Comments by "Cinderball" (@cinderball1135) on "The Bogus "Tattling" to Sam Seder Has to Stop" video.
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It's a fairly endemic problem to the internet - people's need to react is greater than their ability to read, in many cases.
About 70% of my time spent writing messages to people on the internet on forums, I'm basically having to ask people and go back to read what I wrote in my first post, because they have abstracted some obscure and twisted meaning from my words that definitely is not a reflection of my actual position - or might be straight up irrelevant to the conversation at hand. The best strategy for dealing with it, I think, is to laugh at it. Don't get mad - that just gives them the idea that they're onto something. Literally just laugh in their faces and let them feel like the fools they are. It's the kind of reaction that will sting, but will stop it dead in its tracks.
Or, if you want to be the good guy in the conversation, just say what you have to say, leave, and don't read the replies.
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