Effective technique for not getting involved with thoughts and emotions.
Correction: it’s acceptance commitment therapy.
By the way, not fusing with thoughts and emotions is the core of mindfulness and is pretty powerful.
Thoughts and emotions that bubble up to your consciousness is mostly clickbait - they got selected precisely because they’re exaggeration’s fabricated to make you pay attention.
The best guidelines for any forum/network I've seen is that from Hacker News.
And the wonderful thing is that these guidelines actually work - Hacker News is the most inspiring and thoughtful forum out there.
Other networks like Twitter can learn a thing or two from it.
Sidenote: the massive work of moderating this long list of guidelines is done by ONE person.
Though increasingly we can have LLMs (like ChatGPT) interpret such guidelines and try to provide feedback to people before they make low-effort, clickbaity, rage-inducing comments.
The guidelines are worth reading in full and internalizing if you want to be a more thoughtful communicator.
• For the non-creator, it appears that the world is falling apart as they see extreme, hot takes all around them as nuanced, well-balanced content is seldom promoted by the algorithm