wouldn't have the courage to do so face to face.

Simply telling someone to get some help is a very smart-a$$ response. Getting therapy is not that easy or affordable for some people for various reasons. Plus some people have had bad experiences in therapy or just found it a waste of time. A$$holes not bothering to understand or care is one of the reasons I tend to stick to posting about things online on support group type places like this forum.

How Reddit treated AMD's flagship 7900xtx as something to be avoided while lying their asses off, When the 7900xtx beats the 5080 by 5 ~ 20% at 1440P/4K while being much cheaper like £780 vs the 5080 being £1499. Also how vile they were about It RT performance was shocking as well since If you point out the 4 games that push RT are Nvidia focused cue personal attacks, While the Nvidia fanboys ignore the PS5 having no issues with RT while using RDNA 2 based 6700xt.