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I genuinely can’t think of any reason, outside of corporate interest to push engagement.

On Reddit, I found that blocking people by account age and link karma noticeably improved the site. edit: For example, blocking 1 year old accounts with more than 100k link karma. /edit Mostly helped me filter out karma farmers from my feed that did nothing but repost memes or low effort shitposts.

Of course, not having total karma publicly tracked might make reposting a nonissue.

What came first? The chicken or the egg?

Did the system that created the conditions people find themselves in come first. Or did the people running the system create the conditions that they find themselves in?

People in this context appears to be plural, thus I don’t see how Montreal_Metro’s take is Great Man Theory.

The system sets the conditions of who is going to be empowered or rewarded for their actions and positions.

Ultimately, any system is operated by mere mortals who will arbitrarily reward and punish people based on their own bias, morals and desires. Systems only work so long as the people manning them follow the rules. Systems only last if the people running it punish rule breakers.

According to all of history, corruption, apathy, and pure human greed and ingenuity will gradually eat away any system, economic and political, until it collapses. Only for the failing system to be replaced by a “better” system, which begins the cycle again.

If basic economics get you upset, then alright.

Bye o/

Extracting free resources of the land

Not to be contrarian, but there is a cost to extract those “free” resources; like labor, equipment, transportation, lobbying (AKA: bribes for the non-Americans), processing raw material into something useful, research and development, et cetera.

I think the real implication of the system is that Reddit will also start banning you for down-voting posts too.

Even if they don’t outright cripple functionality, they’ll hound you endlessly to install the app.

Still don’t understand the logic of doing that.

It’s like saying,

“Our website is nigh unusable, please install our app instead. We pinky promise our app works”.