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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

But it's not thousands here, it's a hundred people contributing maybe. I know most people here, I'd figure you would too.

Sometimes you might recognize handles if they keep making really good comments

Or have a really awesome handle like AmericanMuskrat. Seriously, I have noticed a difference in the frequency and tone of responses determinate upon my user name. Probably the best response I ever got was a name that made some people thought was female -- not intentionally of course.

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Yeah, it's obvious you're here for the feelgoods because that's obviously lacking in some other part of your life. That's kinda sad. It goes a long way to explain why people get so worked up about this site though - they don't have anything else. Jeez, this is just a website. I post and comment on, what...two dozen maybe? I don't even keep track.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Yeah, it's obvious you're here for the feelgoods because that's obviously lacking in some other part of your life

That doesn't make sense logically, simply because someone does something does not imply anything is lacking, it's simply what I enjoy.

You're a very pessimistic fellow.

I post and comment on, what...two dozen maybe? I don't even keep track.

You're also one of the most prolific and popular posters on here. Did you not know that?

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Chipit's here cause he gets paid to demoralize. I don't know about "popular".

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

He's constantly on the front page, pretty sure he has way more fake internet points than I do.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Artificial, thus "popular".

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

You think he upvotes himself twenty times?

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

All Chipit needs is a bunch of mindless followers and/or sock-puppets and/or bots to get 3 or 4 votes and solidly onto the front page to be updooted because most folks are NOT good filters, nor do they weigh the pros and cons of the torrent of incoming stuff.

Why does he need "a bunch"? Because M7 looks for give-away behaviour. How? I have no clue. How often? Ditto.

This bias pooling is a critical weakness of all Reddit-type forums everywhere.

Pet Peeve: I HATE that it's called "voting". The "points" are "likes" and "dislikes" or "insightful" and "fun" - not upvote and downvote. We're not in an election for politicians or policies and if we actually wanted to do surveys the word "vote" may be confusing.

[–]hennaojichan[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I was wondering where Chipit went. I must have blocked him after a bit too much sake. I think it was around the time he was trumpeting about getting ten thousand points.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's why block is such a bad idea. At least have people know they've been blocked so they're not wasting time responding to someone who will never see it and/or that there are blocked replies that you could peak at if you wanted.