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[Perfection]

What's the difference between being a jerk and acting like a jerk? Can you act like a jerk without actually being a jerk?

 

[Borachio]

Yes, I think so.

An actor, for example, could pretend to be a jerk.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Ooh, I know! Most people here are good, decent, polite people- as unjerk-like as you like- but they've had a bad day and/or have been riled up something rotten in a thread and, in a lapse of judgement, post something or do something they regret afterwards.

 

[Camikaze]

A non-jerk can act like a jerk, and someone who is normally a non-jerk can be a jerk within a limited context. However, I wouldn't read into moderator comments describing a poster as a 'jerk' or as 'acting like a jerk', as the former is only used as shorthand for the latter.

 

[JollyRoger]

If you are a jerk, you just need to post in jerk off mode.

 

[Takhisis]

So your kneejerk reaction is to jerk off?