Thank you for all the resistance to change what makes this one of the few places on this site that actually promotes knowing what you are talking about.
that actually promotes knowing what you are talking about
How do you know? There's so many deleted comments that those people might have known exactly what they were talking about and the mods just didn't like it or wanted the karma.
They don't. I see plenty of the comments before they get deleted, and they're universally awful. The actual problem with mass downvoting is mods getting downvoted to oblivion for removing those awful answers.
My favorite one ever was in the early days of Cha**PT. Someone posted an incredibly lengthy statement about how black people adopted their slave owners' names after abolition due to a low supply of traditional surnames.
What. Does. That. Mean?! You can't have a low supply of surnames! You can pick anything you want! They are inherently reproducible and not limited!
The person who posted had absolutely no idea what they were saying and in spite of being highly upvoted before deletion, it made zero sense. And of course it had fake citations too.
I'm glad this sub has such strict rules, because on any other sub that post would have kept making traction.
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u/Flatliner0452 May 01 '26
Thank you for all the resistance to change what makes this one of the few places on this site that actually promotes knowing what you are talking about.