Do you folks even know what gossip is? Small talk !== Gossip. God, it's obnoxious reading like 98% of you. You think "stuff I'm not interested in" is gossip,

Do you folks even know what gossip is? Small talk !== Gossip. God, it's obnoxious reading like 98% of you. You think "stuff I'm not interested in" is gossip, which is even worse than the assumption "Small talk === Gossip". Look, adding a qualification or narrative component (predicates not strictly quantifiable over the domain) is a mark of conversation. BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP. BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP. BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP. BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP. BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP. AGAIN: BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP. VAGUENESS is not gossip. It's SYSTEMATIC oppression. A laundry list of "why this, why this" at the end of a post COMPLETELY FAILS to grok what SYSTEMATIC/STRUCTURAL oppression MEANS. Learn how to more categories of conversation. LEARN what speech genres are. Stop reducing everything to "gossip/actionable". Stop the elimination of human spontaneity. Stop building the ideal language that the ideal person must speak. Stop. STOP.