if lowtax's widow said she felt like lowtax had possessed me based on my behavior I'd throw every internet connected device I own in a pit
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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Yes, I kind of get that this is the point of the "person enters Waffle house, assumes people hate pancakes" anecdote. I just don't understand how "WAFFLES" could be seen as not only a clever comeback, but a comeback at all.
She started a thread about Bluesky content moderation policy, someone asks about Bluesky content moderation policy, and she retorts by yelling WAFFLES.
Does she mean "you are acting like that guy from the waffle house anecdote that I just posted", even though that guy was complaining about pancakes? Or is she trying to insist that "this is a place to talk about waffles, not pancakes"? Is it just a "let me remind you of my anecdote", and she reads the fable of the waffle house pancake man as a moral story about how people should shut up about banning bigots? Even though this is not the point of the anecdote at all?
Or does it simply not make sense, and I'm overthinking it? Did I snooze, and it is now not a criteria that things should make sense at all any more?
My reading of it was that, while yes she was talking about moderation policy, it was specifically with regards to a different issue within the larger window of their policy. So someone replying in regards to a different policy under the same window was a distraction from the specific topic she was trying to discuss.
So she kinda misunderstood the anecdote?
Its not "Bluesky user enters Waffle house, begins talking about pancakes. Waiter starts shouting at him, berating him for talking about anything other than waffles".
It's almost like she read the anecdote and her takeaway was "hell yes I hate pancakes".
Thanks for taking the time to explain me this stuff, I'm usually pretty quick with social cues but this just left me feeling completely dumb.
Edit: I see in your explanation you flipped waffles and pancakes around (why do you hate waffles), maybe she did the same and just decided to stick with it. Or maybe she just had a public meltdown and it doesn't need to make sense, I was just weirded out by how people kinda pretended like it did.