Asked what advice he might now add to his 2009 book, Fierce Style: How To Be Your Most Fabulous Self, he replies, "Burn it, it's the worst book".
After that, self-replies become gradually more positive.
They then ran the classifier on the entire set of threads that had at least one reply and then one self-reply from the originator.
Kang and co found that the sentiment in the first self-reply is generally significantly more positive than the original post.
They looked only at the replies published before the self-replies, and they also concentrated on quick replies to rule out the possibility that other factors might be responsible for the change, such as a change in health.
"Pressure's all self-imposed," replied Cegles, sitting next to his coach.
Mr. Trump, asked if he saw similarities between his reputation and Mr. Deutsch's as supremely assertive and self-confident, replied, "You're trying to be nice as you say that".
When I asked him during the 2000 campaign about why he hadn't inherited his father's phobia about the dread singular pronoun, he laughed and self-deprecatingly replied, "That's the difference between a Phi Beta Kappa and a gentleman's C".
Cable, filled with self-loathing, replies that "it's not something you're born with", yet it is an ingrained part of their upbringing ("You've Got to Be Carefully Taught").
Louche, kind and often rather trying for the many who loved him, he was best known to the rest of us as the creator of the Henry Root Letters, a 1980 bestseller in which the famous and pompous were invited to help punctuate their self-satisfaction by replying to letters purportedly written by a bigoted wet-fish merchant from Elm Park Mansions, SW10.
And you (if you are me, and for all practical purposes you are) say to yourself, "Self, does that guy know he just made a reference to a cult whose leader, Jim Jones, urged all of his followers to drink poisoned fruit drink, shortly before 900 of them did just that and died?" And if your self is like my self, it will reply, "No, no, he doesn't know that, because he is a dipshit".
