wow @yapapmatt
'many times on Steem in particular where someone responds to something I’ve written with a mean, personal attack, and my initial reaction is almost always to respond in kind. '
I am surprised on two counts with the above.
- I just can't imagine someone making a personal attack against you
(I hope I was not one of them : ) ) - Your instinct is to often to respond in kind.
This gives me the idea that there is still hope for me. Maybe not much but some.
Of course you were definitely not one of them! But you would be surprised - there's a lot of people who don't like voting bots and that's where a lot of the attacks come from. I understand that point of view completely even if i disagree with it, but disagreements should never call for that kind of behavior.
Also I definitely get really boiled up a lot of times and it really takes a lot of effort on my part not to lash out back at the person.