The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room

Re:The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room by aviv on Saturday June 16, 2018 @07:02PM (#17329963)

That has not been my experience. I have often written lengthy comments that simply explained my view on certain topics, and within a few minutes those got flagged which rendered them invisible to others. This place is like Reddit in that regard, when it comes to silencing non mainstream opposing views. I've been here 10 years now, and it's gotten progressively worse in that aspect.

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Re:The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room by shawn on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:28PM (#17330271)

I read through your comment history to try to find some examples.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928482

There’s a recurring pattern: people ask you to back up what you say, and then you respond with “I won’t do that.”

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Re:The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room by aviv on Saturday June 16, 2018 @09:51PM (#17330520)

And my comment there stands. It's gotten worse since then, instead of downvotes I simply get flagged and my content disappears. No point.

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Re:The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room by yorwba on Sunday June 17, 2018 @01:15AM (#17330987)

There's also no point in posting that you wont post because of getting downvoted and flagged, because that post will also get downvoted and flagged.

If you make a controversial claim backed up by sources, you will get negative reactions from people who doubt the validity of those sources. If you make a controversial claim and refuse to provide sources because people would doubt their validity, you'll get negative reactions even from someone who might have agreed with you, because that's just rude.

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Re:The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room by dmichulke on Sunday June 17, 2018 @01:53AM (#17331072)

Save your important points in a blog post or at least a local text file and c+p them where appropriate. I'd be interested in understanding your point if view but as it stands I have nothing to work with.

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Re:The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room by dwaltrip on Saturday June 16, 2018 @09:21PM (#17330421)

The contrarian is the one responsible for successfully communicating any legitimate insight they have to the mainstream, however difficult that may be.

One potential strategy might be to slowly ease your way towards your controversial conclusions, building up your argument carefully along the way, in a way that will make sense to your audience.

And yet you still may get downvotes. Such is life.

Lastly, it's very valuable to always be open to the idea that you are the one who is actually mistaken in some critical way.

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