Referencing actual experiments would have vastly improved the OP, although it still wouldn't say anything original. But that would've made the ridiculously broad generalisation from prison culture to any-kind-of-group-behaviour/forum-culture blatantly obvious, instead of obscuring it with Freudian speculate-by-anecdote nonsense.Badme wrote:If anyone here hasn't heard of the Milgram experiment and the Stanford Prison one, they're an examination of what coberst is getting at, applied to real-life.
IMHO 'perhaps you mean... (something worthwhile)' is justified, for newbies at least. '(ignore vapid OP) Now that we're on the subject, we could talk about interesting studies x, y and z' is excessively indulgent and encourages timewasters.Spyder wrote:The fact that we're now having to invent ways of giving the topic further consideration proves, in definition, the vaccuous nature of what Coberst has posted and thus legitimises the complaints levied.