This is what spending time only on the “positive feedback” based platforms does to a person. Mostly using Reddit as an example, as it’s the prevalent website using this system.
By the use of “upvotes”, the post is pushed up. The ones with many upvotes are easy to see and engage with. The ones with small amount of upvotes are pushed down into almost unnoticeable area, where people are too lazy to even expand it to read it.
The problem occurs when a new person seeking contact about hobbies or whatever shows up. With a first few of the posts failing to get noticed the outsider can subconsciously determine that in order to get heard, they need to talk and style their speech like *popular* redditors. This slowly pushes the poster to fit the template and forget about their “uncultured” way of talking. (Think the NPC meme)
How does that connect to the drama?
Well, Kiwifarms doesn’t follow the positive feedback routine. Because, while it’s true that posts can be upvoted which might put emphasis on some of them, it’s equally easy to get your post queues by someone with a comment “Wow you are a retard faggot, sneed, gtfo” etc and it’s not *hidden* even if the negative response doesn’t garner enough “stickers”.
How does a brain of terminally online “normie” deep in the cult of twitter, reddit or any other service reacts seeing forum like this? Where opinions that disagree with their taught dogma are allowed to be expressed? Where echo chamber is shattered? Well, we’ve seen how in the recent weeks. Screeching, baring teeth, gayops, mob like behaviors, threat, extortions. All that just to remove a place where people dare to comment about stuff and not align with their worldview.
Personally, there are threads on this website which initially were annoying to read, as the users frequenting them had a lot of opinions misaligned with mine. But after a second thought, what a valuable experience it is?
Anyways, stay strong, stay true. And thanks Null.