• Zman51 [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    You know what I don't miss from r*ddit? People who really want to debate you and get increasingly hostile regardless of how you reply.

    • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      during the election the liberal brigates in dankleft got really mad when you call biden a segregationist and the US a fascist state

    • adfsadfsadfsadf [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      At r/politics I got into a ridiculous argument over the phrase "banality of evil". Of all the things to argue about that's quite something. I used it in a sarcastic way and the redditor got really pissed off my "wrong" usage. We lobbed feces at each other and then I decided to get in one last zinger and disable comments.

      I came back to Reddit an hour later. He had gone crazy during that time because in anger he must have been sitting at his keyboard (or holding his phone) ready to reply to me. And there was nothing to reply to.

      He spammed my tiny sub with not one but two lengthy screeds explaining in detail how I was a bad person. I only scanned the posts - they each must have been 300+ words long. I was sorely tempted to go back to the r/politics thread - reply and disable comments for that too.

      Instead, I deleted the posts, banned him from my sub, and went on with my day.

      • Zman51 [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        The thing that's driving me crazy is that despite them being immediately hostile, I thought the argument was really dumb and inconsequential so I tried to find some minor point of agreement to diffuse the situation. This person refused, kept finding things to nitpick about, constantly calling me a moron that can't read, etc. and tried to contest the fact that I was agreeing with them. Eventually they found a way to call me a bigot because I live in a city where an infamous bigot also lives. What the fuck do you even say to that shit?

        • adfsadfsadfsadf [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          tried to contest the fact that I was agreeing with them

          That was like my argument too. We were two guys on the net who had a "somebody is wrong on the net" moment.

          What the fuck do you even say to that shit?

          I've been trying to simply give the other guy the last word. Many times - people actually get angry at you and the best thing to do is simply stop the convo. That redditor spammed my sub and it really pissed me off but in the end I had to let it go.

          I've only been partially successful at breaking my habit of replying and then disabling comments. It's far better to just forget all about it.

          • Zman51 [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            For some reason I have this compulsive need to reply to everything. You're right though, it's far better to forget and ignore.

            • adfsadfsadfsadf [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              For some reason I have this compulsive need to reply to everything.

              Me too. In my Myspace era - I did reply to every last thing. I was totally silly. There was no "disable reply" plus I could be an impossible person. Somebody is wrong on the internet*!* I'm middle-aged so even ~15 years ago - I was old enough to be an idiot for doing that. Maybe by the time I'm a AARP member - I will have finally and completely killed my bad habit.