I had mine hidden because you say one controversialthing in the wrong community and they’re digging for dirt in comments from years ago.

I don’t understand how that’s supposed to work, you’d have to have posted some bad takes, and even if you did, “hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled” isn’t going to turn anyone against you.

It really only affects people who don’t stand behind their words.

“hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled”

This would never work. It actually would, 100% lead to being mass downvoted. Not just reddit, but here too.

exactly. I wonder sometimes at comments. People seem to have limited experience with other people here, and are overly optimistic about how reasonable and kind people are… they are not. especially not in a social media setting.
The way to deal with that is to simply not care about down votes. They are meaningless.