Based on your profile, which says, "hide, hide from the dissenting opinions." I have to assume that you purposefully try and take the counter-argument.

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In my opinion - and not to be rude in my disagreement with you, TNG - I think the purpose of that statement or the backing behind it is as follows: bioemerl gets blocked/hushed/muted a lot, and it makes him really bitter. The profile statement is a passive aggressive attempt to make people feel bad when they navigate over to his profile after they have chosen to block/hush/mute him.

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I mean, I realize I'm analyzing here, but we tell people what we want them to know and how we tell them is part of that. He sees himself as the honorable dissenting opinion and we who find him completely intolerable are "hiding," synonymous in feel with "denying" "choosing not to see," "willful blindness" etc, as opposed to I don't know maybe human people who have the right to choose what other human people we want to interact with or not.

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Or what opinions they think are worth investing time with, and not.

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It's like "Oh, sorry you're so bitter about the fact that most people don't like your shitty opinions man, I see why you had to put it in your profile. Because your pretty skin is so thin and sensitive."

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I mean, thenewgreen - sorry I've edited this like a billion times - I do think bioemerl can be considered a troll - I guess that I just like to believe the best of people. i do think that your conclusions are valid and that your point in general is valid. So I start off disagreeing with you, but I'm not really.

I guess the difference is in whether or not you believe bioemerl is consciously trolling or not. I try not to believe that of people, so I see him/that statement as bitter, passive-aggressive, and impotently hacking away at a keyboard. But, if he is consciously trolling, that might actually make me feel a little better about his intellect, although not so much how he chooses to spend his time.

I stand by the fact that that statement is designed to make people feel bad for hushing/muting/unfollowing him, which is a bitter betsy "no one likes me and I want to shame you for not liking me" move. To me it just reeks of that. it's like the people who say "I think hubski is elitist" in their profiles. If that's the most important thing you have to say about yourself to every other hubski user, then really, why are you here? You can be elitist and still come here and have a fun time. But you think your personal feeling that it's elitist is the way you want to introduce yourself to everyone else on the site? Seriously, at that point, you're trying to insult people and piss them off.