Sounds like you've had this conversation before and you are comfortable being on the merry-go-around.
I think the problem with your opinion is that it conveys that you believe children are being throw into surgery rooms and given sex transitions loosely and without thought to the consequences.
I think your real opinion is that you believe children shouldn't be given unnecessary surgeries. If that is true, the large majority of the population would agree with you.
In addition, have you explored what Doctors believe is a necessary sex transition for a child? What are those parameters? If you don't know, then I would consider your original stance to be of ignorance. Since you really never dive into the subject, most people will assume that you haven't explored those parameters and don't understand the reasoning behind them. That is why you're facing aggression with your opinion.
You are entirely in control of what you say.. but it sounds like what you meant is not in line with what you're saying.
Do you deliberately want to belittle people with developmental issues? It doesn't sound like it. I think what @Dr_Cog is trying to say is that you should consider lining up the words you use with the message you're actually trying to convey.
I've had some time to think about it and I think I actually like the current setup. "Boost" provides more visibility to a post, while "upvote" and "downvote" is synonymous with agree/disagree.
In a way, I can disagree with someone AND boost it. Disagreeing with someone doesn't have to be hostile. I think it would be healthy if a community could disagree with each other in a civil manner.
I also like that if someone disagrees, that person cannot influence if the post gets less visibility.
Surprisingly, I've never heard of it. I've been playing and watching MMOs since as early as Ultima Online. I just watched a video of someone playing Realm Online.. and good grief.. it's about time for it to be benched.
Thanks for noting that. This is annoying to me as well. If not the title, at least have a way to skip the comment section. It's especially noticeable in communities made up of crossposts (ie. https://kbin.social/m/BestOf).
Reddit does have that.. and it was implemented in like.. Reddit's 10th year of operation. It's not a priority.
My wife took up knitting one summer and now we're stuck with this huge stash of yarn.
This is kbin. Come on in. We're ahead of the curve, but we know /u/spez is dead at the curb.
Your visit is long and great, we hope. Should you stay forever, help us float. For Reddit is gone, Spez is a fucking asshole I hate poems.
Spez: 'Reddit is a democracy!'
Also Spez:
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