Out of Pod Experience

I feel this term is mislabeled. It's usually nt people that "sperg".

you hoped for splooging?


that's when it's uninteresting and people resent it. a lot of words + thoughts that don't go anywhere = verbose.

the benefit of true sperg are the unconventional mental connections. people appreciate that.

when people say, "well duh, i could have told you that." it is a failure.

bad spergling

In legal writing, there's something similar that's called "taking the reader down the bunny trail." Here's how it works:

1) You present some conclusion of yours as if it were a plain fact. In the reader's mind, your conclusion might be debatable. There might be another way of looking at the situation, and arriving at a different conclusion. But before he can formulate that little doubt into something definite, you...

2) Leap directly into a dramatic next sentence that grabs the readers attention and makes her temporarily put that little doubt on hold.

3) Now, present a fairly complex sentence with lots of clauses and commas. It leads to yet another conclusion of yours-- and it's based on the first conclusion being a fact.

4) Repeat steps 2) and 3), the dramatic distracting statement, followed by the complicated logic statement.

5) Keep doing it that way until you've lead the reader down the bunny trail to exactly where you want him to be. Wrap up with an ending that simplifies everything you said into a nice, tidy, "all-questions-have-addressed and resolved" conclusion. And then say "Thank you for your attention, now your next step is to go ahead and do what I requested."

Basically, it's like a complicated flow chart, but anywhere there should have been a decision box, you erased the decision you didn't want. Surprisingly, the bunny trail technique almost always works. The reader may have a vague sense that they missed something along the way. But he probably didn't mentally bookmark that crucial point where the logic started heading down one path, without addressing the possible alternative path.

Evil? Yes. But not illegal or unethical, under the U.S. adversarial legal system, at least. You didn't misrepresent any facts or misstate any law-- you just didn't let the reader consider anything you didn't want him to consider.

Anyway, on the topic of essay-writing, here's a classic by a U.S. Army enlisted guy. He had to write it for Re-enforcement by Indorsement (RBI) discipline.

I had to look up sperging in urban dictionary. was ok with the label.

Yes... Because it is a derogatory term for behavior associated with Asperger's syndrome.

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confirming i'm a spergling

I will ling rush u