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Originally Posted by Yamer
Although I planned to log out for a while I read your response and felt I owed you something in return.
If all that is true, which I have no reason to believe it's not, I'm sure you likely regret asking butterfly to "Please. Stop" while claiming "Half of this thread has turned political" when it was just two of us bringing any of this up.
You may also regret, as a mod, thanking this post:
It is indeed draining. You're a proven good person and I have nothing but the highest respect for you in this community, but this just didn't sit well with me. I hope you get why I consider this a misstep.
This community zaps me every time I engage on this topic. And even though there's so many ways to be encouraged by members far more informed and involved regarding it willing to speak, the general and accepted expression is "shut up and dribble".
The whole of the exchange felt disheartening. I feel that more and more on this site and yeah, that's probably a "me" problem. So taking ownership I'm going to vacate for a bit and see when I want to engage again with this community.
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Honestly, if you're seeking good vibes and sustained faith in humanity, I've come to realize CP is more often than not detrimental to those things. You have to pick your spots here and be able to forecast when threads are heading in a direction that's going to just be energy zapping and eject before it does.
I steer away from specific threads that are low-vibe topics of discussion and I've learned to just not read replies from a few specific posters because it's often just spirit-dampening in some way.
It's good to take some personal accountability (which you have control over) in the form of maintaining realistic expectations when coming here and preparing yourself to encounter crap and steering around it. But it seems there's always someone unexpectedly willing to say too much or cross a certain line that didn't need to be and it takes you out of "casually browsing a forum" to "wow, that was a little too real and disheartening to read".
I wish people in general were better to one another, and had the desire to understand, listen and learn more than they do. But this is the mixed up world we live in. We can only paddle onward and try to keep the water out of our hulls as best we can.