Is it possible to post on Reddit without people trying to debate every single comment you make?

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[–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

When you say debate, do you mean a reasonable discussion between civil adults? Or do you mean brigading and just just looking through post histories to find any "problematic" posts you can cancel someone for? I haven't seen a reasonable debate on reddit for over a decade.

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Neither of those. More of being nasty to someone and responding emotionally negatively rather than…actually asking someone to elaborate or saying “I don’t agree due to xyz”. They demand rather than ask and want to shut you up and change your mind. When I get bombarded like that, the last thing I wanna do is be flexible and walk them through my thought process or justify anything (as evidenced by a moronic comment elsewhere on this thread where I ended up calling the moron derogatory names because they were being a cunt rather than trying to understand that I was making an observation about a prevalent pattern on Reddit, NOT holding people to standards that I myself cannot uphold).

Like….😩