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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @3a42879d5f 16 Sep \ on: Coping with haters meta
I learned this one from Joe Rogan-- Post and ghost. "Don't read the comments."
My take on that is to make your voice heard, speak your truth, and then never read the comments. Commentors are using your words as entertainment, they're not your friends.
The voices that matter are friends and family in your sneakernet.
It's a rapid recipe for becoming stupid without even requiring any traumatic brain injury. The academic equivalent,
Read your critics, and never respond to them.
is slightly more tolerant of acknowledging the wisdom of your peers, even if they never solicit your review.
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Your style of response is quite provocative and will inevitably tend to generate negative possibly hateful responses.
Do you understand why?
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Do you understand why?
Sure; there's not any perfect spoken equivalent for this, that, let alone
the other thing
... however, I would literally rather live on a desert island with hungry wolves to keep me honest, than use some threaded TikTok abomination where any comment is muted until the eye-tracking camera firmware activates individual voices.
[ and yes, I also get flak for my choice of words when actually talking ]
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