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Sort of like moving your smelly dumpster in front of your classy restaurant to increase the dumpster's reputation.

And now, the restaurant is on fire, while the dumpster is fine...

This is a good metaphor, so let's run with it.

It would certainly improve your reputation among raccoons.

What are the raccoons in this metaphor? presumably the idiot demographic

Yeah, something like that. Idiots, trolls, etc.