I don’t think it’s just downvotes that are the reason posts are deleted. What’s being ignored, is what follows after downvotes. And that is, users being antagonistic over nuanced posts because the posts don’t contain the kind of brainrot-meme-lamejoke kind of content that is the norm.

And it is never a good feeling getting dogpiled on for absolutely no reason other than just not appeasing to whatever expectancy that is there. Additionally, when there isn’t enough activity aside from that, people can feel like ‘what’s the point?’ because they simply don’t have enough numbers of people engaging.

So this creates this discouragement within them to keep bothering.

This is bait. I’m tired of these bait posts.

They’re bait posts because they’re preying on people to drop some really spicy unpopular opinion that nobody, even including the OP, will handle. It’ll create a scuffle, arguments and there will be calling for post removals and report wars will happen.

Also, it reeks of Reddit too, including to the last line.

If anyone is going to hang with younger crowds, try to make a rule for yourself. I’m in the mid-30s and I would not be comfortable anymore trying to hang with early 20-year olds. So, more of my flow is the later-20 year olds like the 26, 27, 28 and the like.

Well, let that speak for itself.

He needs to play in the streets again, for old times sake.

I like the idea on paper but why do they have to go make it look like an expensive child’s toy?

Being a gatekeeper isn’t to be treated like its some unpaid employment. But, what would actually help in that example scenario, is if there is a universal agreement among the more knowledgeable members about what makes exactly what within a community or fandom. There can be a few branches to help weed out those from the fakers and the authentic members and there can be a level-support system to help measure up to.

Like to the example I used about religious symbolism, to expand on, do you necessarily have to practice magic to be a wiccan? Not precisely. There are other ways or methods that you could pledge yourself to, to be a Wiccan, it doesn’t have to always be about practicing magic although these days it is stereotyped. Though there are Wiccans who do practice magic, so where would they be? They’d be gatekeepers but only a subset, a portion in their own little spot. So, there is them and then there is another subset of people within the community that would be there to be there for those that help those identifying as Wiccan to educate them that ‘nah, you don’t always have to practice magic’.

It just goes by layers but there will be established layers that all are supposed to help filter a community from those falsely representing it.

Realize that AI will not actually do everything you think it would. Because it can’t. You still need to put effort in some things.

Sure, your question might be dunked on or joked with, but yeah, ask a person! /s

I feel that all and any recommendations or even the wheelhaus thing doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t work for me because I’m going to end up disagreeing with what the choice made for me is going to be. I don’t know, I’d like for there to actually be a more engaging method in how games are decided for me than just giving me this feeling on my shoulders that I HAVE to play something just because some random decider thing told me to.

It’s a furious cycle of its own.

permanent termination of military operations on all fronts

I’m not counting on that, at all. Wait until the next Republican that somehow gets in office or Trump does yet another 180 in his senile mind to once again attack Iran. Simply because the USA is known to retaliate in a future response because they don’t like admitting or confronting any level of defeat. A Republican will see this agreement as an insult, go war-crazy again and will plummet whatever it takes until they feel they’ve avenged America for this agreement.

Avocado. For some reason, for years, I thought they’d taste nasty. Turns out, they’re just like meat if it was a fruit and I dig that.

You know, in either direction Luigi takes, he’s going to be in prison for a long time as evidenced in the text here. Manslaughter? 25 years. Murder? Life. He’s fucked either way.

Mind as well go gung-ho and try hard for the ‘I didn’t do it’ defense.

I prefer vampires over zombies.

Zombies are really one-trick ponies. Their stories are redundant whereas with vampires, you could go anywhere with them.

And yet since they probably don’t and haven’t, aren’t using their mass wealth for anything beneficial other than to lobby and oppress. Aren’t seeing jail time or any massive penalties for them to worry about, the karma system is just make-believe.

Until the browsers I use axe ad-blocking, it’s as simple as a HDMI cable and watching through PC tunneled to TV.

I’ve given stream sticks an honest try, but they’re all abysmal. It feels like I’m caged in an advertisement ecosystem.

Parents.

They obviously demonstrated, multiple times, that they really didn’t want to be parents. If they didn’t want to be parents, then why did they decide to have me randomly? Especially mother who popped out three more kids she also failed.

Well, be prepared to be flipped off a lot. It’s what I did whenever Instagram or Facebook asked for a video verification of sorts.

1.49 is honestly not a bad bargain either. But, this just highlights where sales have degraded to over the past five years.

Inflation, to me, is code word for “I’m going to be greedier”. So, I’m so sick of seeing that word ‘inflation’ being thrown around so much because it’s just excusing and justifying the greed.