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  • SerLava [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    after it literally not being an important enough issue for people to even weigh in on

    Do you have any idea of the vanishingly small number of people who even physically scrolled past whatever discussion you're talking about?

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        You said yourself it got like 9 upvotes, which means probably 20 people saw it. This site upvotes at a higher rate than many sites.

        Let's throw out some ways of understanding the current phenomenon. People didn't post before, and now they are posting a lot. What gives?

        Possibilities:

        • They didn't care, but now they see an opportunity to harass the mods. Ooooh, those users!
        • They're just stupid, and loved the name change, but they pooped their pants and need a nap, so they're being angry. Ooooh, those users!
        • They cared, but they were holding back. "Don't say anything now - we wait until March" they all said. Oooooh, those users!
        • Close to zero people saw the old thread. Nobody stickied it. The new thread was stickied, so everyone saw it. That was the first they heard about it.

        Which one of those do you think it was?

          • SerLava [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Lol I never remotely said it was a secret conspiracy, they just don't recognize that it had zero visibility, and are interpreting that to mean nobody "cared before" and you're making some of the same weird conclusions about people.

            The whole idea that nobody cared before is in the garbage unless you believe one of the stupid bullet points above.

              • SerLava [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                You know how like, people view web pages? Each time they look at a page on this site, they see a certain number of posts. The particular post you're talking about didn't show up on the computer screens for more than 0.02% of the user population

                But yes, God Ordained that the level of inherent interest in the post would twist fate, hiding the post from 99 percent of users. Then God Ordained that everyone would be mysteriously very interested at a later date, because the mods had incurred His wrath.