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I've taken controversial/unpopular views on plenty of issues, including monetary policy and the financial crisis, as well as religion. Yet in my entire comment
by lotharbot 14y ago
I've taken controversial/unpopular views on plenty of issues, including monetary policy and the financial crisis, as well as religion. Yet in my entire comment history, I only have one post that's below 0 (I deserved it).
Your posts get downvoted more than mine because of a difference in the way the two of us behave. I tried to explain this to you over a year ago, and someone else quoted it in this very thread: you include an "unreasonable amount of emotionally charged language in your post[s]." You seem to have trouble staying away from name-calling and cheap shots.
I propose an experiment: for the next month or so, before you hit the "reply" button, carefully read over your post and remove anything that could be considered name-calling (that is, any label applied to a person that they wouldn't voluntarily apply to themselves -- such as "haters", or associations with "creationism".) Remove explicit comments about others lacking intellect or having inappropriate motivation. Compare the number of downvotes you get, after removing these non-insightful statements, to the number of downvotes you get now.