[sethammons]

I'll burn some karma here: I know one is not supposed to question down votes, but here it goes. Why would someone down vote my comment? If someone doesn't think it adds to the narrative, skip the vote. If you feel it actively detracts or presents a false narrative, down vote.

> I'm shocked by the implication that there's so much of it - that there's enough to damage somebody's mental health

And I reply that just a few images had an outsized impact on me. And down voted. Normally, anecdotal evidence is replied to with the general response that "the plural of anecdote is not data."

Maybe the down note is that I'm not referencing mental health? Am I supposed to connect all the dots in my reply and go from "if a few images can have a visceral impact on me, that it is within reason that much more exposure especially over time could lead to mental health issues"?

[Anthony-G]

It seems like some of your sibling comments have similarly been down-voted. God knows why. I’ve upvoted yours and theirs because I consider personal anecdotes to be useful contributions to discussion. If discussions were to be based solely on peer-reviewed meta-analyses of empirical data, they would be poorer for missing the colour and detail – and far, far drier.