Social desirability bias

[LUniqueDan]

Ghost, you sociopath! :'(

Nah, I was more making an image. D'you remember when that noob told NighFable how cute he find her? Like in the middle of nowhere.
(I dug gen-gen,  but was unable to find the post I have in mind)

It was not a rule per se, but when he realised that he just hit the whole Social desirability thingy he flied away and never post again.

[Lionmonkey]

@Lionmonkey : I'll give more examples.

1) Lack of social feedbacks.

Even if the Social desirability bias apply here :
- You gain almost nothing being desirable here.
- You loose almost nothing not being.

By opposition of
- Telling something non-desirable in the 1st minutes of a 4 hours long family diner.
- Telling something non-desirable at work.
- Telling something non-desirable in a potentialy dangerous situation.
- Telling something non-desirable when it's also illegal to do so.

While you may be right, I have always viewed the Internet like this: if you put some information in there, there's a pretty fair chance, everyone in the world will soon find it, inculding everyone you know. While this may not be the reality, it is in my mind, so it does emulate for me the situations you've mentioned.

Actually, I'd like to know, why is some information "non-desirable" in the first place. Because it makes many people lie about it and hide the truth, making them feel a disgust and hate to themselves, which creates even more psychological disorders.
So why is this or that disgusting or evil? We cannot really be sure that anything is. Then why are we binding these constraints on ourselves, making our lives hard and minds crippled?

2) Taboos are relative to the group /sub-groupe you're in.

- I don't know how you can really estrapolate this experiment to what you called "The system"

- Forums are made for discussions. It's not like starting a radical debate about a taboo subject with a stranger at the train station.

- All groups have there own set of rules who sometimes differ radically of the 'System' arround them.

so:

3) Any good questions will necessary touch taboo / social rules of AGS forums.
If you really want to test your own ability to escape the Social desirability bias answering nasty questions then the list of topics you  submitted was pretty sterile here.

Who mind about your body fluids? Try instead :

Praising the use of Lensflare.
Explaining why l33tspeak are a great way of expression.
Bitching on Chris Jones.
Maintaining that RON should die.
Posting poems about DragonRose, The Ivy, MashPotato, Kinoko, Sylvr or Pilf.


Those subjects are directly linked to the AGS Forums group 'taboos', rules and way of behavior. 

Now, don't be annoying and post about those! 
Because of 1) that will prove nothing. And because of 2) that will be effectively nasty and we like you.

Better?

I repeat myself, but I must, so I am in the first place trying to find out why this or that topic is presumed forbidden and causes the social desirability bias, making the people hide their own true self.
Now, while I accept your comand not to express this true self of mine in relation to the topics, you called out, I'd still like to learn more about why do they have such status.
Please go on.

[Eggie]

This is boring crap!
Go write essays about it!
Leave us aloooooooooooooooooooone!!

How d'ya like my social desirability nooooow!!

[ThreeOhFour]

This is boring crap!
Go write essays about it!
Leave us aloooooooooooooooooooone!!

How d'ya like my social desirability nooooow!!

Holy moo cows, somebody wrote a post in here that makes 100% perfect sense to me!

(apart from Ghost's poem, of course)

Good job Eggie!

[Lionmonkey]

This is boring crap!
Go write essays about it!
Leave us aloooooooooooooooooooone!!

How d'ya like my social desirability nooooow!!

See? Doesn't it feel great to stop hiding your true opinion and express what you really think?