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Kryptogal (Kate, if you like)'s avatar

How about comments that ask you questions and request that you do more work then you've already done in writing the piece? ;)

Because I would really like some examples of this type of provoking comment from NonZionism. He generally seems pretty reasonable to me, so I'm surprised that you and Hanania experience him as such am irritating thorn. So now here I am asking you for some links instead of taking my own time to scroll through all your comment sections. Which I realize is probably annoying but, hey, never hurts to ask right?

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John A. Johnson's avatar

I have sometimes wondered how my comments are perceived, and now I know. I am not a fan of incivility, although I understand that sometimes disrespectful comments can still have informational value. It just seems to me that the useful information in such comments could have been conveyed civilly, so what is the point of being disrespectful? I find that stuff that engages the amygdala takes resources away from the frontal cortex, where actual progress might be made.

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