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LMAO, goated article pull.

Thanks for sharing your end as well! I never really studied the idea of anonymity and how it effects the brain but that makes a lot of sense! When you think your completely free from punishment we would resort to Human Nature, rather than nurture.

I fear so.

Lol, no I just tried to label everything to make it an easier read. https://www.zerogpt.com/

Introduction: (1)The VHL Forums have been around for over 10 years at this point in time and we have seen people get over 10 thousand reactions from their peers in the VHL. This can be extremely exciting for those people, as it shows how others interact with their posts in a positive manner. However many issues arise from a system built on reactions, and it's important to fully understand these implications. So today, I will first explain to you the concept of technology-mediated dangerous behaviors, then I will explain the psychological effects of receiving insufficient positive feedback online, and explain ways to mediate this risk. Technology-Mediated Dangerous Behaviors (TMDB): The Causes of Technology-Mediated Dangerous Behaviors: (2)To first understand the Idea of TMDBs you first have to understand what causes them. According to Hamed Qahri, a researcher at Colorado State University, we go through a phenomenon known as homeostatic violations. This is where the socially driven creatures that we humans are, receive a negative reaction. This can trigger a stress induced reaction (SIR) and result in rash behaviors. This is one of the primary triggers for a TMDB, and on standard social media apps, can result in life threatening behavior, which has led to multiple deaths around the world, through texting while driving, or participating in dangerous activities to get a photo that will receive more interactions. (3)There is another major driving factor known as Social Comparison. People often carefully craft the image of themselves that they put online, whether we know we do it, or it is a subconscious action. This image we create drives others to compare themselves to the other users they see online. We as humans are theorized to experience a psychological trait known as psychological egoism, this is a theorized phenomenon that is supported by a study conducted by Joshua May at the University of Alabama. Psychological egoism states that all humans are influenced by selfish desires, whether these selfish desires lead to selfless acts makes for a different argument, however all humans have a view on the way they think the world sees them. If humans feel that others are doing better than them, it drives TMDBs and leads to the behaviors stated in Paragraph 2. The Correlation of Technology-Mediated Dangerous Behaviors on the VHL: (4)The VHL forum is not like a typical Social Media platform, rather than prioritizing fast stimuli material, entering the brain after short periods of time, to keep a user engaged. It prioritizes a slower reactionary based engagement strategy. This means that the users on the VHL Forum are trained to receive, rather than short term rushes of dopamine from seeing the latest trends, to lengthen their attention span through longer articles, where you read about various topics, usually relating to hockey. These interactions are then displayed on a user profile, filling in the two primary triggers of a TMDB, the reactions on any post that a user creates will lead to a homeostatic violation, and viewing your own reaction count compared to others triggers Social Comparison. (5)In an Unmatured mind, these factors can result in a stressed induced reaction, resulting in a TMDB. Due to the slower nature of the forums, the behaviors exhibited might not show short term offline dangers, like texting and driving would, but it can result in long term effects on a person's life. This is known as Cognitive Dissonance, this may be something as simple as sharing their real name with someone, or something as major as revealing personal information in an attempt to gather more interactions from their peers on the form. The Dangers of These Behaviors: (6)While if a person shares something small, such as a name or personal detail of their life, if they get the reaction that they seek, they will continue participating in this action, eventually they will see less of a reaction when they participate in this behavior, and decide to build on their previous behavior, by providing more personal information about themselves. This is known as the Slippery Slope or in extreme cases Intermittent Explosive Disorder. Which is where a person becomes so reliant on these reactions that it becomes violent episodes rather than short term stressed induced reactions. The Effects of Receiving Insufficient Positive Feedback: (RIPF) The Actions That Register as Insuffecient Positive Feedback: (7)Online, we like to build projects, aimed at creating feedback for ourselves to trigger the dopamine response most humans have experienced. An amazing example of an online project would be this paper, based around the very topic. When we create these projects, we often have an idea of being better than the rest, which loops back into the topic of Social Comparison as explained in paragraph 3. Once we feel we have generated content better than those that we choose to compare it too. We create an idea in our head of the feedback we are looking to receive, and then fully expect to receive this feedback. We go online, post our project, whether it be through video, text, or application, and we await to see our feedback, (8)Once this project is posted, we gain a short dopamine rush through a psychological effect known as anticipated response, where the neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and reward triggers because we feel we have already earned this reaction. This short term rush solidifies in our brain that we deserve these reactions, and causes us to further expect a positive reaction, sometimes even uplifting our expectations to unreasonable and unrealistic heights. The Insufficient Feedback Provided By Our Audience: (9)We as humans often understand that it will take time to build reaction to our expectation, so we often view this feedback through 2 stages, the Immediate Positive and/or Negative Feedback (IPF/INF) and the Long Term Positive to Negative Feedback (LTPNF). Our initial reaction is quick, usually within a couple hours of posting the project, we look at the Positive feedback and Negative feedback separately and occasionally only look for positive feedback. We will see a quick initial rush of support and be excited that our reaction is living up to our expectations, however these reactions will often start to die down after a couple of hours. (10)After these reactions start to slow, we start to experience a reaction similar to that explained in Paragraph 2, we experience Stress Induced Reactions and feel as if we failed, in our creation of the project. While often that is not true, the amygdala often triggers a sad response anyway. This can cause feelings of failure, low self worth, and ultimately depression. The Effects of Receiving Insufficient Positive Feedback: (11)Humans self worth is often a result of a series of factors, the most important being that of Self Comparison (Paragraph 3) and Psychological Egoism (Paragraph 3-4). These two factors are greatly affected through receiving insufficient feedback. We often create expectations through comparison, and when these expectations are not met we often see that as a showing that our work did not size up to that of others, but that we as people can not meet the expectations that others seem to receive so easily. (12)This lowering of our self worth leads to saddening effects, and if the cycle repeats over extended periods of time, we eventually develop social media fatigue, but because of the dopamine rush that we experience from it, we struggle to detach ourselves from these website that are ultimately the root of the issue. This continued depressive state can lead to much more serious effects on our mental health, which continues to degrade over time if we don’t seek professional help. All because of 1 simple button. The Overly Complicated Solution: Solution #1: Remove the like Button: (13)It seems like a simple fix, all we have to do is remove the like button, and this domino effect of SIRs, TMDBs, RIPFs and SMFs can all be avoided. Right? It's sadly not that simple. As the author of my favorite book has stated time and time again, “Nature Enjoys it's balance, you can’t remove bad without removing good.” As much pain as the like button provides, it's also a rewarding factor for doing a good job. The like button influences people to continue creating content, as well as to put effort into their content. Removing the like button ultimately changes the forum from an active and thriving space, to a simple, likely inactive place, where there is no reward or incentive to continue being active. (14)Sadly, this is why like buttons have been provided on almost every social media platform, and those who don’t are often not active or predominant in today's social climate. Ever heard of Maven? It's a perfect example of this sad flaw with the human brain. A social media with no follows, no likes, and as of this moment, practically no users. Solution #2: Educate Rather Than Retaliate: (15)As established, we can’t rely on a system without a reward for posting, so instead we have to educate ourselves on the effects of these issues. If we fully understand the damages that this has on our brains, we can better react to situations, and better help others who don’t fully understand the effects of a system like this. We can’t entirely educate or help everyone, so this solution has a downside, and a very big one, but as stated in Paragraph 13, nature likes its balance. If we want to continue with a forum being active, we have to have likes, but we need to understand how these likes affect us. So ultimately we can continue to safely interact on social media. (16) More importantly, we can also strive to provide support for those who provide their projects on the forum. I am guilty of almost never reacting or commenting on others posts, and through my research on this topic, I have realized that this is an issue in itself. Most of the time, one person's issue can be amplified by that of other people. We need to make it a habit to support each other, in our projects, and in our struggles through issues like this. The VHL has a very tight knit community, and we are already so supportive of each other, but we can reach even further, to support everyone. Read Further Into The Issue: This paper is the collage of many different researchers' work, put together by someone who is dangerously under qualified to be talking about the issue. There are very likely mistakes throughout the paper so I can’t encourage you enough to go read about the issue through the professionals. Everything I have said here has been closely fact checked through at least 2 papers, so any issues you find are that of my fault alone, and not a research failure on any of the papers below. I truly hope I built your knowledge on this correctly and if you remain confused on any of the topics above, do not worry, it took me a while to get it myself. The people below do an incredible job of explaining everything. Further, this project is also apart of a paper I am writing for an actual project in my educational career, if you are knowledgeable about the topic and spot any inconsistencies, I ask that you please point it out to me, as most of the information I have laid down in this paper, is also going to be submitted as a paper about the effects of social media on our psychological health for a grade. Please take everything written here into account, as this is a real issue affecting one inside and outside of the VHL, and providing a like on a smaller youtube video, or some words of encouragement for someone, can make them feel like their countless hours of work has affected one person. All it takes is changing 10 people, and you have changed the world. You are amazing and have a great day! *The words used to label word count have been excluded from the counts themselves (2003 Words Without Sources) (2098 Words With Sources) https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/getting-fewer-likes-on-social-media-can-make-teens-anxious-and-depressed-453482/ https://iep.utm.edu/psychological-egoism/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-intermittent-explosive-disorder https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/11/strain-media-overload#:~:text=The term “doomscrolling” emerged during,negative affect%2C” he said. https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialSciences/ppecorino/ETHICS_TEXT/Chapter_5_Teleological_Theories_Egoism/Psychological_Egoism.htm#:~:text=Psychological egoism suggests that all,be motivated by self interest. https://biz.source.colostate.edu/research-reveals-the-link-between-social-media-likes-and-dangerous-user-behavior/#:~:text=The research explains that there,users whose expectations are met.

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1. Another Moscow legend, Jarmo Ruutu, is retiring at the end of this season. What mark do you feel he has left on the franchise? He has provided Moscow with consistent and incredible offensive playmaking. Let's get him a continental his final year. 2. How would you expect fans to react to the final regular season game for Ruutu and Obuz? I fully expect a loud... and very messy... standing ovation for the two legends. 3. Should we dodge (or should we have dodged) the victory Cup? If im being completely honest. I have no idea at this point in time and believe the GM will make the right call. 4. Would your player argue with fans on social media? No, my player doesn't understand how to use social media. 5. Which team do you think would have the most annoying fans to argue with? Moscow, because the fans are so passionate that they wont back down!!! 6. How would you try to assert yourself with opponents on the ice in our first playoff game? As a goalie, I would leave that to the much more aggressive forwards, so long as I leave them with a shutout, I've left my mark.

With a name like shadow, I had to do a darker background. But you always gotta include the team colors! I tried something new with this one! I'm not mad at the end result but I'm confident I can do better when I attempt it next! Hope you enjoy @Shadow

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Still playing around with player shirts and blending the logo on it! I think this one came out pretty decently, however! It sure has been a journey, no easy task! @NineIQ v2

Saskatoon Wild Press Conference: Answer 3 questions for 1 TPE, or 6 questions for 2 TPE! Q1: With the new influx of players, how will this change the league and the team's standings? Q2: How are you hoping your player performs these next few days? Q3: The Stanley Cup is fast approaching! Who do you think is winning this year? Q4: Does your player believe that a hotdog is a sandwich? Q5: Does your player have any game superstitions? Q6: Why did you choose your player name? Is there a story behind it?

Saskatoon Wild Press Conference: Answer 3 questions for 1 TPE, or 6 questions for 2 TPE! Q1: Does your player hold any jobs outside of hockey? Q2: Do you have any questions for Myself or Dadam? Q3: If you could, which NHL team would you play on? Q4: Does your player consider cereal a soup. Q5: Does your player have any superstitions. Q6: Whats your player's favorite place to eat food?

Saskatoon Wild Press Conference: Answer 3 questions for 1 TPE, or 6 questions for 2 TPE! Q1: How has your player been performing? Is it up to expectations? Q2: What are you expecting to improve over the next 3-4 weeks? Q3: What, if any, VHL team are you hoping to get selected for? Q4: Does your player put pineapple on their pizza? Q5: What is your player's favorite hobby? Q6: Where do you think Saskatoon will finish this season?

1. I expect this to be a big year for OCO! he has just started his journey into the VHL and it will be a very humbling experience without a doubt. He will learn a whole lot and I expect him to progress as a goalie in general. 2. I would expect around a 115, Moscow has a strong lineup and I expect quite a few easy wins this season. 3. OCO tends to listen to Pod Save America while on his travels. 4. I think either Paris or Raleigh would be solid choices. Both have strong fan turnout at current sporting events and would be in good enough spots to draw a crowd outside it's usual area. 5. I would take the puck, act like it went in the net, then show them the puck, and laugh at them. Then I'd beat them up. (But I'd beat them up, wholesomely) 6. The coffin dance meme was absurd, it was literally just people walking, with some music behind it.

Saskatoon Wild Press Conference: Answer 3 questions for 1 TPE, or 6 questions for 2 TPE! Q1: Now that the VHLM Draft has been completed, what are you expecting in the league? Q2: What is your player's personal goal for the season? Q3: What was your reasoning behind your players country of origin? Q4: Does your player participate in any Pre/Post-Game Rituals or superstitions? Q5: Why does your player love the sport? Q6: Does your player believe cereal is a soup?