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Is it “incredibly” high though? I think you have legitimate criticisms but compared to other news aggregator/ social media sites I think the quality is very high.
Compared to sites like lobste.rs and some super moderated topic-specific subreddits, it is 'incredibly' high.
Funny you should mention lobsters; while it doesn't happen as often as it does here, that site also likes to bash us on our collective noggins that $internetThing is bad and spying on us as if we didn't get it. Probably the only reason it doesn't happen with the frequency it happens here is that lobsters has a much smaller active poster userbase.