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I am in full agreement with you, but I still feel surprised by the amounts of replies that person got.

Seems like people love to argue pointless negativity even if the "argument" it makes has zero roots in reality. That's extremely sad. :(

I don't know what that person posted but if you're referring to my post above as pointless negativity I just don't know what to think.

No, wasn't directed at you, but at a heavily downvoted (and subsequently flagged) comment which was a very obvious troll and flame bait.

It's human nature, so we can't change these effects, just maybe interpret them as damage and route around them a bit.

My observation as well.

It seems that the idea of "don't make stupid people famous" will never work. Shame.