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[–]solder0 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I'm still over there somewhat, just not as much as I used to be. I'm in agreement with the downvoting bs, it's horizontal censorship. Reddit does things like shadow ban you when your account gets really low karma, so it's a little weird seeing the refugees from reddit wanting a downvote button so badly complain about censorship. The site designers added those extra invisible consequences anyway.

And on that note, you really do have to be a special kind of crazy to call someone else a "snowflake" when they post something you disagree with. Talk about sensitive, sheesh.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

you really do have to be a special kind of crazy to call someone else a "snowflake" when they post something you disagree with. Talk about sensitive, sheesh.

It's tough to say how the discourse went.

Everybody's different.

My highschool friends and I were merciless savages to each other, often flipping the bird as a greeting, etc. We rarely took it personally, even though we occasionally could have (legit humiliation of one another).

We fucked each other on numerous occasions and found it hilarious. For example, we'd often stack friends lockers with porno mags when they had girlfriends, etc.

Some folks are a bit more coarse with others, but don't actually intend actual offense. And I can relate, but have reigned it in.

It's difficult to imagine feeling insulted by being called a snowflake.

Having said that, I've seen plenty of furious SJW types who struggle to tolerate any perceived slight. I can't say that I really understand where they're coming from, though...

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I don't think my comment was uncalled for, I haven't said it before but this dude was delusional. He said that there are a lot of bad people on reddit and he shouldn't be supposed to read their comments. He goes forward and asks reddit if they could highlight comments posted by 'assholes' so he can avoid reading them, even comments that were not downvoted to hell. To that I replied "You really want your safe space don't you little snowflake?"

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds reasonable to me. Certainly not below the belt.