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<blockquote data-quote="The Scythian" data-source="post: 9245436" data-attributes="member: 6875986"><p>In my last post, I was going to say that, a lot of the time, you don't seem to be talking to the person you're responding to so much as other people who might read your post but haven't read the thread or been reading closely. When you say, for example, that another poster seems too hot under the collar, you're hoping that other readers might just accept what you're saying, seeing you as reasonable and the other person as unreasonable. I refrained from that, because I wasn't sure it was fair, but here we are.</p><p></p><p>Which potential readers of the post are you talking about? Who is demonizing the opposition? What is the "primal reaction" that you're talking about? Who is saying that anybody who is involved in this discussion (or is the subject of this discussion) is "truly evil"? Who is saying that "'those who disagreed with me are the devil incarnate'"? (You even put that last one in quotes!)</p><p></p><p>If I wanted to make a point clear to potential readers, I would direct my post to those readers. But, of course, you're writing this for the benefit of people not directly involved in the discussion, using loaded language ("demonising", "primal reaction", "truly evil", "the devil incarnate", "echo chamber") in an attempt to insinuate that the people who disagree with you are unreasonable, overcome by their emotions, engaged in groupthink, mindlessly tribal, or otherwise bad. Maybe that'll work, maybe it won't. We'll see.</p><p></p><p>I do want to break this out of the post and address it separately, though:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Maybe people are liking your opponents' posts not because this is some kind of <em><strong>Lord of the Flies</strong></em> tribal hellscape and they're clapping like mindless seals. Maybe it's because they simply disagree with you.</p><p></p><p>Also, if you're bothered that you're getting fewer likes than other people in the thread, maybe pay less attention to them? I'm appreciative when I receive likes, and I feel good when I log in and see notifications, but I don't go around comparing the number I get to the number other people are getting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Scythian, post: 9245436, member: 6875986"] In my last post, I was going to say that, a lot of the time, you don't seem to be talking to the person you're responding to so much as other people who might read your post but haven't read the thread or been reading closely. When you say, for example, that another poster seems too hot under the collar, you're hoping that other readers might just accept what you're saying, seeing you as reasonable and the other person as unreasonable. I refrained from that, because I wasn't sure it was fair, but here we are. Which potential readers of the post are you talking about? Who is demonizing the opposition? What is the "primal reaction" that you're talking about? Who is saying that anybody who is involved in this discussion (or is the subject of this discussion) is "truly evil"? Who is saying that "'those who disagreed with me are the devil incarnate'"? (You even put that last one in quotes!) If I wanted to make a point clear to potential readers, I would direct my post to those readers. But, of course, you're writing this for the benefit of people not directly involved in the discussion, using loaded language ("demonising", "primal reaction", "truly evil", "the devil incarnate", "echo chamber") in an attempt to insinuate that the people who disagree with you are unreasonable, overcome by their emotions, engaged in groupthink, mindlessly tribal, or otherwise bad. Maybe that'll work, maybe it won't. We'll see. I do want to break this out of the post and address it separately, though: Maybe people are liking your opponents' posts not because this is some kind of [I][B]Lord of the Flies[/B][/I] tribal hellscape and they're clapping like mindless seals. Maybe it's because they simply disagree with you. Also, if you're bothered that you're getting fewer likes than other people in the thread, maybe pay less attention to them? I'm appreciative when I receive likes, and I feel good when I log in and see notifications, but I don't go around comparing the number I get to the number other people are getting. [/QUOTE]
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