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Civilization is simply a geno-memetic-techno-capital machine
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And if I used the minus sign last week, I would have just minused out half the CW thread.
Again, I'm just not seeing it. What top-level threads from last week's CW thread are the witchy ramblings you are talking about? It seems well-rounded to me, with Christianity receiving more pointed criticism last week than Jews or the Holocaust.
I might be off, but there was some point in the recent past where there was a suffocating amount of jew posts, I will concede it might just be in my head.
Nonetheless my suggestion applies to any and all topics that suck out too much oxygen. It would have the added benefit to some people of rate limiting "witchy" topics. Even if that isnt the goal.
There was a relatively active holocaust revisionism thread recently, that was annoying if you view the site through the comments feed, because it contained these massive longposts you had to scroll through endlessly, but it's inaccurate to say it dominated the CW thread for the week.
It's easily fixable with my brilliant idea of the "mute thread" feature.
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Again, I'm just not seeing it. What top-level threads from last week's CW thread are the witchy ramblings you are talking about? It seems well-rounded to me, with Christianity receiving more pointed criticism last week than Jews or the Holocaust.
I might be off, but there was some point in the recent past where there was a suffocating amount of jew posts, I will concede it might just be in my head.
Nonetheless my suggestion applies to any and all topics that suck out too much oxygen. It would have the added benefit to some people of rate limiting "witchy" topics. Even if that isnt the goal.
There was a relatively active holocaust revisionism thread recently, that was annoying if you view the site through the comments feed, because it contained these massive longposts you had to scroll through endlessly, but it's inaccurate to say it dominated the CW thread for the week.
It's easily fixable with my brilliant idea of the "mute thread" feature.
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