• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    There’s definitely a contingent of people that feel viscerally repulsed by “cringe”. They can’t handle it.

    They need exposure therapy, we should be cringier.

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      I don’t think it can be corrected with exposure therapy as the main instrument. There’s a deeper element of reactionary sentiment that extends far past the ability to address indirectly for most people. It needs to be fought directly.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Yeah you’re probably right. In that case there’s either yelling at them or calmly explaining to them why it’s reactionary. I lean towards yelling more often than being calm but both can be useful depending on circumstances. Yelling is probably less useful if we want to like not make people leave because it’s always a bad experience here or whatever.

        • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          I agree that not yelling is generally better, but my stance is that it can’t just be dealt with reactively, it should be brought up as its own subject and discussed with the user base so we can make a policy and deliberate effort toward altering the culture of the site.

          And remove some emojis.