It does, but not all fish swim in the sea. Mom is trapped in a box in the subbasement. I'm the only one who can save her. This is how we stay a family.

That also makes it worse for normal people who'd be looking for answers.

While Reddit's databases have access to the edit history of a comment and would be able to potentially filter out vandalism or late comments, human viewers don't have that capability.

Same situation with things like Stack Overflow

I've done that before, and they've reverted my comments. I've also overwritten and then deleted my comments, and they've reverted them. Sometimes it takes them a while - a few months, once over a year - but somehow my comments always magically appear again.

Ok, what? How is increasing the amount of wrong information on the web not the opposite of helping?

There are definitely not more real people who actually give enough of a fuck to continuously put an effort in to deny every bot’s claim than there are right wing bots.

I tried, I got loads of bans from Reddit because the mods are generally right wing fucks themselves.

The solution is for every shit post or comment we need to make 10. Every advertising you see, you need to create an anti ad. You need to multiple their effort in the reverse. It costs them money. It costs us just time and effort.

I'm curious if one could do the math on this, if it can work. Like a cost analysis. I'm pretty sure it's not, like impossible by an order of magnitude.

They have billions of dollars to spend and can dominate and push speech at a much cheaper price. It costs them peanuts to buy votes or sockpuppets or bots. Or they own the algorithm. Meanwhile we have to work to survive and have limited time and energy. I think one of the biggest misconception is that ideas win, but reality is that we have an army of millions on one side and an army of thousands on the other, and there is no doubt who will win.

And worse yet, much of this isn't even deliberate, it's a side effect of tuning algorithms to maximize engagement. The more you yell the more they yell their more the engagement numbers go up and they win. Polarization and divisiveness is good business.

No clue if this is true or if this can even be researched, you'd probably need data from the social media providers. The only winning move I see would be to nationalize all social media and turn them into non-profit cooperatives that are controlled by their own workers.

I am a banana 🍌.

My spoon is too big 🥄.

Before leaving, I replaced all of my Reddit posts with Markov-generated bollocks trained on a corpus including William Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Conan the Barbarian, domestic appliance manuals, slash fiction, the Bible and Stackoverflow posts. Also the occasional fnord.

Suck on that, Spez.