How To Avoid Being An Ass In The Comments Section
10 basic etiquette tips
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4 min readSep 5, 2024
- Don’t lecture or moralize. It’s not a teaching podium. It’s a comments section. It’s also not your story. It is their story. Try your best not to be an Ass.
- Don’t grandstand. We know you think you are the Bee’s Knees. We know you can’t get enough of yourself. We know you have to tell all of us about your IQ score and your Academic qualifications every chance you get. Most people would call this insecurity with a capital ‘I’. But nevermind that. You do you. Just do it on your own story. Not somebody else’s.
- There are two appropriate places to take a dump — your bathroom and your drafts page. Don’t do it on someone’s comments’ section. That’s like taking a dump on your neighbor’s lawn. Seriously. It’s just basic etiquette.
- If you have an urge to be an Ass, hit the ‘write’ icon and bray for as long as you please on the blank white page. That’s what it’s there for! You can post pictures of yourself front and center on all of your stories, sell yourself as a Self-Help Guru, and lecture away until the cows come home. You can even write cock-eyed unpopular opinions about how only parents with children can make good leaders since cat ladies and men without children by nature clearly are selfish animals who are incapable of demonstrating empathy for…
