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I doubt the number matters so much that it is negative. If you put in a few minutes to write a reasoned, thoughtful and informative reply and the groupmind instantly -50's it for no discernible reason, that's a really good signal that investing time in that community is a poor decision.

Reddit used to have informal rules against downvoting those you disagree with because it lowers the caliber of participants on their forum. I guess they don't enforce it any more.

Text heavy usually means content heavy.

A disturbing amount of the web is "How To Make A Made for Adsense Clickbait Page In 2021" containing lots and lots of pictures to pad out the ads and amazon referral links, but very little prose.

Rupert Murdoch fires journalists who step out of line within hours. Doesn't take long for the new editorial culture to emerge within businesses he's acquired.

Windows 11's start bar makes accessing settings and files easy, and gets out of the damn way of my work rather than pushing information poor animated tiles, shovelware and ads at my face while hogging my entire screen.

Finally, it's just like Windows 7.

I don't use a Surface tablet, but I'm told pen input is a major use case. Maybe pen tools should be made modal rather than uniform even across devices without pen input?

Not if he wants to live in that country, or at all.

The reason why he's in Russia and not buried in an unmarked ditch is because Russia considers exposing Americas equal hypocrisy to be politically useful.

If you're a newspaper baron running propaganda pieces hyping the CIA's moral righteousness in executing the leaders of yet another elected democracy, you're not exactly going to have doubts about their ability to kill you and everyone you love to the sound of media trumpets.

The more concentrated media is, the fewer families TPTB need to threaten with violence for not keeping the newspapers on message. It's really very convenient.