If someone on Twitter seems to really dislike you, do the compassionate thing and block them, because it's almost certain they lack the tiny shreds of internal competence required to just stop reading your damn tweets.
I often wonder why such people haven't already simply muted me, and the only answer I can think of is that they enjoy being angry. So strange.
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@vgr has a decent take on this:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/201811/why-you-secretly-enjoy-getting-angry … Therapists tell people this stuff pretty quickly: "Why do I keep doing thing that makes me feel negative emotion X?" "Because you like feeling X."
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Some people just love to hate
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I am inclined to respect their decision to stay angry and not block them. There is always a chance I might say something profound and useful that makes them improve.
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In my particular case, I'm like the trope of the boy pulling a girl's pigtails in kindergarten because he likes her. I tend to criticise/argue with people I like. Negative attention is still attention!
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Maybe they practice reading opinions from without their information bubbles? Through anger and hardship, all for the sake of objectivity?
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I'm being ironic here, of course.
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Here's a
@robinhanson-style explanation that makes sense to me: They want people to see that they care about how bad you are. So they must keep track of your latest bad act. Otherwise, they couldn't visibly attack you for it, so they'd look to their allies like they didn't care. -
This also explains why blocked people so often feel the need to announce that so-and-so blocked them. It preemptively provides cover for them with their allies when they fail to promptly punish so-and-so's next atrocity.
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Of course they enjoy being angry. They don't know that they do though. Specifically there's an adrenaline rush that comes with being angry that people like.
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