# Patrick O’Brian at Trump

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patrick-o-brian-at-trump/988274>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 8, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patrick-o-brian-at-trump/988274 "2023-08-08T22:35:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patrick-o-brian-at-trump/988274/21 "2023-08-09T22:57:20Z")

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In all candor I appreciate you saying this.

I had wandered over to Reddit the past few years and have enjoyed it, but recently I have been pondering my various behaviors and have decided I spend way too much time there, so I quit cold turkey at the end of June.

There are a number of social media platforms that I refuse to follow for a variety of reasons; Facebook, X (was Twitter), etc. Reddit has now joined them.

The thing about the SDMB is that there is a level of civility that I appreciate, and a general lack of anonymity (we may not know each other’s real names but it’s about as close as we can get on the internet) that I approve of.

However I have a tendency to hit & run; drop some comments and leave for a couple weeks, and the conversations that occur here deserve more attention than that. We’ll see what the future brings.

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