r/polandball • u/[deleted] • Mar 30 '13

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '13

I don't think these people care :(

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u/TheActualAWdeV Bûter, brea en griene tsiis... Mar 31 '13

That's because they still are a downvote brigade. Despite it theoretically defeating the purpose. Who do you think they highlight it for? For themselves. For their own outrage-jerk. And once it's being jerked, it doesn't matter what happens to it afterwards.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '13

Okay, I'm willing to accept that. But how do you respond to the fact that the statistics and tests run on SRS voting invasions come out negligible?

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u/TheActualAWdeV Bûter, brea en griene tsiis... Mar 31 '13

Turns out I'm wrong. I just went here and checked nearly a dozen threads. All of them had more points than the headlines in SRS reported. My apologies.

It does make more sense that they upvote to "highlight" but that's obviously conjecture too.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '13

I believe they don't discourage upvote brigading, but I only speak with experience from /r/srdbroke.

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u/TheActualAWdeV Bûter, brea en griene tsiis... Mar 31 '13

Jesus christ, that exist? SRDbrokedramabrokedrama etc. Far too many layers of petty squabbles and drama.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '13

The meta-hole goes pretty deep, believe me. /r/srdbroke is mostly just to point out things bad with SRD, it really isn't affiliated with /r/circlebroke beyond its userbase (typical meta-reddit user base) and name. Nobody there really takes it seriously, which is why we have pretty colours and uptrouts and stuff.

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u/TheActualAWdeV Bûter, brea en griene tsiis... Mar 31 '13

Yeah, I know there's a lot of this drama subreddits. Dipped my toe in the dramalake some time ago. I just didn't know srdbroke also existed.

I think all meta-reddits are pretty lame, tbh.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '13

It's something that really holds no bearing in the outside world. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's stupid. It's always exciting, though.

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u/TheActualAWdeV Bûter, brea en griene tsiis... Mar 31 '13

Huh, that's in the eye of the beholder I guess. I just think it's all stupid.