Fuckcars was a reasonable community in the beginning but once karma farming started it went 0 tolerance quick. It’s like some militant vegan energy vampire mod saw the potential and took it. Now it’s some matrix situation where they feed off a constant flow of rage.
Reddit and mostly all “social” media only care about engagement. Psychologists have found out that negative information has a significantly higher chance of user engagement to respond (comment, share) than positive information
It’s why ragebait is so effective and why it’s everywhere (even Lemmy and BlueSky,)
me when my unpaid full time job is to virtue signal on a bumper sticker sub reddit
Yeah, you seem totally different
They’re dunking on the mod for saying smashing a window = violence
Fuckcars was a reasonable community in the beginning but once karma farming started it went 0 tolerance quick. It’s like some militant vegan energy vampire mod saw the potential and took it. Now it’s some matrix situation where they feed off a constant flow of rage.
Reddit and mostly all “social” media only care about engagement. Psychologists have found out that negative information has a significantly higher chance of user engagement to respond (comment, share) than positive information
It’s why ragebait is so effective and why it’s everywhere (even Lemmy and BlueSky,)