I re-read my last few dozen comments, and decided that none of them was hostile and unconstructive. Phew. (That was a worthwhile exercise, thanks for the prod.) (I hope I’m judging myself fairly!) (One or two of them were OK but could have been better.)
On my own lesswrong posts, I feel like it’s pretty rare that I get a comment that I’m not happy to have gotten, or at least neutral. But that obviously has as much to do with me as with the comment text. I do certainly get comments that seem to convey a negative & hostile attitude, but usually they’re at least somewhat constructive, and I (hopefully) respond graciously, and it ends up being a productive and positive exchange at the end. And it also obviously depends on the post topic & content—e.g. I’m often writing technical or uncontroversial posts that tend not to draw hostile comments.
I re-read my last few dozen comments, and decided that none of them was hostile and unconstructive. Phew. (That was a worthwhile exercise, thanks for the prod.) (I hope I’m judging myself fairly!) (One or two of them were OK but could have been better.)
On my own lesswrong posts, I feel like it’s pretty rare that I get a comment that I’m not happy to have gotten, or at least neutral. But that obviously has as much to do with me as with the comment text. I do certainly get comments that seem to convey a negative & hostile attitude, but usually they’re at least somewhat constructive, and I (hopefully) respond graciously, and it ends up being a productive and positive exchange at the end. And it also obviously depends on the post topic & content—e.g. I’m often writing technical or uncontroversial posts that tend not to draw hostile comments.