while I'm tickled by biblenerd's comment, this repeated theme I see on comments and threads about the whale wars and bot campaigns makes it very difficult for newcomers to get a fair view of the platform.

It's like the 'mean streets of New York' except you can't see the robot gangs controlling the streets, only the greyed out comment corpses of their silent campaigns...

The new politics of decentralised online platforms. Interesting to see how the community manages all these shuffles for elbow room and voice

I appreciate you clarifying the politics of the flagging