is it possible to be too nice?

[escobert]

Yes.

[Shorty]

That is true. Nothing is more suspicious than someone informing you that they're nice.

This 100%. If someone tells you that they are nice or too nice, they use their niceness to try to get things from people. Truly nice people do not go around telling others that they are nice. They just are nice.

That said, calling someone else "too nice" or saying that someone is "nice" can interchangeably mean that they are just naive.

[Psychotic]

Nice guys finish last. *weeps into fedora*

Also being nice isn't the same as being naive or lacking in assertiveness.

[Crop]

No.

[Kalevala]

That is true. Nothing is more suspicious than someone informing you that they're nice.

100%. This should always be a red flag unless it's being stated facetiously.

[Shiny]

You can never be too nice, but you can however be too giving.

[fire_of_avalon]

I'm nice.

[Ayen]

I used to think I was 'too nice' while dealing with unruly people during my admin days, but in reality I was just doing my job.

However, if you were able to harness the power of niceness into pure energy and create a super weapon, then I believe it would be possible to be too nice, but is it still niceness if you use it as a weapon to hurt others? IT'S POWERED BY NICENESS!

Questions like that keep me up at night o.o

[Mr. Carnelian]

I used to think I was 'too nice' while dealing with unruly people during my admin days, but in reality I was just doing my job.

However, if you were able to harness the power of niceness into pure energy and create a super weapon, then I believe it would be possible to be too nice, but is it still niceness if you use it as a weapon to hurt others? IT'S POWERED BY NICENESS!

Questions like that keep me up at night o.o

Good to know that someone's thinking about the important stuff!

It's good to be nice to people. Kindness makes the world go round, after all. Generally speaking, you shouldn't worry about being too nice, because niceness is good. Unless of course you're planning to use that niceness to power some kind of weird, cartoon superweapon that sounds like it comes straight from The Powerpuff Girls...

[Bri]

Yes.

I agree with Bert.

[Vasher]

Yes, one can be "too nice". "Too nice" in the sense that said "niceness/niceties" impose upon personal ambitions/plans/goals/achievement in order to accommodate another, to the point of detriment. "Too nice" can be a compromise of valuable time, emotion, capital, etc. "Too nice" could be as simple as a "yes", when "no" would have properly communicated your position, but left the other party "wanting".


I have too many examples of "too nice", so I'll just leave it at that.

[Fynn]

A complete lack of assertiveness gas nothing to do with being nice, though, when you think about it.

[Aerith's Knight]

Nice guys finish last.

Jerks finish whenever they feel like it.

[Leigh]

Nice. A positive complimentation resting on a floating cloud of mediocracy. It's the go to adjective for something non-descript but not necessarily unpleasant.

Be kind, people. That's the true worth of a human. Kindness, not niceness. Baked beans and a jacket potato are 'nice'. Don't compare yourselves to British cuisine. You're all worth so much more than that!

[Galuf]

hope this aint too old to say but... i found out that being nice can hurt other people. it can make them remember stuff they wish not to remember, so that breaks my most basic greeting of asking how people are. this is a tough problem because now im at a loss of what i should do. should i ignore how they are? i dont think so. i dunno. maybe ill know when im less nervous.