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25 Post author: Evan_Gaensbauer 15 December 2014 05:44AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 December 2014 02:11:47PM 7 points [-]

Rationality is about winning. If your goal is to give people advice that they will accept, imbuing your message with hopefulness and cheer will assist you in that goal. If your goal is to get people to continue asking for advice, slapping a "Working as intended" on their complaints about your advice-giving technique is an abysmal failure.