Engaging any controversial topic might earn you a fan it seems. You contributed to White Lies. There was a fair bit of disagreement in that thread and it wasn't pretty. Prismattic and Wedrifid also remarked in the previous open thread after participation in White Lies that they were mass downvoted. I got unusually many downvotes in the thread too, which I don't find surprising, but haven't experienced systematic downvoting.

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