One gentle DM from a stranger made me rethink my whole ban story
I got booted from a gardening forum three years ago for calling a mod's weed advice dangerous. I spent months telling anyone who would listen that I was right and they were wrong. Then last January, someone messaged me on a different site, saying they tried my method after seeing my old posts copied somewhere. They told me their tomato plants recovered and thanked me by name, which I never used publicly. That one person, out of nowhere, made me realize my anger was never about helping others, it was about winning an argument. Now I focus on sharing what I know in places where people actually ask, not where I feel forced to fight. Has anyone else had a stranger quietly validate you after a ban, and did it soften your stance?