Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Not to be that guy. But please do your due diligence. And at least try to vet a source before you post it.
I get it. Hopium, confirmation bias and all that is awesome. It feels great.
But we are in an information war people. Lies abound. And there are a great many people out there who are extremely good liars.
And there’s also a great many people who set out to make others, particularly Anons, look stupid. Whether for their own amusement or under the orders of someone else.
And that’s not even considering the rise of increasingly realistic AI voices and Video and how increasingly difficult it will be to discern reality from lies.
In a war not only for the minds but also our reputations.
Hear, hear!
FYI, re: a contrast between hopium, confirmation bias, etc, and what we anons should more importantly focus on aka strengthening and applying our discernment muscles, vetting sauce, diligence and best practice, etc., as a contrast between 'hopium' and 'hopermectin' (patent pending).
See also: Hopermectin vs Hopium
Hopermectin: its a silly little phrase that will likely never catch on, but I think it effectively illustrates the need to eschew hopium for more substantive, best-anon-practice based approaches to the information war.
I love hopermectin! 💞
And dont forget to report posts that you think are fake.