The most most childish behavior on this forum is "political typing."
These typings are disingenuous, made out of spite, and the16types equivalent of the shit kids say during elementary school recesses.
On this forum, political typings occur when one forum member--acting out of anger, annoyance, or other impure motive--"types" another person erroneously in attempt to make said person look bad, stupid, etc... (It is never done to make another person look good, smart, etc.)
Here's an example of one that very recently occurred (re: me--I didn't have time to go looking for other examples...)
http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...tml#post532748
In this case, as in most cases, the poster simply wants to create a controversy... The poster is probably bored, insecure, and angry... And unfortunately, nothing good comes out of political typing threads, (usually just a bunch of insults.)
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One can tell the difference between a "political" typing and a genuine typing suggestion by the tone of the post, evidence offered, (questions about whomever is being typed?,) and also by the poster's history of political typings/history of interaction with whomever is being typed. (For example, some ppl who have been offended by Niffweed tend to erroneously type him INTj... In actuality, he's one of the most clear examples of INTp on this planet... Ppl type him this way often to attempt to put him down... However, the joke is on them, not Niffweed.)
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Another personal example... immediately after I wrote a criticism of Steve's interpretation of Socionics/Socionix, he changed how he typed me--from INFp to ENFp... He did this for reasons known only to him, although I think most ppl here can put 2+2 together.
This does not happen only to me--ppl push "political typings" all the time on this forum... These typings cause many ppl here to 'spin their wheels' as re: learning Socionics, (especially more susceptible ppl. Before I learned SOcionics, I was one of these.)
This post is a call to end political typings... ONly by being honest with ourselves--and to others, about our own personalities and others', will we progress in learning Socionics. Until then, we'll just spin our wheels