Whenever I see that I've received a reply here I get a little dopamine hit and I think "oh man, time to see what my fellow chapos think of what I've said!". This is even true when I've been arguing for veganism. Sure, there may be some disagreement, but it probably won't be super, dishearteningly nasty.
By contrast, every single time I see that orange envelope on reddit I tend to feel a little pang of anxiety and my first thought is always "oh fuck, what did I comment on again? Am I about to get some literal hate speech thrown my way?"
So yeah, thanks friends! Someday I may even ditch reddit for good because of you, and my life would be better for it.
You mean it doesn't make good conversation to call every user a white chauvinist revisionist when I see a comment I don't like?
Begone, white chauvinist revisionist!
Honestly those are pretty mild. Have seen some pretty nasty stuff, most of the real problematic stuff gets picked up in modding though. Usually users that just don't seem to recognise when a disagreement bordering on a slapfight has progressed beyond that into the realm of actual nastyness. Just remember that it's really rare.