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This — suspension of judgement long enough to engage in genuine introspection, followed by a return to the conversation with humility — is something we so rarel
by arunbahl 6y ago
This — suspension of judgement long enough to engage in genuine introspection, followed by a return to the conversation with humility — is something we so rarely see, and each need to engage in more.
Kudos to you for leading by example.
- goldcd 6y agoI am so not a good example of anything. But genuinely do appreciate your reply - makes that little voice in my head feel "less alone" What was interesting/depressing was my "how about a creed" post was getting a few up-votes, then the moment I replied below saying maybe I was a "crap anti-rascist", my OP started to get down-votes. Text hadn't changed, but by putting some context around it, it was read differently.
- zaroth 6y agoVery consistently I’ve found engaging with replies to your own comment will get the original (even high ranking comment) downvoted. It could be just a reflexive thing to seeing a given username show up too often. I wouldn’t presume it was any deeper than that.
- goldcd 6y agoI think it's more than that. In my OP I very deliberately stuck to abstracts that I'd hoped "nobody could disagree with". And nobody seemed to - until I put more words beneath it. You're right though - engaging with your own posts is perceived as negative. People read the platitude and hit 'like' - the more you put beneath it, the greater the opportunity for something to annoy somebody (and scroll up to try to kill the thread)