Datapoint: I don’t care for Achmiz’s hostility but I do agree with his point here. There is no polite way to explicitly tell someone you don’t want to communicate. This is a bug that should be fixed. It harms both parties; the silent one can’t indicate that without paying a social cost, and the talkative one can’t really be sure they’re not annoying their counterpart.
(it is possible the talkative one doesn’t actually care if they’re annoying their counterpart. If so, fuck them.)
Datapoint: I don’t care for Achmiz’s hostility but I do agree with his point here. There is no polite way to explicitly tell someone you don’t want to communicate. This is a bug that should be fixed. It harms both parties; the silent one can’t indicate that without paying a social cost, and the talkative one can’t really be sure they’re not annoying their counterpart.
(it is possible the talkative one doesn’t actually care if they’re annoying their counterpart. If so, fuck them.)