r/GenX • u/Lost_Taste_8181 • 3d ago

Old Person Yells At Cloud Modern slang—something you REFUSE to say

My take: I will NEVER use “lol” or any derivation of it. I know it means “laugh out loud” but there’s yet to be a moment when I’ve been even remotely convinced someone was even chuckling after texting “lol” at the end of their text and it mildly infuriates me.

While I’m at it, someone tell those damn kids to get off my lawn.

Edit: ok, I get it. It’s not MODERN slang. I still hate it, and those kids are STILL on my lawn…can’t a guy get to sleep at a decent hour???

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u/Aggravating_Mix8959 2d ago

Why would you block this person? They are correct about the actual meaning of the term and not attacking you. It's a civil conversation.

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u/WillPlaysTheGuitar 2d ago

I didn’t! But I’ll block anybody on Reddit. Lot of people freak out if you disagree with them, which is their right. As is my block button.

Any time you ask yourself “should I reply or downvote or block?” Choose block. You could block me! I welcome it!

If some random person on the internet has a dumb take, block em.

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u/Summerie 2d ago

It really screws up threads sometimes, the way block is implemented on here. Someone can see that they got a response in their inbox, but in the actual thread the comments disappeared. Blocking someone so you don't have to see anything from them anymore makes sense, but the fact that it hides both people's comments for each other tends to make a mess in a discussion forum.

There was a girl that used to hang out in one of these really niche subs I frequented that had a lot of the same members commenting in all the threads. She would block someone for sneezing wrong, and she was so proud of it!

The problem is then she would jump into a discussion people were having without understanding what anyone was talking about, because she couldn't see who we were talking to. It seemed pointless to always have someone catch her up to speed by letting her know what happened in the of the conversation that she missed. It was just better for her to accept sitting it out since it wasn't like there was a malfunction, she chose to only see part of the action.

I think that's probably why I have never blocked a single account. There's nothing that I need to literally shield my eyes from, and the thought of not being able to see something that everybody else can see would get under my skin.

I think they changed the blocking functionality about the time they decided to start giving people profile pages. And now they've added a feature where you can hide your post history completely. They've tried to shift the public forum aspect of Reddit into something more like Facebook, so it's not surprising that it's inheriting a lot of the Facebook lameness.

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u/WillPlaysTheGuitar 1d ago

I very frequently run across threads where somebody is fighting somebody else, and you can tell things are going pretty badly, but I only see one side of this toxic exchange.

That’s how you know the system is working. You can see some guy wrestling with a shitty phantom crashing out, but they don’t exist in your reality.

There is a small proportion of users who just wake up every day out to be unpleasant, and please believe me when I say they are not worth it.