DISCLAIMER: if you’re looking for the usual summary, just go directly here. I’ve got a spleen to vent.
Say what you will, but I just can’t let this piece of news go. I actually have two subjects I’d like to broach.
First, I gauge reader reaction by voting, both positive and negative, as I am of the school of thought that participation is a good thing, regardless of in which direction the voting may go. Don’t test my limits on this.
I post about a man who diverted a river, your reaction was (at last look) 29 upvotes. I post about a trans woman’s testicles left in her ex’s fridge, 34 ups and 2 downs plus 27 comments even. I post about Taylor Swift, oh well then, 77 ups, 14 downs and comments galore! “Every gun death is avoidable”? 106 up, 16 down and, boy, were you all vocal with your 52 comments!
I post about an elected Michigan State Representative espousing racist conspiracies only David Duke could love and imbeciles would believe and…11 upvotes. Crickets. Don’t believe me?
- Wikipedia: Great Replacement
Far be it for me to tell you how you should feel or react to a situation. But, sincerely and with all due respect…how are you all not angered by this? I mean, y’all get riled by GNOME v KDE v some strange-ass TUI. Kirk v Picard v who-the-feez-ever? Outrage City. This? Crickets. Your silence on this matter concerns me.
The second subject I wanted to touch on is…tell me Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate doesn’t look like Clark Kent two seconds before he rips open his button-down shirt!
I think you’re overanalyzing engagement on a platform that is too small to have consistency.
I also feel like, a random Republican state representative retweeting something racist is so unsurprising as to not require a comment
@Infynis@midwest.social, thanks for your comment.
It’s hard not to draw certain conclusions when a Taylor Swift post will elicit five times the reaction as this reprehensible action. I do understand your (Infynis) and the general public’s “desensitization” to the absurdity of American life of the 2000s; you can swallow only so much of the exponentially increasing madness.
That said, there are some things that will always cross that line. This is one of them. The apathy demonstrated here in regard to KKK-member-in-training, Catholic-prep-school-educated, elected official Josh Scrivner leads me to believe you (in the general) are OK with him.
Thanks for listening.
I’m angered, sure. But I don’t think “racist politician shitposts” rises to the level of importance that I’d vote/comment on it. I try to avoid feeding into the outrage machine too much. But then, I prolly wouldn’t have voted/commented on any of the other topics you mentioned, either. Most of the time I’m just a lurker, I’m part of the problem.
Regarding your second subject… you’re not wrong lol
I try to avoid feeding into the outrage machine too much.
I get that. With all the free-floating clickbait, it’s a lot of distractions to field. But I’m glad you found it important enough to comment here and now.
Up, up and away! 🦸♂️
Downvoted for spending 5 paragraphs whining about downvotes
HA! 🤣
But, but, but…I wasn’t whining about downvotes.
Downvoted for saying but too many times.
Butt.
That’s better
There are a lot of posts that get downvoted because people don’t like their content, not because the subject isn’t of interest or isn’t worth talking about. I would hesitate to read overly much into it. Hell, sometimes I get into the comments and forget to upvote the top post.
The engagement is key. Votes seem less-so to me. But I’d note that the engagement here is about your rant.
As to your second point, honestly I thought that before you even commented.
Again, I wasn’t complaining about downvotes nor upvotes. I thought I was clear on that. I honestly don’t care whether a post is upvoted or downvoted but it is one of the only ways, other than comments, that I can gauge what may be interesting to the community. My “problem” essentially was the participation level on a Taylor Swift post as opposed to a truly important topic.
Look, we in SE Michigan have an idiot racist who is posting pseudo-science racial theories that is acting as our State Representative and I sure as hell am not going to sit quiet about it. I thought more people would be of the same mind but, for whatever
excusesreasons they may have, I could be wrong.Unfortunately, Speaker Joe Tate does not wear a blue leotard under his suit. I mean, maybe he does but…just joking, Joe!!
