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Elliot Temple

I have started ripping minds apart cargo-culting you. People cry when I crit them and even say suicidal things. Should I stop? Should I not call people broken and list a hundred bad things about them when they come to me for help.

you could run some of your criticism by FI. maybe you're mistaken. maybe you're mean. i don't know.
you should learn more philosophy so your criticism can be more accurate and helpful. get more skilled before giving out tons of advice, especially since it's being poorly received!
did these people ask for criticism? i usually criticize the ideas of people who ask for it by coming to my forums, or public figures like authors.
you did say they came to you for help. maybe they didn't know what kind of help you offered though. maybe there's a miscommunication there. i try to be pretty clear about what sort of place FI is but people still have incorrect expectations sometimes.
getting people to cry openly and even say suicidal things out loud (usually people hide those even if they think it) sounds quite extreme and is a big warning sign to pause and reconsider and do more learning.

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Why did you disable the anonymous option?

Jorah Wright
Like I said, I'm not using ask.fm anymore because the site deletes lots of content. Don't ask more questions here. Go to curi.us (my blog) and click "Open Discussion" on the left sidebar and you can ask anonymously there.

Be advised: anonymous questions on ask.fm are not fully anonymous. This is a major security glitch.

curi42’s Profile PhotoElliot Temple
ask.fm has an internal blacklist. If an anonymous question-asker is on the blacklist then your answer doesn't get tweeted out; otherwise it does. This gives you information about whether an asker is on the blacklist or not, which lets you figure out that multiple questions come from the same blacklisted guy (since being blacklisted is uncommon) rather than from new people.

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