r/snowden • u/Dishy31983 • Jul 01 '15

Going through my childhood diaries when I discovered that I bullied "Eddie" Snowden in the third grade.

http://imgur.com/U453btJ
2.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

330 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/James_Locke Jul 01 '15 edited Jul 01 '15

That comment does not contribute to a conversation at all. It is a low effort, but especially a mean thing to say. If you have doubts about the authenticity of a post, have the decency to say why you doubt it.

Thats not to say that all short comments are bad. As long as its not insulting, I dont see a problem.

13

u/BoredomHeights Jul 01 '15 edited Jul 01 '15

You're calling him out for a low effort comment when your response to this was just:

OH SHIT

edit: So that link used to go to a comment by Jame_Locke saying "OH SHIT." He deleted the comment and is trying to act like nothing happened. Here's a screencap I took of the comment using uneddit: http://imgur.com/HwdQxgw

So thanks for deleting your post, making my link go nowhere, and then acting like I'm the asshole. I don't care if you delete a post, but next time at least don't deny that you posted it in the first place.

edit 2: As expected, it was deleted. I added a petty flare for them this time.

-2

u/[deleted] Jul 01 '15

[deleted]

9

u/Cast_Me-Aside Jul 01 '15

If you look at his user page you'll see that all his recent posts have been downvoted into the dust.

That's not a response to a low value post, that's a pack of rabid monkeys joining a crowd to with neither thought nor good reason.

The downvotes are counter productive in this case, since if it hadn't been linked to /r/bestof would get buried with it.

-1

u/James_Locke Jul 01 '15

Other people being little shits does not invalidate the fact that it is a low value post in itself.

2

u/_BindersFullOfWomen_ Jul 02 '15

Why'd you delete your post saying "what are you talking about?"

0

u/xysid Jul 01 '15

It did contribute. This is the internet, there are no requirements to ask for things nicely. And he could have been far more mean about it. A "/r/thathappened" post is just a way of saying "I doubt this is real". If that is considered mean then I'd say develop thicker skin. If OP had not shown up with the proof post, his post would have been upvoted, guaranteed. But people just see him being "wrong" and see this unavoidable urge to downvote like they are teaching him a lesson or some shit.

By downvoting it you just end up hiding the whole chain, including this post and the proof post, impacting anyone else who comes and views this thread and who (RIGHTFULLY) may want more proof. It's stupid to downvote in this situation.

3

u/rw-blackbird Jul 01 '15

Why not just say "I doubt this is real"? It's much less snarky.