It's hard to choose the relationship before you know the person well. Reasoned debate is something anyone can join, whether or not they know the participants.

There are lots of normal social interactions on here amongst those of us who have gotten to know each other well.

Undisciplined

culture

thoughts around verbal politeness

adlai

irl deciding not to turn every tension into a showdown is not cowardice, it’s choosing relationship over performance, on sn it’s mostly optimized for _reasoned debate_ myself and @Undisciplined were talking about this earlier, interesting everyone noticing this as well