Yo this moderator is causing Chat pollution by banning, unbanning, muting and unmuting random people (this actually does not work because it only shows up for the mod as i have found out)
by man122222222222222222222222222 March 16, 2024

A person entering a, usually controversial, discussion with the most surface-level, stereotype-based, and hyperbolic arguments possible. Their take then becomes the easy go-to meme response that spreads, resulting in a form of Flanderization for the discussion as a whole, cutting any nuance or complexity to the discourse and adding undeserved importance to it.
Some of the more prevalent examples of this are in discussions of Fermi's paradox, where the go to is, "Aliens don't talk to us because we're stupid," despite how much it's implying about the aliens in question. And arguments about America not using the metric system, with the reason often being, "Americans are too stupid and lazy to understand it," forcing a stereotype and ignoring any actual reasons the US hasn't switched over.
Since these arguments are often done for quick validation, they often have little to no research backing them either due to overconfidence of being right, or an unconscious fear of having to think complexly.
Some of the more prevalent examples of this are in discussions of Fermi's paradox, where the go to is, "Aliens don't talk to us because we're stupid," despite how much it's implying about the aliens in question. And arguments about America not using the metric system, with the reason often being, "Americans are too stupid and lazy to understand it," forcing a stereotype and ignoring any actual reasons the US hasn't switched over.
Since these arguments are often done for quick validation, they often have little to no research backing them either due to overconfidence of being right, or an unconscious fear of having to think complexly.
commenter 1: omfg why don't Americans just switch to metric already, why are they too dumb to do government.
commenter 2: You could leave and google how states' rights work, fucking discussion pollution.
commenter 2: You could leave and google how states' rights work, fucking discussion pollution.
by dirtwashere April 9, 2023


by atmospheric pollution January 6, 2022

when people create emailing list trying to sell stuff no one wants, wasting time and space on the world wide web.
I am sick of getting emails from people I don't know trying to sell me stuff i don't want. All these people are doing is contributing to world wide web pollution.
by Hplar Renraw April 16, 2018

Polluted Cow is how the world will look like in years from now. It will destroy our planet. It is our inevitable future
by jajacoro12 October 22, 2019

The effect achieved when people unnecessarily reply-all to an email that only required a standard reply, unnecessarily filling everyone's inbox with unneeded crap.
There goes Jim again, constantly creating reply-all pollution. I wish he realized there are 100 other people on this email chain who don't care!
The reply-all pollution on this team is suffocating!
The reply-all pollution on this team is suffocating!
by Metaphoru September 25, 2020
