It is really frustrating to talk with someone and get the feeling that they don't mean the things they are saying, that they are just saying things to fill the air, or to placate you, or even worse to manipulate you.
In any interaction with another person, we are trusting them a little that there's a purpose behind the interaction. Who knows where it will go, but we are hoping it isn't just a plot to waste our time.
Like when we start out reading a novel...we are trusting that the story will make sense and that it will be entertaining or teach us something or titillate us or make us think -- anything more than be pointless.
Slop breaks that trust. The thing producing it doesn't have a sense of a point, of sincerity (I suppose you might say it means everything it says equally), and the people who post slop often seem not to have double checked it to guard against this.
So slop is irritating to me because it's not playing by the rules of normal human interaction predicated on sincerity. In that way slop is much more like a scam, and it feels like it.
For me, it has to do with sincerity.
It is really frustrating to talk with someone and get the feeling that they don't mean the things they are saying, that they are just saying things to fill the air, or to placate you, or even worse to manipulate you.
In any interaction with another person, we are trusting them a little that there's a purpose behind the interaction. Who knows where it will go, but we are hoping it isn't just a plot to waste our time.
Like when we start out reading a novel...we are trusting that the story will make sense and that it will be entertaining or teach us something or titillate us or make us think -- anything more than be pointless.
Slop breaks that trust. The thing producing it doesn't have a sense of a point, of sincerity (I suppose you might say it means everything it says equally), and the people who post slop often seem not to have double checked it to guard against this.
So slop is irritating to me because it's not playing by the rules of normal human interaction predicated on sincerity. In that way slop is much more like a scam, and it feels like it.