We know we’re not alone when people actually take the time to respond. If they’re civil, they can lay out their differences of opinion and actually abide by rules of debate and come to some conclusion, or, at least the endless back and forth would have some honor about it. People really say the rudest shit to one another here.

Yeah, Reddit ruined forums and it doesn’t really benefit anyone to stuff every niche interest on top of one another. As someone said in this thread, there aren’t a lot of things that aggregate (some of) the news of the world, and comments sections can be kind of fun to engage with, but holy shit the mob mentality around here incentivizes a lot of the worst in humanity.

You can turn the votes off in Voyager, though you can still upvote which is nice, for those who care, but I don’t really post to get a survey on what random people think about what I have to say, is that why you post?

I’d say she has about a Liz Cheney’s chance in Santa Monica of getting a republican nomination.

oh come on, haven’t you seen Elon’s new car? It’s all like vrroooom skeeeerrr pssshhh! Finally a solution to all those half pipes out there.

So there’s hope.