Nougat

Would it really matter? It’s just as easy to subscribe and then say/do whatever. Only accounts that have been subscribed for a period of time? Subscribe and wait. Have a certain post and/or comment reputation? It’s not terribly hard to speak to a specific audience and accomplish that. Make any of those extra parameters too severe, and you limit the community growth.

Crowdsourcing of ideas means that bad ideas are no worse than good ones, and in an evolutionary way, they’re probably better at replication, strength, retention - and when a core tenet of that “bad” idea is that you must actively reject the opposing good ideas, that’s how bad ideas overtake good ones.

oh no somebody’s mad

No idea, I don’t use it.

I can’t hear you.

I’ll explain UDP, but I don’t care if you can hear me, and no questions.

Oh, I suppose … one?

Of course it’s not typical! Ordinarily, companies don’t just shut down. I want to make very clear that this is not the normal state of affairs!

Are you some bizzaro world version of me?