Biscuit

Detecting and blocking whole instances with many bots is somewhat trivial. Blocking and detecting some number of bots in an instance with 10k users, with an ever growing number of human users, is much harder.

I think a reasonable approach would be to include little javascript mini games. “Score 50 or higher!” with no instructions provided.

near as much about republicans

That’s a pretty poor metric/goal, but you’re obviously right. But, dehumanizing large swaths of strangers is bad. That template, used by anyone, is bad. Full stop.

Part of the issue is that the “nazi” line is being placed haphazardly. For example, this comment will be enough for some people to put me on the “nazi” side, without knowing anything about me.

To be fair, I see this said about republicans, and even center/independents, all the time. Dehumanizing is never good.

If I win, I’m going to double my keys and give them to the next person.

So -8% at start, +8% at end. Surprisingly close still.

“Local filtering” makes it sound like that’s removed, lol. I think the button could definitely be renamed “Show only this instance” or something.