Nicer

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Thank you all for having really civilized discussions in my controversial opinions post. I really appreciate having a readership who challenge me without getting belligerent about it.

Let me follow up with a nice warm fuzzy post. I have about 250 people subscribed to this journal, and a thoroughly excellent crowd you all are. And maybe some of you would like to meet some other similarly excellent people. So, I've invented a game.

If you would like to, please comment to this post, and I'll introduce you to everybody else by giving a reason why I think you're great. Some people I know better than others, so I can't promise all my introductions will exactly encapsulate why someone might want to get to know you. You're also welcome to comment to someone else's thread and ask for a specific introduction to that person; I know some people are more confident than others about just jumping in and introducing themselves to a stranger. I am also happy to matchmake if you would like that; ask me for a recommendation of a personal journal and / or community from my circles.

And of course, feel free to repost this game in your own journal, if you think it would be a good way to make connections between some of your people. I think this could go quite well if it spreads a few hops away from here, but also worth doing even if no-one picks it up.

Comments

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I only recently met jjhunter; kaberett introduced us and I can totally see why they thought we would get on. jjhunter posts really thoughtful collections of links, and has a knack for saying something quietly thoughtful in potentially fraught discussions. She's a powerhouse of working behind the scenes and encouraging people to make there be a whole lot more poetry on DW than there might otherwise be.

[adrian_turtle]

Thank you for calling such a wonderful person to my attention!