Treatment of High Functioning Vs Lower Functioning on W.P
For example, let us say there is someone who is seriously triggered by improper grammar, incorrect punctuation, and poor spelling. I mean, this person could go on for several pages over just one omission of the Oxford Comma, making their triggered state a serious matter. Should everyone then be required to check everything they post against the Manual of Style, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and Roget's Thesaurus? Or should this one person be told to simply shut up and deal with it?
(For the record, I am not that person; but I have worked with editors who were very much like that.)
Where should the boundary be set to define what constitutes a perfectly reasonable prohibition for everyone, and what constitutes a prohibition that inconveniences all but one person?
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Unfortunately there will always be someone we cannot help because they have more problems than we can help them with and it has happened before.
I can specifically think of one user here that had that problem and mods had to ban that user permanent. Me and you fnord knew this user here and on defunct AFF.
Someone can be triggered by cars, unfortunately we can't help them with that because people can't just stop using cars and we can't demand everyone to get rid of their car and ban them from the city and our country so that person won't be triggered.
However in private chat, someone was triggered by the color red, they were getting provoked by my texts because mine were in red. They asked me to please change my font color because they have trauma with blood and red reminds them of that because of the color so I simply changed the color of my texts. Not a big deal. But if everyone was triggered by different colors including the color black to a point where no one can type, well that is a loss cause and we can do nothing about it. Every color of text is a trigger. So who do you think will be banned from that room?
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Son: Diagnosed w/anxiety and ADHD. Also academic delayed.
Daughter: NT, no diagnoses.
Yes, this is an interesting one. There are grammar "nazis" who find (for example) some of my longer posts triggering as I tend to do the NT thing and skip spell check or a cursory punctuation/grammar checks. Part of the problem is that I don't spend that much time on WP and tend to rush my thoughts on canvass (so to speak).
I also had one poster complain about my using "quotes" all the time which I get in the habit of doing for the benefit of those users who have difficulty distinguishing literal Vs metaphorical.
Shouldn't this just be delegated to the mods? simple solution.
But it's an interesting question. I have been trolled in the past and while the trolls involved were warned, I was told to not engage them and to be mindful of not triggering them as well (after all the trolls were autistic and I am not). At the time I was a little frustrated why the mods didn't throw the book at the trolls who were making personal attacks (I wasn't). The reason provided was they were triggered by my views.
But I think we need to know when not to engage/feed trolls, it's one of the skills you need to navigate the world of online forums.
But I am so, so, hungry.
Further, one can be blunt on some topics and more aware of the nuances involve in discussing other topics, meaning one poster can fulfil both of those roles in different interactions.
Definitely, there are people simultanously easily triggered and blunt on WP.
Then you aren't referring to me.
I am emotionally bulletproof.
I have even been called a fake in high school online because they didn't think I could be that innocent and I didn't even know I was being innocent. I was being myself and I was already being called a faker on the internet. I have also been told online I am naïve and there were people online that knew "This is not a troll, just a user who is naïve." So as a result it would make me a target of online meanness and even on here in the past under my old account.
It's possible all these meanies online thought I was a troll so they got provoked by me but to my view, they were just randomly targeting me because they could see I am different somehow.
But troll is just a over used term and it's become to mean "someone I cannot stand and who I find annoying" and if you don't like someone, don't like their opinion, find their posts annoying because of their OCD or communication or naivete and weak social skills.
And I was listed as a vulnerable member here but apparently that list was discontinued or there was never such a list of vulnerable members and I was lied to about it by a former mod.
I think a vulnerable member can be someone who:
Is prone to doing personal attacks because of triggers and misunderstandings
Is prone to being targeted with sly remarks and trollish responses because of misunderstandings
Is prone to getting trollish behavior from users because of misunderstandings
Easily swayed and taken advantage of
Gullible
Bad reading comprehension so they may make off topic responses or do a straw man or do accusations at another user
Mistaken as a troll for reasons above
And maybe more.
And another thing on here I noticed is, people accuse others of being bullies here but those "bullies" also feel they have been bullied here and think their "victims" are their bullies. So both sides think they are both bullies.
I'd drop the word "sly".
It doesn't help matters.
For example, let us say there is someone who is seriously triggered by improper grammar, incorrect punctuation, and poor spelling. I mean, this person could go on for several pages over just one omission of the Oxford Comma, making their triggered state a serious matter. Should everyone then be required to check everything they post against the Manual of Style, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and Roget's Thesaurus? Or should this one person be told to simply shut up and deal with it?
(For the record, I am not that person; but I have worked with editors who were very much like that.)
Where should the boundary be set to define what constitutes a perfectly reasonable prohibition for everyone, and what constitutes a prohibition that inconveniences all but one person?
A pretty extreme example you presented.
Has anything like this ever happened, here?
Argumentum ad absurdum?
A reductive argument?
The example you presented, and how it should be treated, would be clear cut, I would imagine.
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