There's a real aggression from #HashtagGateKeepers

I'm reading #JonathanCook's substack about someone supposedly pulling apart one of his articles and it got me thinking https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/were-rearranging-the-deck-chairs?publication_id=476450&post_id=136900895&isFreemail=true&r=u5e3c&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

You get these #ReplyGuys who just turn up, take offence, then accuse you of someone based on a single post

For example, so a-hole accused me of being pro-war - without bothering to check how nothing I post is pro-war

It's an aggressive #gaslighting, it shouldn't be tolerated and should be called out

You should definitely use #AltText because otherwise you'll get a load of #ReplyGuys pretending they care about such things so they have an excuse to nitpick and criticise you.

Should I just start baiting #ReplyGuys?

On the other hand, I find myself having to examine every post with a hermeneutic multiplexity before I post it. Spontaneity go POOOOF! So they do my nut in.

On the other, is it mean to bait them?

All you need to do is pretend to get something wrong about Linux and they'll be queuing up.

Like the old saying goes, it's like shooting fish in a barrow.

I just had to delete a cartoon because I was starting to get numerous #ReplyGuys telling me that, wait for it...

CAPITALISM IS BAD!

The disease of Mastodon is mediocre cishet white men thinking they have to chime in on every fucking thing they see.

Mast = REPLY GUY CENTRAL.

Oh boy, reply guys are real. I was just reminded that this really is some people’s default. I became way too angry about it after having a great day out with my kiddos.

#ReplyGuys

I guess I’ve reached some new level of visibility on Mastodon, since I get my (still admittely small) share of #replyguys nowadays.

But why complain!

I, for one, welcome my new Reply Guy Overlords™!

#ReplyGuys - mansplaining common sense and solving problems no one asked for their help with since forever

The trouble with #lemmy is it's given all the obtuse #replyGuys if #reddit an onramp to the #fediverse

Is there a category for the type of #ReplyGuys who reply to a post just to say they are specifically *not interested in the topic* of your post?

(Bonus if they also do not follow you. Yet replied to your post. In which they are not interested.)

My least favorite thing about the #Fediverse is how you can't say something is wrong with the Fediverse without a bunch of #replyGuys jumping in your mentions to tell you that no it is *YOU* who are wrong for wanting the Fediverse to be different.

When you tell the Internet you have a problem, and then someone replies trying to help, don't look a gift horse in the mouth by negatively criticizing their suggestion you ingrate.

Thank them for going out of their way to try to help, tell them which parts of their suggestion you liked, and then tell them the rest of what you haven't yet communicated about your problem.

Because that's the real problem here; your communication skills, not the #replyGuys

#shoutout #to #all #the #replyguys #that #keep #telling #me #to #use #hashtags #for #visibility #because #mastodon #definitely #needs #more #obnoxious #posts #like #this

I really miss the #UFC / #MMA fighters on #Twitter that will be live tweeting during #UFC284

But what I don't miss is that 95% of most recent timeline messages tagged with whatever #PPV is happening are just links to shady faux #livestream sites that are just littered with #virus payloads

I also don't miss the #replyguys with 7 numbers after their name throwing around the worst #hottake macho garbage known to man

@mergerson First she had to deal with Gaetz yesterday, and then the worst of the pack, Gosar, whose own family hates him.

She's entirely too intelligent, and with way more common sense for their shit. But I suppose these "Well, actually..." #replyguys still operate under the assumption that, because she is BIPOC and a woman, they're smarter than she. 🙄 😡

Apparently we need all 500 characters here to add all the useless details of a joke, that should be assumed by anyone capable of rational thought, so they don't foam at the mouth, explaining how you are the problem, rather than their self-reflection truth that hit a little too close to home for them.
But yes, I am the dick. 🙄

#ReplyGuys