Thank you for this. I have been trying to consciously put in effort into explicitly delineating my actual opinion and a statement of fact. I found that adding

Thank you for this. I have been trying to consciously put in effort into explicitly delineating my actual opinion and a statement of fact. I found that adding that tiny bit of flavor into it helps spark a conversation in better online communities rather than just getting derision or down-votes. Even if it involves a bit of self-deprecation. Sometimes you have to show that you're imperfect or else I found that people don't really assume the obvious, even though they would in real life. If I didn't add something like that then I found that an entire comment just comes off like I'm trying to communicate some sort of universal truth, only to me is it self-evident that it's an opinion. I'm trying to leave less of that to subtext, to reading between the lines as a lot of that tends to get lost online. And since in a lot of these cases we can only guess at the truth to the best of our knowledge since the facts will likely remain hidden from us.