My favorite version of this was an ad for applebees that said “you belong here!”. Like, I know that they meant it to be welcoming, but it came across as vaguely threatening …

Yeah, usually shows for a broken seat.

Mt favorite hobby. I don’t get to participate as much anymore due to my son, but I hope to get back into it one day.

That’s how cats and dogs operate too, unless people take it out of them. Barking and hissing is them saying “back off or I am going to freak out!”

That used to be true with the flash sales, but hasn’t the past few years.

What game?

I was walking past a parked cat at the hospital the other day, and the driver was all pissed because they put one of those violation stickers on it, and she was just dropping off food. It was parked in an intersection. In the crosswalk. Under the “No Stopping For Any Reason” sign. At a children’s hospital. I didn’t have a lot of sympathy for her.

So, the question becomes how do we rank posts and comments in a way that is not based on either upvotes or down votes or number of comments? I could see a trust value being made for each user based on trusted users marking others as trusted combined with a personal trust score, but that puts a barrier on new users and enforces echo chambers.

What else could be tried?

It can still be used to artificially pump up an idea. Or used to bury one.