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by candiodari 3143 days ago
I would strongly advise against caring about any leaderboard position. Besides, you get banned here for having meltdowns or showing your true policital opinion. I feel it likely this is going to happen to you (and me) sooner or later. So ... just don't care about it. Care about the real world. Even money is a better thing to care about.

The leaderboard here is internet points. That and a sac of crap is worth significantly less than a sac. Keep that in mind.

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There is contact information in my profile. If this advice were genuinely being given in good faith out of some kind of concern for my welfare, it could have been done privately.

Since it wasn't, I see no reason to take any of it at all seriously. Posting it publicly like this amounts to mudslinging. Publically announcing that me being upset over people repeatedly making personal attacks against me is, in your opinion, a banworthy offense amounts to planting ideas with ill intent. That in no way looks like any kind of good faith effort to be helpful to me personally. (Their personal attacks are a violation of the rules. If you want to crab at someone, it should be them, not me.)

I will add that "my true political opinion" is an incredibly specious characterization of my remarks. There is zero political opinion expressed here. I am one person who just happens to be female by accident of birth who is trying to figure out how to make my life work. That is it. There is zero political anything to my participation here. Getting fed up once in a while by the uphill battle I face for simply being female is not some political position.