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My life improved when I learned to detect these situations and walk away. A good sign that I need to is if I am upset and a particular comment keeps popping ba

My life improved when I learned to detect these situations and walk away. A good sign that I need to is if I am upset and a particular comment keeps popping back into my mind. The best way I've found to walk away is delete all my comments and close all the tabs. If the thread is gone, I can't respond to it. If the tabs are gone, I won't have any reminders that the discussion existed. Possibly I'll be perceived as losing the argument, but my pride is not more important than my mental well-being.

AdamJacobMuller 4y ago
> delete all my comments The thing which I've found helps me with this is to just delete my account. Besides some subreddit-specific accounts, I generally delete my one main account and start a new one every few months, usually after some nasty interaction with someone on reddit, especially when people start to follow me around. I've had multiple occasions where people start commenting about a disagreement on an unrelated thread/comment I make, even in a completely unrelated subreddit sometimes! It's such a weird place, if it wasn't for some niche subs I enjoy participating in which I don't think have any parallels elsewhere, I would really prefer to just stop using it entirely.
- nebula8804 4y ago
  Man you must be so good and interesting enough that you live rent free in peoples head. I can only dream of being that important to someone's life stranger or otherwise. As it stands, the best I could muster up is people tend to block me over time(I can't prove it but I can see patterns in reduced responses & upvote/downvote counts). Both on Reddit and in real life.
  - AdamJacobMuller 4y ago
    I really don't know why and I don't really appreciate the attention to be honest. The most recent one was some comments about The Last of Us TV show.
    - nebula8804 4y ago
      Some people just have the knack and others like me don't and are forgotten to the sands of time.

AdamJacobMuller 4y ago

> delete all my comments The thing which I've found helps me with this is to just delete my account. Besides some subreddit-specific accounts, I generally delete my one main account and start a new one every few months, usually after some nasty interaction with someone on reddit, especially when people start to follow me around. I've had multiple occasions where people start commenting about a disagreement on an unrelated thread/comment I make, even in a completely unrelated subreddit sometimes! It's such a weird place, if it wasn't for some niche subs I enjoy participating in which I don't think have any parallels elsewhere, I would really prefer to just stop using it entirely.

nebula8804 4y ago
Man you must be so good and interesting enough that you live rent free in peoples head. I can only dream of being that important to someone's life stranger or otherwise. As it stands, the best I could muster up is people tend to block me over time(I can't prove it but I can see patterns in reduced responses & upvote/downvote counts). Both on Reddit and in real life.
- AdamJacobMuller 4y ago
  I really don't know why and I don't really appreciate the attention to be honest. The most recent one was some comments about The Last of Us TV show.
  - nebula8804 4y ago
    Some people just have the knack and others like me don't and are forgotten to the sands of time.