First post syndrome

GayLubeOil · 2015-07-13T21:27:19+00:00

I have a problem with another type of first post commonly found on asktrp. However sometimes they bleed into the main sub. I call it the: hey guys I'm a hopeless bitch post. It goes something like this.

Hey guys I'm a hopeless bitch . I am extremely shy, short, and shinny. Women don't like me. I'm also indian and/or Chinese, and have feelings of racial inadequacy. There is no way I could ever be Alpha. I tell myself this everyday first thing when I wake up. I look into the bathroom mirrior and yell "Vindaloo you will never be Alpha." Then I cry. Can you guys please help me? Even though it is impossible to help a beta such as myself?

For the love of God stop trying to convince the internet that you are a bitch. Its not helping. Its only reinforcing negative behavior patterns and belief structures. If your going to rub shit on your face do it privately. Dont rub shit on your face while asking random strangers to wipe it off.

If we could eliminate or reduce these kinds of posts TRP would be a better more misogynistic place.

Dsdcimyc · 2015-07-13T21:44:52+00:00

I for one think the words "brothers" and "gentlemen" should be banned from this sub. So cringeworthy.

ScholarInRed · 2015-07-13T19:48:19+00:00

"You are not entitled to your opinion; you are entitled to your informed opinion. Nobody is entitled to be ignorant." ~ Harlan Ellison

"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something." ~ Plato

tits_out_forTheBoys · 2015-07-13T20:24:20+00:00

"My eyes are open now", you say to yourselves. "I can see now that it is all about being Alpha. I need to do what Alphas do, and then I will be Alpha. Alphas are teachers and leaders. I will become Alpha by teaching and leading."

First off, this is true as fuck which is why I find it so funny.

That said, I'm gonna have to take the opposing standpoint on this: I actually prefer it when newbs write their posts with an overconfident mindset.

Sure, some of them don't know wtf they're talking about and just come off as an ass. But there are some newbies who do actually have an idea of what they're talking about, and I would much rather read something with balls-to-the-wall conviction than some sort of "eh, I think this is what's happening, IMO, but I could be wrong. :/"

Regardless of whether the content of the post is shitty or awesome, I think it should always be written like the OP has a big swingin' dick. Because quite honestly, no one wants to read something that was written by someone who lacks any sort of conviction or self-confidence - especially in an anonymous male space.

If the post is great, then it helps the message sink in that much more. If the post sucks, easy as fuck - we report the jackass for writing a shitty post.

But I refuse to support this recent influx of "all newbies need to be humble" type of posts that my fellow EC's have been writing lately. I respect you guys a lot for your work, but come on, you know that it's shitty to completely dismiss the work of other men -- just because they haven't earned the "high honor" of TRP's Reddit flair.

We're above that, my fellow endorsed bros.

I'm a huge proponent that respect is earned, but I think some of us are taking it WAY too far: (a) This is Reddit (i.e. there's worse things in life than "a Redditor who thinks he knows it all!! >:o"), and (b) How can we expect anyone to earn our respect, when we also expect them to show something less than full conviction in their work?

the_red_scimitar · 2015-07-13T23:50:17+00:00

A lot of subs have the new poster problem, where people didn't bother to do a single search of the topic they want to write about. The non-monogamy sub is the worst I know of for this. Almost everyday there is one or more posts on exactly the same thing: "my <bf/gf> wants to open our relationship. I has bad feels. What I do?"

It takes a lot longer than a few months to have anything valuable to add to the discussion on RP. Better to lurk, comment, and really CHANGE yourself, not just report a fluke success or whatever. When it's actually who you are, you'll have something of value.

That said, there is value to encouragement. And to be honest, to whom else are these early (to the poster) RP tales going to be told? Most of us have learned the hard way not to discuss this with our non-RP friends. Perhaps we need more focused subs for some of this.

Also, there seem to be groups of disparate demographics here, who tend to post similar things among their milieu. There's the pre-college crowd, the college crowd, the under-40 (or maybe 35) working crowd, and then the silverbacks. Posts about what your parents did or your teacher are rarely going to be interesting to any but your age demographic. Not sure what we can or even should do about it, but it's another noise factor that's gotten worse as the membership grows.

recon_johnny · 2015-07-14T00:15:34+00:00

STFU is literally the best lesson here.

Upvote_To_The_Left · 2015-07-13T20:20:30+00:00

There's a lot of crap posts, like that guy who made a huge post about going out alone. big fucking deal.

go out alone 4 nights a week for 8 months and bang a new girl every month, then write a post about it. I'm sure that will be much more valuable.

or the guy who said some ex reached out to him and his response was to be a dick because that's alpha. and he provided almost zero justification or background to the relationship. the point of the post was literally "lol look at this girl being desperate, i am an alpha asshole that will treat her like garbage" without any kind of insight or reasoning other than "alpha = asshole = that's what she deserves"

really weak shit. and extremely misguided.

nantucketghost · 2015-07-14T00:09:29+00:00

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Upvote_To_The_Left · 2015-07-14T01:54:04+00:00

Just want to say thank you for doing a good job. without moderation this place would be a cesspool of garbage.

Boring_Boris · 2015-07-13T21:10:53+00:00

Wonder why voting system is overlooked in this thread. Don't want to see shitposts? Use top daily/weekly/monthly, according to your standards. Stumbled upon something you find unworthy of eyes of your fellow TRPers? Make sure you downvote.

FrameWalker · 2015-07-13T22:29:00+00:00

First post ought to be a field report

stellarMan24 · 2015-07-14T01:37:18+00:00

Sucks for those of us who have been reading TRP for a couple years now, but decided to make an account in case they just HAD to share something with the community.

Happened today. I really enjoyed writing the post titled [Rid Yourself of the "One Size Fits All" mentality]. It was a message I feel most men here need to hear. It appear's its gone now. I can still access it, but I don't see it on the front page.

Anyway, what's the duration of time an account needs to be alive for a submission to not be removed? Is it 30 days?

greatmikeshark · 2015-07-14T03:38:34+00:00

Who cares! If the red pill is about one thing, it is the idea of doing what you want to do and not worrying about what anyone has to think or say about it. If people want to post what you view as wasted internet space, then so be it.

FastCashToday · 2015-07-13T19:32:31+00:00

Thank you. I'm also tired of Jim-bob's FRs after his first (insert sexual triumph here).

renegade · 2015-07-14T02:02:22+00:00

You forgot:

Misogynist Rant

oldredder · 2015-07-14T06:13:38+00:00

quality speaker is to wait until you have something you are burning to say

even better: when I can distill a direly important concept to less than 10 lines and others are burning to hear it and it shows, rather than me burning to write it, then it's time for a post.

So far I just comment. No post. Few hear are ready to actually read how things really, really work. They think they want to but I can see they don't. The elders here who do know... don't need to be told.

2015-07-14T06:45:20+00:00

This might be true but the mod team has a tendency to just delete anything. I'm one of those guys that hasn't subscribed for about a year only to do so mere months ago. I write a post that causes an uproar of stories of people's fathers, truly emotion drenched comments. And yet, I get a warning, and a friendly 3 day ban, quite interesting with the classic "woah there young buck". I recieved a message from someone asking for my deleted post, a post written two days ago. I hadn't known it was deleted until that message. Why? Eh, who knows. For fucks sake mods, I'm not saying don't do your jobs but don't do it for the sake of doing it.

xaphody · 2015-07-14T00:35:54+00:00

Speak with purpose or fall to the folly of deaf ears

WhatWouldTuckerDo · 2015-07-14T13:51:11+00:00

No it is probably not the first democratic community most of these members have participated in. Get over yourself.

You are born into a family. Most likely not democratic.

You go to school. Not democratic.

Do you have a job? Not democratic.

Maybe you go to church or play on some team; not democratic.

Most communities are not democratic because it is already know democracy is not efficient and very complicated.

2015-07-14T15:18:42+00:00

Personally I'm growing to think the opposite. TRP seems to be headed away from being a discussion group and being more like a lecture circuit. Some people are beginning to "believe their own legend" as it were and it appears they are are trying to come at this with a "I'm an EC, you're not, sit there are shut up while I enlighten you" attitude, and frankly it's getting a little tiring. If I wanted to just read what the "pros" have to say, I would stick to reading the blogs like CH and Rational Male. But I don't want to just be talked at. I like hearing from everyone, n00bs and EC alike. Even the shitty posts offer an example of what not to do or say.

2015-07-13T23:29:51+00:00

The foundation of all proper and functional relationships of any kind in life is an equal exchange of value for value. When the exchange is unequal, the relationship, even one that last but a few seconds between reader and writer, is wrong and should be terminated.

Just curious, but those who are downvoting without offering a counterpoint, why?

throwaway_holla · 2015-07-14T02:42:01+00:00

we needed to invent TRP.

Who exactly is "we"? Please be specific.

SplashArtist · 2015-07-14T03:57:27+00:00

Oh how ironic this post is...

krustytheclown2 · 2015-07-13T23:23:05+00:00

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FLFTW16 · 2015-07-14T03:10:30+00:00

I'm new and can't post yet but I sure am itching to tell y'all just how fucking amazing I am with the ladies. I'm so ridiculously good looking, confident, successful and intelligent that everyone secretly hates me, but I can see right through them all. Guys get jealous when I walk in and their girlfriends get all flustered. Women hate me because I won't fuck them. I am a true natural alpha long before I found TRP. I don't even have game, never needed it. My music and good looks drops pussy at my feet. My biggest problem is that I'm so used to fucking 10s that I can't settle for less and there's just not enough of them super hotties... Dudes really shouldn't worry about me though because I'm fucking way above your league and you couldn't get the fine pussy I go for anyways... Now that I'm learning how women really work and have rid myself of searching for unicorns, I'm out for the slaughter. I no longer care about personality. Fuck, I no longer care about anything other than myself. No more Mr. nice guy looking for a supermodel who can sing, is intelligent, educated, honest, genuine, feminine and nurturing. Fuck that. All I care about now is young hot pussy! Look out world, I just might decide to lower my standards and fuck all the bitches. You guys are done... Somebodies gonna try to take me out, that's why I'm getting my conceal carry. Motherfuuuuckckckcers!!!!

How's that for useless non-substance bravado? I hope I stole some of your precious time that you only have a limited amount of and will never get back.

JavaMage · 2015-07-14T22:19:02+00:00

I'm sorry to burst your egotistical bubble but this is reddit. Reddit is a social platform where 1/2 of the community openly admit to posting to achieve 'karma'.

If you don't want people to post for upvotes you really need to go elsewhere..

Title	First post syndrome
Author	Whisper
Upvotes	352
Comments	104
Date	July 13, 2015 7:29 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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