Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.
Some other communities to consider before posting:
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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Hey, just wanted to follow up and apologize for my shitty tone. It can be easy to forget just how freaking vast the landscape of IT has become, and how it's entirely possible to be a professional with a long history in the field and still have blind spots. Plus it doesn't help that everything keeps trying to hide more and more of the actual details from end users.
Thank you for taking it in stride and politely.
Hey, thanks for the apology, though I wasn't offended.
I am fine with some banter and you also took the time to explain the issue and sort out my links, which I really appreciate.
The other poster was rude in just bashing without explaining the risks, and I was sarcastic back to them, you took the time and helped me, that is the difference.
I hope you will have a great weekend, I have tickets for the Project Hail Mary film for tomorrow evening, and I hope you also get to have some fun.