Funny, I just thought “My dad would get a real kick out of these.”
Just another reddit exile.
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.
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.
A) There is no hive mind. That’s just you perceiving a bunch of people who happen to hold a similar opinion as a monolith, and that’s an illusion. You have no data whatsoever to support the idea that they’re thinking in concert or even have the same reasons for their reactions.
d) Instead of having a kneejerk reaction when you get this kind of response and immediately being defensive, step back and use it as a reflective moment. Maybe you misjudged the room, misinterpreted the potential impact of what you posted, or are simply on a different track from those who downvoted. What can you learn from it? Do you need to change your own approach, or do you need to reevaluate your audience?
You’re not wrong, but think of the number of people this brought joy to.
Is it wasteful? Sure. Is it a bit of a face slap to people living paycheck to paycheck, assuming they’re even that well off? Sure. But is it a net negative? Who can say? Unlike most fuck-you-money splurges, this one probably at least lightened some people’s days for a moment, and that’s not nothing.
Nothing wrong with that guy. Awareness is a good tool for everyone to have.
Pointing out what it is doesn’t necessarily carry judgment with it, it’s just facts, and you can use them however you like.
Part of me wonders if it’s an attempt to tank the SEO, so people can’t search for or news or easily talk about the site anymore - because it’s been nothing but bad.
Read a sidebar before posting in a community please. This is not for your support questions.
Ahh, I see. They couldn’t get their shit together for April, and are pulling this out now as an attempt to placate their users.
The city should fine the fuck out of NBCUniversal for the full cost of replacing those trees. Those are not healthy trees.
My point, if I have one, is that it’s trendy for a vegan to object to eating sterile eggs even from well-treated chickens, but hardly anybody wants to talk about the way too many dogs are treated, just as a manner of course.
Yes, many people treat their dogs well, or think they do, but they’re still routinely confined, leashed, fed cheap crap food, left alone in the yard with no stimulation for most of the day. They’re bred to serve and treated like furniture or at best interactive toys or escorts to make their owners feel good.
Nobody wants to talk about how miserable most of these animals probably are for large parts of their existence, because they wag their tails and jump excitedly in the rare moments when their people actually give them attention. Hardly anyone wants to give a thought to what an existence as a dog muct actually be like. And that’s for the well-treated ones. There are just as many or more who are penned in tiny yards or otherwise mistreated, but don’t you dare criticise dog owners or the industry for turning a blind eye so long as the dog food money keeps flowing.
That has got to be literally older than the internet. I swear I remember seeing it hanging in my grandpa’s garage when I was a kid, and it was already yellowed by then.
Funny to be more concerned about the chickens than the animal enslaved for life and bred to feign affection.
But then it’s typical for rationality to go out the window for some people when dogs are concerned.
I would advocate for the return of intermissions! Theater chains would love it, because it would mean more concessions.
Cool. Cool cool cool.