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I'm actually quite enjoying how divisive a simple quote can be.

I wonder how often I've made a comment and gotten no engagement. This quote seems to have gotten more engagement than the original comment. And quite emotive engagement.

Makes me wonder what that means. Is it genuine curiosity? Or is the quote saying something that the original commenter couldn't see themselves? It's interesting they suggested if I was insinuating something negative about them.

Importantly, they did not ask me. They told me. That too tells us something about what pairing experience with them would be.



> I'm actually quite enjoying how divisive a simple quote can be

The word for that is "trolling".

> Importantly, they did not ask me. They told me. That too tells us something about what pairing experience with them would be.

I asked and you avoided answering. What does that tell us?


> The word for that is "trolling".

Oh that is fascinating, so highlighting a verbatim quote, in context can be trolling?

What that makes me think of is that people are in denial about what the quote tells us and have displaced those feelings on to me! Amazing stuff.

> I asked and you avoided answering. What does that tell us?

This is interesting because no you didn't ask me what it tells us. You asked if I wanted to say something and I answered that the quote stands alone.

Really interesting stuff in this thread!




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