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I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me

poiler: you probably won't! There is a concept called Crocker's Rules, and if you have never heard of it, the short version is this: you give people around you explicit permission to be maximally direct with you, to skip social cushioning. The person invoking Crocker's Rules is saying, in effect, "your feelings about how I might receive this are your problem to manage, not mine, just give me the information." So a person receiving a message bears responsibility for their own emotional reaction to its content.

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