The pressure to make money out of it will turn your forum into what could be another subreddit. To repeat HN you'd need to remove pictures (they invoke emotions and attract unsophisticated audience) and all the marketing fluff, hire a team of people who deal with autos on day to day basis (mechanics, salesmen, dealship owners, pro racers, stars like the ex Top Gear team) and advertise everywhere that here's the no bs forum about autos. Wait for 10 years and you'll get a critical mass of audience. You'd still have to pay expensive mods. On top of that you'll have to figure a non-ads business model to support the forum.
Eh you can say as much in a more delicate way – deliver every one of those points. I’m not going to feel bad for thinking we can all be nicer to each other.
I fail to see the connection to the "big corps" here, nor being allergic to the truth. This is about being nicer, as a human being. Becoming more empathetic towards a person who is showing their product for the world to see for the first time.
Of course it may have perceived flaws. Do you choose to beat the person for doing it that way, or do you want to offer gentle advice in order to help them? The motive behind the comment is hidden in its delivery.
You can say your truth, all of it - but you can say it in a nice way or in a shitty way. How you say it will define you.
>The motive behind the comment is hidden in its delivery.
This is exactly why there is blowback to the suggestion that GGP was not being nice enough. It comes across as a desire to obscure the motive of that comment.
really? at big corp people talk behind each other’s backs about how shitty each other are or another team is but never confront people directly until shit has hit the fan and someone is going on a permanent vacation
I get what you're saying, but being deceitful / being nonconfrontational / sugarcoating stuff is a completely different matter. You can be direct, while being nice.
It seems a lot of people think that if you have to confront someone or tell the truth, you can't be nice. That is pretty sad.
You can be nice, and you can tell people what you really think. It is 100% possible.
It is about how you word it. It is about putting in some effort to take care of others' feelings. I.e. being caring and empathetic.
Everyone can't just collectively move away from the MLS database. I'm sure redfin is trying to figure it out.
I like to say that the reason you need two agents to sell a house is because you need one agent to convince the seller to sign that contract and another agent to push the buyer.
In an ideal world the seller would hire someone to show the house to potential buyers (e.g. redfin pays a fixed hourly rate to its agents who show the house) and then both seller and buyer hire real estate attorney to close the deal. 3K usd max. This nice plan falls apart when sellers and buyers can't agree where houses will be listed for sale (don't offer craiglist).
I take it you're a person not subject to racism, sexism, and other common forms of discrimination?
Rather than hearing about it from the internet, you might spend some time talking with those individuals who do experience it. They're often reluctant to talk about it -- especially if you're likely to respond with some variant of "Oh, that's not really so bad".
Most people are nice in this world, but there are enough non-nice people that everybody in some marginalized group gets subjected to it -- often every single day. Often it's small, but a small thing every day adds up. And being unable to talk about it for fear of being told "it's not so bad" is, itself, just one more small thing. And that means that some people who think they're nice aren't as nice as they think they are.
You sound like an efficient assets manager. People turn to a suicide because their life is miserable, often for objective reasons (e.g. cancer) and you may find it hard to believe, but it's their right to end it.
Before curbing the "gun epidemic" I'd look up how many lives are saved vs how many are unrightfully taken. A proxy for the first number is the number of burglaries - about 1.5 millions per year. A proxy for the second is about 10 thousands - all gun related deaths excluding suicides and internal gang disputes.
Again though, defensive gun uses is not a proxy for lives saved. In general adding guns to a situation where murder is not the intent will increase the number of lives lost.
In a situation where a criminal breaks into someone's house and brandishes a knife, the intent doesn't matter and the criminal shouldn't have agency to decide the outcome. I think this is what rubs me the wrong way about your comment: who gets to decide the outcome - the robber or the one being robbed.
It’s a better proxy than burgs. Also, the definition implies that the firearm was used defensively, that is, it’s presence helped avoid a deadly confrontation
I was curious too. The FBI provides nationwide numbers for 2019: ~268k robberies, of which 16% occurred at a residence, so ~43k. [1]
The National Institute for Mental Health says that ~24k suicides are inflicted with with firearms in 2018. [2]
Hard to figure out how many robberies might have been "resolved" by an armed homeowner, but I note the FBI says that there were only 334 "Justifiable Homicides" by civilians using firearms in 2019. [3]
Thanks for looking up these numbers. I have looked in to it before, and found [0], which implies about 50,000 self-defense uses of a firearm per year. Of course, not every self-defense use involves firing a shot, and not every shot fired ends up with a death.
