This is what I'd call the "enabler" archetype that gets unhappy about friction (rightfully!) but takes some.. uh.. mental shortcuts when it comes to tracing back the source of it.

I'm sorry man. The problem is that this exact described dynamic (see also the other reply by me which you seem to have conveniently missed), is that it affects _all_ internet spaces and makes them utterly miserable.

I agree though that this meta stuff doesn't exactly improve SNR, and I am open for better solutions. But those need to actually solve the problem, instead of just silencing the immune response.

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Interesting side-thought

> with less karma too

I think this might point at (one of the) root cause(s) of the dysfunction I'm pointing at here.

Internet points ceased to be a metric documenting value quite a while ago. Something something Goodhart