Nah, its ok to quickly compliment random people if you do it tactfully and respectfully, without expecting any reciprocation or expanding follow up conversation.
I do this fairly frequently to random people I walk past, and they very often explicitly thank me for it, or fire back with a compliment of myself, or at least say something generally kind or positive in response.
Then we both just go about our day.
This only doesn’t go well with extremely paranoid people, or people who are so emotionally traumitized or insecure/low self esteem that they interperet a genuine compliment as an attack or demand.
the problem was in the compliment being poorly formed, and then basically trapping the girl/woman into a conversation she didn’t want to have, which is a demand.
The idea of trying to compliment a random passerby is not inherently bad, sumguy’s execution was just very poor.
Nah, its ok to quickly compliment random people if you do it tactfully and respectfully, without expecting any reciprocation or expanding follow up conversation.
I do this fairly frequently to random people I walk past, and they very often explicitly thank me for it, or fire back with a compliment of myself, or at least say something generally kind or positive in response.
Then we both just go about our day.
This only doesn’t go well with extremely paranoid people, or people who are so emotionally traumitized or insecure/low self esteem that they interperet a genuine compliment as an attack or demand.
the problem was in the compliment being poorly formed, and then basically trapping the girl/woman into a conversation she didn’t want to have, which is a demand.
The idea of trying to compliment a random passerby is not inherently bad, sumguy’s execution was just very poor.