"Netpicking" is a type of obfuscation and/or nitpicking that generally derives from overfocus on tangential or irrelevant aspects of something as posted on the internet.
"Netpicking" is extremely common in internet message board style exchanges where words and images can be misinterpreted (intentionally or unintentionally), and dissected for technical or semantic inaccuracies, flaws, loopholes, or exploitable phraseologies.
While the "netpick" may be well-intentioned and innocent at times, it's more often used as a defense mechanism in flame wars and debates. The purpose is to ignore the greater, more obvious point, and instead redirect the discussion to something that probably shouldn't even be up for debate.
Other forms of the "netpick" manifest as pointles and often cruel hypercriticism based on "online-only" standards of excellence, beauty, competence, etc. held by the netpicker, who is most likely nowhere near a position to be judging anyone else by said standards.
"Fail" vs "Win" mentality is often a symptom of "netpickers", who rely on the buffer of anonymous internet identities to protect them from the constant hyper-scrutiny they heap upon others, merely for the purpose of entertainment through pointlessly negative commentary.
"Netpicking" is extremely common in internet message board style exchanges where words and images can be misinterpreted (intentionally or unintentionally), and dissected for technical or semantic inaccuracies, flaws, loopholes, or exploitable phraseologies.
While the "netpick" may be well-intentioned and innocent at times, it's more often used as a defense mechanism in flame wars and debates. The purpose is to ignore the greater, more obvious point, and instead redirect the discussion to something that probably shouldn't even be up for debate.
Other forms of the "netpick" manifest as pointles and often cruel hypercriticism based on "online-only" standards of excellence, beauty, competence, etc. held by the netpicker, who is most likely nowhere near a position to be judging anyone else by said standards.
"Fail" vs "Win" mentality is often a symptom of "netpickers", who rely on the buffer of anonymous internet identities to protect them from the constant hyper-scrutiny they heap upon others, merely for the purpose of entertainment through pointlessly negative commentary.
"Fritz totally ignored my point about abortion's effect on society, and started going off about the definition of 'society'! He was clearly just netpicking."
"I don't care if she has sharp knees. She's hot, and YOUR last date had to be crated at the end of the night. Stop netpicking."
"I don't care if she has sharp knees. She's hot, and YOUR last date had to be crated at the end of the night. Stop netpicking."
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Brian: I decided to block myself out of social interaction, so I locked myself in my house went Netflixing.
Brian: I decided to block myself out of social interaction, so I locked myself in my house went Netflixing.
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Get the Netflixing mug.similar to drunk dialing or drunk texting, it's when you are drunk and add items to your netflix queue. you don't realize you added the items until you receive a dvd in the mail that you have no memory of requesting.
you go to the mailbox and open your red envelope ready to watch the next episode of "it's always sunny in philadelphia", only to find that you have "marley and me" instead. and you're like WTF! how did this shit get in my queue?! i must have been drunk netflixing last week.
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Get the Netflixing mug.Reed Hastings, Steve Swasey and all their investor fanboys laughed piggishly as they gathered around the gargantuan mahogony conference table to pitch new ways of Netflixing their hardworking loyal customers.
"Maybe we can Netflix our customer base by jacking the rates again right around Christmas this time," said Hastings
"I can tell the public the total 78% price hike from two seperate increases since last September amount to no more than two lattes at Starbucks. A mere triffle. Hahahaa" said Swasey
(Chorous Laughter and Guffaws from the boardroom stacked with fat, double chinned, sweaty, corporate shills )
"I'm so tired of getting netflixed every 4 months just to stream these crappy "whimsy, romantic, cerebral comedies based on award winning Burkino Fasan biographies" that Netflix recommends. And why the hell am Ipaying to recieve stream these "new" releases 10 months after Amazon Prime and Redbox have them?" said the Ex Netflix customer
"Maybe we can Netflix our customer base by jacking the rates again right around Christmas this time," said Hastings
"I can tell the public the total 78% price hike from two seperate increases since last September amount to no more than two lattes at Starbucks. A mere triffle. Hahahaa" said Swasey
(Chorous Laughter and Guffaws from the boardroom stacked with fat, double chinned, sweaty, corporate shills )
"I'm so tired of getting netflixed every 4 months just to stream these crappy "whimsy, romantic, cerebral comedies based on award winning Burkino Fasan biographies" that Netflix recommends. And why the hell am Ipaying to recieve stream these "new" releases 10 months after Amazon Prime and Redbox have them?" said the Ex Netflix customer
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