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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?
That was like my argument too. We were two guys on the net who had a "somebody is wrong on the net" moment.
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.
For some reason I have this compulsive need to reply to everything. You're right though, it's far better to forget and ignore.
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.