I’m honestly pretty sure I’ve read this on reddit and it’s a repost. Trying to remember which sub I read it on. This is not the first time in the past few weeks that I’ve read a person mysteriously trying to avoid pooping for a few days.
Poop is always popular. Poop is universal. Poop is fun. We all poop. Poop is guaranteed engagement. While I don’t mind a poop post here and there, I sure hope we won’t bring all of those obviously fake posts from Reddit over here.
You should aim to barely be reacting. Focus on your breathing to distract your whole nervous system from the feeling of discomfort the cold water brings.
You’re training your body to not react to adverse events. To roadblocks, to shitty situations, to things that might otherwise derail you.
Smoke one, I promise it will be disgusting. Later that day, will yourself outside to smoke another. Repeat 2 or 3 times a day until the pack is gone. Live this way and be addicted to nicotine for a year. After a year, do it in reverse and quit.
Afterwards, you’ll be able to will anything into reality.
I would say first and foremost be kind to yourself, @SubArcticTundra. Strengthening your willpower begins with good self-care techniques. Set regular, realistic, and achievable goals and when you achieve them, do something positive for yourself. Too often we are our own worst enemies and by beating yourself up you actually make it harder to achieve what you really want. This is something I struggle with even though I do not have ADHD. Will-power comes not from negative reinforcement but from the positive kind. 😀
I feel the opposite. If someone goes on an “Ask” community and is responding to most answers, it feels like they’re trying to push an agenda. The polite thing, in my mind, is upvote the answers you get and only respond to ask clarifying questions or maaaaybe say thanks if anything is particularly insightful or helpful.
While of course i have a reason for posting this thread just like everyone else’s always does. It’d be really weird not having an abnormally high reply rate giving the spirit of my post lol. I could have gone the other way and intentionally replied to zero people as a joke.
Under normal conditions i would do like you say, just not for this post for obvious reasons.
edit: also, some people are just more invested or friendly, they might want some conversation. I do realise you are taking a stab at me, but its ok to chat a bit.
Heh I guess I can see how that helps. Because I was thinking something along the lines of forcing myself to close a YT video half way through, which is essentially the same effect. (Not that YT videos make me orgasm or anything lol)
I’ve always felt that my willpower is the only thing I have any strength in. The trouble is, that in order to exercise my will, I must concentrate on doing so. With ADHD focusing on anything can be hard as fuck if there’s too many distractions. So I eliminate the distractions (or as many as I possibly can).
If I’m posting a question, I simply won’t have anything better to say to someone who answered with more expertise than me 🤷♂️. If I say thanks to everyone just for the sake of it, I feel like I’m clogging up the comment section.
Yep, just found it the moment I realized it was a thing in this thread - go to your account settings and you’ll find an option to unselect bot accounts
I wish there was a way to just mark bot accounts…like finding out it’s a bot doing most the posting in TIL…wtf is that? If the community needs a bot to grow it, perhaps it’s not an important community on Lemmy at this time? Perhaps there’s another sub that’s going to grow more organically? In which we will infact learn something today?
Just want bot-less communities (other than fun/helpful ones that aren’t Grond) that aren’t headed by greed. Jfc.
I don’t think it’s wrong to recreate a beloved community, and I think it makes sense to also populate it with content. I just think that posting a copy of Reddit is a problem, and automated posts too often are also not good. At that point you’re trying to force the community into existence rather than having it be organic. I think it’s okay to boost the community a bit, but not to try to make Lemmy the new Reddit.
I will say that Lemmy in general seems very Reddit-like, which is what causes people to try to make Lemmy the new Reddit, so I’m not surprised that people are just trying to migrate subreddits to communities here. I think Lemmy needs a bit more of an identity to avoid that.
Where abouts? The only option I see is “bot account” tick box which I have switched off (but still see bots). I thought that option was whether you are a bot account?
Has never bothered me and I do it myself sometimes. I don’t make generic “thank you” type comments usually, I just upvote people instead. So I won’t reply unless I actually have something worth saying. Usually I will have something to say, but not always.
Also depends how many replies. If I ask a question and one person provides the answer, I’ll say something. If I start a thread and it takes off though, I’ll just observe. And I think most people are that way, just because a popular thread can be a little overwhelming.
Interesting to hear your side of it. I’ve just responded to a few posts in a row that responded zero times, but ran off to post elsewhere. People worked hard in them so its worth an opinion or two.
I know it can be a bit awkward too, to respond after so much is said from so many people.
Getting zero upvotes after writing a ton of text is a bit… not fun.
I got invested in a thread from a guy being eaten alive by mosquitoes and posted a joke, but then realised i didn’t read it well and he seemed serious, so i replied properly. He ended up with a ton of replies and didn’t say a word lol. Not saying there can’t be valid reasons like going to bed or ducking out to the shops in a fit of rage to get equipment for the mosquitocaplyse. Seeing it happen more than in one post is the part that’s really getting me curious now.
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