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Originally Posted by gblake
I realize that I'm trying to sweep back the ocean, but ...
I think it would be a good idea for people, in general, to stop worrying about the team someone is on when discussing anything, anywhere, unless the explicit topic being discussed is that person's team.
I know that there is a big, deep, and broad pool of sentiment that connects what individuals do to to observers' opinions about the entire team that *happens* to include that individual; but please; teams rarely get to choose their members, and teams with non-trivial membership rolls are going to be full of diverse attitudes about plenty of boring and exciting subjects.
If, in general, we spent more time discouraging a mindset of forming judgments about "teams", instead of "individuals", and invested less mental energy in viewing teams as mono-cultures (or in pushing them to be mono-cultures), I think this thread's topic would lose an important bit of urgency.
Blake
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I think it's less about knowing what team they are from and more about the acc username. And when I see "throwaway" or "anonymous" with a location of "nowhere" posting controversial statements I guess that's when I start to question the content of the post.
It's not like people instantly look at your team number first when they read the content, it of course is the content that they read first. If it is a well thought out post I tend to look at the team that had the insightful commentary just purely as a interesting to know fact. Same for a less than stellar post.
For people who don't want to "protect their team" by not giving their team a bad rep because they post something that may be severely uninformed, and lets be honest actually about this for a second... It's really not that bad when you post controversial things. People do it every day, highly regarded mentors and people that you have never heard of. It's only really bad when you post something colossally incorrect/stupid that people tend to jump on the hating bandwagon (from my point of view). Sure a few people may disagree with you if you say something controversial, but I think the real backlash that people are afraid of is on a much grander scale.
Anyways back to the point. If you are worried about attaching your name to a post, ask yourself if you really should be posting that/is this the right way to express your feelings.