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Thanks.

I have a subreddit called HealthWorks. It has no real traction.

I have had several health sites over the years. They get no real traction.

The problem is not setting up a website. I have a zillion of them.

The problem is mostly positioning and framing and getting audience engagement. I've never figured that piece out.

I know a lot about health stuff, so much so that when I begin talking about what you can do for yourself at home, people get all up in arms and accuse me of "practicing medicine without a license" and things like that.

I started a site a few weeks back in reaction to the pandemic called Stop Touching Your Face and someone kindly gave me feedback on positioning it, but I never developed it. I don't think it works to talk about the pandemic and try to address the pandemic directly.

I have a health site about my medical condition. I rarely update it.

I am continuing to think on the problem space and I hope to eventually find a way to talk about stuff and have it go well. But I find it crazy making that people are openly hostile to the stuff I want to talk about. I don't get that.

You know someone with potential solutions in a life threatening situation and your response is rage and downvotes instead of trying to help them figure out how to better talk about it? Are you, like, trying to die or something?

I just honestly don't get that. I never have. It's the same reaction people with my medical condition give me and it makes no sense to me at all.




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