The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

Post by deadmetheny » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:46 PM UTC

fleitz wrote: post #183

deadmetheny wrote: post #179

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I'm going to give you the choice of being stabbed or punched. It would be morally presumptuous on my part to assume you don't actually enjoy the choice you have made, given you took that choice logically.

I'd take being punched, easy choice. Removing a cancel button or publishing a listicle is hardly a false dichotomy, you can close the app, you can not click on it. Users love anti-patterns which is why they frequent businesses that engage in them, rather than choose another business that doesn't. I had your inclinations too when I started making them, I protested that this would lead to various bad outcomes which did…

Post by ric2b » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 4:20 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #28

Raphmedia wrote: post #24

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> Wow that's some incredible brigading. Is it really brigading? The entire gaming community hates those practices. Nobody is manipulating people to downvote this comment. It's genuine hate and digust. Paying the price of a game to unlock one single character is a joke. EA's reply is also very bad. "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes." I fail to see…

I mean "brigading" in the technical sense of people passing around the link and getting more people to pile on than would organically occur, not necessarily the astroturf connotation. Because for most users, comments under a certain threshold (-50) are hidden (but can be revealed manually). The entire r/Battlefront userbase is just 91K users.

Post by CaptSpify » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 9:51 PM UTC

kazagistar wrote: post #43

whamlastxmas wrote: post #34

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The beatings will continue until morale improves

Well, now you know why PR ie so notoriously tight lipped and why so few companies offer to explain unpopular things. As long as they don't speak, the explanations are all just hypotheticals.