Airedale comments on Reasons for someone to "ignore" you - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Wei_Dai 08 October 2012 07:50PM

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Comment author: Airedale 08 October 2012 11:33:23PM 3 points [-]

This may overlap with some of the other issues listed, but I think it comes from a slightly different place mentally/emotionally: They're purposefully trying to disengage early rather than getting into a fight about who has the "last word" on the subject, e.g., on some level they may want to respond or even to "win" the exchange, but they're purposefully telling themselves to step away from the computer.

Comment author: aelephant 09 October 2012 12:20:12PM 2 points [-]

I have consciously done this before. Especially growing up, I was always obsessed with "being right".