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People seem to have a huge need to defend their preferences and world views, as if something could be taken away from them, should they fail to defended it any
by mrweasel 2y ago
People seem to have a huge need to defend their preferences and world views, as if something could be taken away from them, should they fail to defended it any turn. If you instead comment that you prefer one thing, but can see the usefulness of another, moderate your own opinion and leave room for the alternatives, then your comment/post/video/tweet the your engagement drops to almost zero. That's no good in an engagement driven economy.
- lloydatkinson 2y agoIt’s strange because I actually followed this approach exactly. I wrote all about my preferences in the original article I posted, but half the HN commenters couldn’t be bothered to read maybe even a quarter of it and proceeded to be complete dicks in the replies in ways that wouldn’t even make sense had they read the rest of it.