CeruleanRuin

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Funny, I just thought "My dad would get a real kick out of these."

It's an influence game like anything else online now that the Internet is commoditized. Corporations and political influence campaigns can and do pay for control of high-traffic accounts and communities to nudge discussions to benefit whatever they're selling.

I've never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you're getting banned elsewhere for it?

On a dog.

"Law & order" has always been code for putting [whatever marginalized group you don't like] in jail.

Named in honor of Biff Yeager, I presume. His mail-in campaign finally paid off.

Hooray, ten minutes of new Groot content incoming. (Seriously though, I'll take it.)

Honestly it's a problem with binary ranking systems across the board. Maybe if there were additional axes you could vote on, like "agree/disagree", "quality/low effort", "nuanced/trite", etc. I don't know how one would go about implementing such a thing, but until someone does, we're stuck with having a simplistic system that doesn't adequately reflect the complicated responses real people have to content.

Yup.

I spent over a decade on reddit, and I learned that whenever someone did stuff like that, it was because I had struck a chord. And they usually got bored of their harassment pretty quickly when I ignored them.

Give him some slack, he's young. At least I assume so.