Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by arunbahl on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:18PM (#24524298)

This — suspension of judgement long enough to engage in genuine introspection, followed by a return to the conversation with humility — is something we so rarely see, and each need to engage in more.

Kudos to you for leading by example.

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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by goldcd on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:39PM (#24524434)

I am so not a good example of anything.

But genuinely do appreciate your reply - makes that little voice in my head feel "less alone"

What was interesting/depressing was my "how about a creed" post was getting a few up-votes, then the moment I replied below saying maybe I was a "crap anti-rascist", my OP started to get down-votes.

Text hadn't changed, but by putting some context around it, it was read differently.

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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by zaroth on Friday September 18, 2020 @11:07PM (#24524602)

Very consistently I’ve found engaging with replies to your own comment will get the original (even high ranking comment) downvoted.

It could be just a reflexive thing to seeing a given username show up too often. I wouldn’t presume it was any deeper than that.

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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by goldcd on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:10AM (#24524963)

I think it's more than that.

In my OP I very deliberately stuck to abstracts that I'd hoped "nobody could disagree with".

And nobody seemed to - until I put more words beneath it.

You're right though - engaging with your own posts is perceived as negative. People read the platitude and hit 'like' - the more you put beneath it, the greater the opportunity for something to annoy somebody (and scroll up to try to kill the thread)

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