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[–]chottohen[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Before posting this article, I took the headline literally and read only the beginning. It is not a good article and has a very misleading headlne. Apologies.

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Hey its all good. I posted an article last night and editorialized the headline a bit myself. I know on reddit they force you to keep the original headline of news articles. Here on saidit I think its a bit more relaxed, but who knows. I feel like even though here on saidit there are a lot more opposing views than on reddit, people manage to keep the disagreement chill. I've only been on here a week, and already I've had substantial disagreements with people that on reddit would have turned into flames, here its just totally mellow and ok. Even though the volume of interaction here is lower than on reddit, I feel like its more authentic and real. In retrospect, getting kicked off reddit is probably the best thing that could have happened to me. It is a valuable life lesson too, that having a social media app be skewed all liberal, or all conservative for that matter, is probably not the healthiest thing. On reddit once you've offended the howler monkeys by saying something not appropriately hive-mind enough, they'll come for you.

[–]chottohen[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was not a good article and the headline was misleading. It was so misleading that I posted the article before really getting the gist of it. I had an appointment and wanted to post it before going out. Some headline writers are either new or just not good at their job or, in this case, hyping the article. For those reasons, I think it's all right to rewrite the head to accentuate the aspect you find interesting. Opinions on this may vary.

Yes, it is mellow here. I was shadow banned on reddit for being against Obama.