讨论时请少给你自己贴标签 | Keep Your Identity Small
February 2009 I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions. 我今天终于弄明白了为什么唯独政治和宗教总会产生如此多无用的口水。 As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums? 一般说来,论坛上面的只要牵涉到宗教都会变味,演变成一场有关宗教的口水战。这是为什么?为什么人们在论坛谈信仰的时候就会发生这事,而谈Javasacript或是面包烘烤技艺时等此类事情时却不会演变口水大战。 What’s different about religion is that people don’t feel they need to have any particular expertise to have opinions about it. All they need is strongly held beliefs, and anyone can have those. No thread about Javascript will grow as fast as one about religion, because people feel they have to be over some threshold of expertise to post comments about that. But on religion everyone’s an expert. 信仰之所以演变成口水大战是因为参与者觉得他们无须任何特定的专门知识就可以它发表看法。他们所需要的只是拥有一种强烈的信念,而信念这东西每个人 都不缺。讨论Javascript帖子的楼层永远盖不过些信仰贴。因为网民们总觉得要想对Javascript话题作评论,他们还需要迈过专业知识这道门 槛。但是,一旦涉及信仰,人人都觉得自己是专家。 ...