This whole thing is ridiculous. It's not punishing, but it is the wrong demonstration. I see shitty comments getting down-voted en-masse all the time. That's what you want to see. You want to...
This whole thing is ridiculous. It's not punishing, but it is the wrong demonstration. I see shitty comments getting down-voted en-masse all the time. That's what you want to see. You want to scroll down and see that the community decided these things were so nonconstructive that they collectively decided to downvote it. The community is doing its job. Seeing the community respond to this shit in that way is a good thing. Mods are expected to deal with shit. Appealing to their authority to police the subreddit is not the correct course of action, especially with the community is shunning the maligned as it was intended.
Mods broadcast that "the community is shit look at these extreme examples" is a really shitty thing to do especially when the community they are responding to also said those extreme examples are shit.
Reducing this construct as "basic" is disingenuous. Dozens and hundreds of people are NOTHING compared to a community that size over 100k. So yes, it is just a few bad apples.
This whole thing is ridiculous. It's not punishing, but it is the wrong demonstration. I see shitty comments getting down-voted en-masse all the time. That's what you want to see. You want to scroll down and see that the community decided these things were so nonconstructive that they collectively decided to downvote it. The community is doing its job. Seeing the community respond to this shit in that way is a good thing. Mods are expected to deal with shit. Appealing to their authority to police the subreddit is not the correct course of action, especially with the community is shunning the maligned as it was intended.
Mods broadcast that "the community is shit look at these extreme examples" is a really shitty thing to do especially when the community they are responding to also said those extreme examples are shit.
Reducing this construct as "basic" is disingenuous. Dozens and hundreds of people are NOTHING compared to a community that size over 100k. So yes, it is just a few bad apples.