I’ve been here since 2000. and it has always been that way. In the beginning I would make a comment and boom, I would get blasted, so I stopped commenting. I’m much older now and I couldn’t care less how you respond to me. I’ve grown a much thicker skin.
That’s almost my moto.
I often say (in my posts) “Don’t bother to flame me because I never read responses and more importantly I don’t care what you think”.
If you don’t look at responses, you won’t know what they are saying about you. And if you don’t care what they think, even better.
Dr. GASBAG as I always called him was just that, a GASBAG.
Me too! At first I was in awe of the brilliant posters here back in the late 90s. I slowly started commenting & got more comfortable expressing myself & now at 72 I just speak my mind. I know some ppl will disagree with me but I don’t take it personally anymore unless they stoop to the level of insults. Of course, it’s a different story on X where I’m slinging crap at liberals every day. 🤣
In reality, it forced people to defend their opinions and prove they had the conviction to stand by their opinions.
I've seen too many people at work who are asked to give a recommendation and then collapse at the first tough question, thinking the boss is shooting them down when they are really just testing the confidence that the person has in their recommendation.
-PJ