What Are Virtue Signallers?

[Atheist]

And is there such a thing as Evil Signallers?

[Old_Geezer]

It's tech messing up my perfect typing again. It tries it on about every two words in three. Some slip though despite best efforts.

[Atheist]

Togo; Better if you don't try to reduce real people to labels. Why not treat people as people and not stereotypes. Respond to those who post here, not to what you imagine they are.

[Togo]

//Better if you don't try to reduce real people to labels.//

I didn't "reduce" any imaginary person to a stereotype ........You did , with the original question.......You snowflake. :))

[andy-hughes]

Atheist - I am not a fan of acronyms - I worked for forty-three years for a bureaucracy so I have had my fill for a lifetime - but they are a fact of life, especially on the internet.

Another fact of life on the internet is learning that how anyone presents themselves is only ever going to be a snapshot of the individual - and those snapshots are inevitably open to misinterpretation.

If you spend a lot of time on sites like this - and I do - then accepting that people will get the wrong idea about you, and not be remotely shy about letting you know (!) is simply a fact of life, and most people learn to live with it.

Personally, I roll with most misconceptions about me - I will challenge anything patently untrue, and I will respond to personal attacks, but aside from that, I try not to let such things bother me too much.

[barry1010]

Plenty of evil signallers about. Read the comments in the Daily Mail for a starter lesson

[Peter Pedant]

// And is there such a thing as Evil Signallers?//

and is the opposite of interested - disinterested or uninterested?
and does dispassionate mean lack of passion ....
er no ....

the typical virtue signaller is the one who dobbed in Cummings for his sight test journey. - it was not somehting the dobber would have done

or naughty Harry and Meghan deliverying food bags and making sure there were cameras near to record it

// people who call other people "Lefties" or "TROB" or "VS's". What signals are they sending?// they are not so much virtue signallers as gormless tassers

[Peter Pedant]

// Respond to those who post here, not to what you imagine they are.//

but their posts are all that we have - so we will never know what they are - but only the bits they show us

[shoota]

Show us yer bits Peter...

[Peter Pedant]

I will if you give me 6d shoota
and you will have to show me your - -- -
it isnt a pea-shooter now is it?

[shoota]

At the risk of signalling my virtues; it's at least a shillings worth...