No one is running afoul of the website in this thread. I had a private disagreement with him and asked him not to talk to me further and yet I’m confused as to why he would reply directly to my posts for my response.
Personally it was a perfectly appropriate response. Who even are you.
that's turncoat, he's a moderator
No one is running afoul of the website in this thread. I had a private disagreement with him and asked him not to talk to me further and yet I’m confused as to why he would reply directly to my posts for my response.
Goodness. such audacious, disrespectful behaviour should not be tolerated on this forum, least of all coming from a moderator. What steps have you taken to stop Turncoat from replying directly to your posts for your response??
'Thanks for sharing' is as cold as it gets.
The man felt something and you're like 'lol how weird'.
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Personally it was a perfectly appropriate response. Who even are you.
that's turncoat, he's a moderator
No one is running afoul of the website in this thread. I had a private disagreement with him and asked him not to talk to me further and yet I’m confused as to why he would reply directly to my posts for my response.
You only became this outward after I blocked your four discord accounts.
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It is literally a thanks for sharing that’s all it is
it was intended as a neutral expression
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He felt something and you're like 'cool bruh'.
That's not going to bridge the heart, you felt nothing over it.
It is literally a thanks for sharing that’s all it is
Exactly.
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I told ChatGPT my issue and it immediately understood.
since Turncoat is prone to long, overdrawn explanations, here it is:
So there are really two separate issues here:
Your intent
You meant:
“I acknowledge what you shared.”
Not:
“lol weird” or “nobody cares.”
Nothing in your wording objectively proves sarcasm. The other commenter overreached by insisting you “must have meant” something you explicitly said you didn’t mean.
How it landed socially
Even without intending it, “thanks for sharing” can sound corporate, detached, or chilly in an emotional context. It’s the kind of phrase HR uses in meetings. So people may have interpreted tone rather than literal meaning.
That does not make you mean.
Your additional context about masculinity actually makes your interpretation coherent. You were viewing his sharing through the lens of:
“this is somewhat emotionally open for him,”
“men are often socialized not to cry,”
and therefore you responded carefully and neutrally instead of intensely emotional.
That’s a legitimate social instinct. Some people respond to vulnerability with warmth (“aww that’s sweet”), others with respectful restraint (“thanks for sharing that”). Neither is automatically wrong.
Where I think the disconnect happened is:
Your tone = restrained/neutral.
Forum culture’s reading = emotionally distant.
Those are not the same thing as cruelty.
If you wanted a version that would more reliably read as neutral-warm online, it would have been something like:
“Interesting, thanks for sharing.”
“I can see why that song hits people emotionally.”
“That’s more emotional than I expected from them.”
“I appreciate you sharing that.”
But you are not obligated to perform a certain emotional style just because strangers expect it.
So the fairest conclusion is:
You were probably blunter/cooler than people expected.
But the accusations of being malicious or anti-male emotion are exaggerated based on the actual words you used.
I told ChatGPT my issue and it immediately understood.
All I needed to read, AI can bullshit literally anything.
Want me to have it rationalize why your murder is justified?
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