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Could just be an old stickler (but probably not really).
More disjointed remarks:
Do you remember when people used to try to educate others on the proper use of the downvote?
People seem to think reddit invented threaded messages or something.
Redditors have been professional point-missers for years (bluh bluh you can't compare those two things because they are not the same thing bluhb), but the reading comprehension is just aggressively bad this decade. Which is to say it seems to have reached normie levels of knee-jerk emotional reactions to keywords and shitty heuristics about which team you're on.
At the same time, I continue to have good experiences of coming across people I can see eye-to-eye with on something, or being able to civilly and constructively navigate a disagreement. Sometimes it feels like those experiences are happening more in recent years than was usual. And I distinctly recall a super vitriolic era in reddit comment debate (as it were). Even as the normism becomes impossible not to notice, it remains possible to find something decent. Assuming it's not a well-tuned LLM.
Back in my day, a wall of text was when someone filled the entire height of the screen (on a desktop PC monitor, obviously) without using any paragraph breaks. Now one good paragraph is "omg muh wall of text" and you'll get the "tl;dr" or "ain't reading allat" in response to a comment that amounts to less than a 90-second read even at the embarrassingly slow average adult reading speed.