One thing I've been trying to do when I'm interacting with a member and it starts leaning negative, is to imagine that we're sitting across from one another grabbing a bite of lunch.
"Is what I'm about to type something I'd be willing to say to this person if we were sitting 3 feet apart?"
Obviously not a cure all, but I think it's been improving my forum presence.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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