Morendil comments on A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness - Less Wrong
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Agree, second, and applaud.
I've mostly thought of this as a matter of economy. To quote something I wrote quite a while ago, elsewhere:
Being rude is essentially being negative, with an additional effort to deliberately violate the conditions of felicity of whatever form of conversation is being used.
You could also cite (though I can't dig up a link right now) those studies recently published claiming that feeling rejected lowers people's IQ by a substantial amount.
Not an appropriate thing to do when you're trying to leverage collective intelligence; and if your aim isn't to leverage collective intelligence, why are you wasting your valuable time and talents posting on a public forum ?
If you do happen upon that link, please reply to this comment so I can check out the study.
Here is a news story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2051-rejection-massively-reduces-iq.html - I haven't tracked down the actual papers.
"Recently published" turns out to be false memory, but I'm sure I saw the story pop up somewhere recently.
From http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/baumeister.dp.html
Baumeister, R.F., Twenge, J.M., & Nuss, C. (in press/2002). Effects of social exclusion on cognitive processes: Anticipated aloneness reduces intelligent thought. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/pdfmail.php Is his site which allows you to get pdfs of his papers e-mailed to you.
I'm hoping that's the right study that you're talking about?
Aside: What? Why? That is very odd.
Kinda makes sense in a way. Usually authors are forbidden from putting the 'final' version of a journal paper on their website* but are more than willing to email you a copy if you ask nicely. I don't see why automating the emailing process should cause any legal problems. Of course, I'm only speculating, there might be other reasons.
*one woman in our department always refuses to correct 'color'/'colour' in publications for american journals so that she has an draft she can put on her website which is almost identical to the final version
Yep. Thanks.