• BlueOracle
    +3

    I know exactly what you're taking about and I'm sorry you've had a bad experience with skeptics. They can definitely be dicks. I was hoping to start a non-dickish community here. I agree that places like the Reddit community can be awful, but try not to sour on skepticism all together.

    People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

    - Carl Sagan

    • cheezoncrack
      +5

      I left reddit because of the community. To much crap to sort through to find the stuff that I liked. So far the community here has been very good although a fair bit smaller than reddit and less social, but that will only improve with time. I've learned through a fair bit of reading of conspiracies and UFOs to have an open but skeptic mind, and to keep a good level of objectivity without resorting to logical fallacies or just blatant name calling, something many people have an issue with it seems. Many people are just to much of dicks about how they go about it.