> until I edited it to state that I wasn't supporting Trump
It's funny you mentioned this because my original comment was something along the lines of:
"""
2016-2020: "I hate Trump, but..."
2021: "I got the vaccine, but..."
"""
But I erased that and wrote my comment above because I thought it had a lower chance of being downvoted.
Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine
by criticaltinker on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:57PM
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Yes this dynamic is caused by people reflexively downvoting and flagging posts which suggest facts or ideas that do not match their own opinion and cause them cognitive dissonance. Prefacing comments with vaccination status is how people have started mitigating those ad hominem fueled reactions.
Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine
by chipotle_coyote on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:09PM
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Maybe in a perfect world we wouldn't have to occasionally preface comments with "I don't actually believe the Illuminati are using mind control lasers on us, but...", but if we live in a world where people who actually believe that tend to say things that sound like what we're about to say, is it really an unreasonable disclaimer?
This is not limited to the medical field, I was once downvoted on an HN comment until I edited it to state that I wasn't supporting Trump, because people were reading it that way.