The type of thing where someone in a general school chat promotes something like the nft collection they are minting and you want to passively aggresivelly respond

  • Lvxferre
    11•2 years ago

    None. I hate pass-aggro; I’d rather be dry (bald-on record) or upfront (plain aggro).

    What I’d do in this case depends mostly on

    1. if I trust some person in power to handle this shit in a smart way. Either one in charge of the group or the school.
    2. how insistent the NFT scammer is.
    3. how much I care about other people in the group that might fall for the NFT scam.

    For #2 and #3, on best hypothesis (no insistence + I don’t care about others) I’d simply answer “not interested”. However, get me motivated enough and I’ll be rather colourful with language usage, to the best that the platform allows me. Such as:

    As I already bloody said over and over and over and over, I do not want your NFT bullshit. “No” means “no” for anyone with basic reading comprehension, unlike you. Your NFTs have zero intrinsic value. You might be able to convince some goddamn morons to join your pyramid scheme, but I’m not doing it. Is this clear??? Stop insisting and fuck off.

    Further links for anyone interested: [link associating NFT bullshit to pyramid schemes], [Wikipedia link explaining pyramid schemes] I heavily recommend you guys to read this before buying anything from this guy.

    Followed by blocking the moron for the sake of my own sanity.

  • BolexForSoup
    10•2 years ago

    A simple “no thanks“ will accomplish that and more. They know exactly what you’re saying because every crypto bro is incredibly defensive, but your plausible deniability is basically 100% airtight and the more they push back against it the more it’ll make others walk away. You just have to 100% lie to their face and say you meant nothing by it.

  • @[email protected]
    52•2 years ago

    I’m so glad I didn’t have to grow up with “a general school chat.” Sounds like a fucking nightmare.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•2 years ago

        I can’t fathom how anyone would enjoy being on a Discord server with more than a few dozen active users, and even then, more than a dozen or so active users at any given time. Above a certain threshold it just becomes noise.

        Unless 97% of them never speak. Which, in my experience, is totally plausible.

        Still. Weird way to do socials with schoolmates, imo. I would have expected students to self-select into smaller friend groups on Discord or TikTok or WhatsApp or Snapchat or whatever the hell people use now. Not coalesce into one giant digital town square. Not knockin’ it, though. Seems like a neat idea.

      • @[email protected]
        13•2 years ago

        That’s…odd.

        But then again smart phones weren’t a thing when I was in school so most of this kinda stuff seems odd to me. I’m with the other guy, I’m glad I never had to deal with any nonsense resembling this.

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 years ago

    For NFT specifically I’d link the olive garden NFT project and encourage people to mint those unlimited bread sticks.

  • @[email protected]
    9•2 years ago

    If it’s a conservative or religious person trying to justify something:

    “That’s really interesting, why do you think –insert brief summary of their topic/first sentence– ?”

    Continue this until they realize they’ve either painted themselves into a corner or they realize I’m trolling them several monologues/pages later. It’s the uno reverso card when they try wasting my time.