Well said.

Here, you've essentially reconstructed Sam Vimes' (read: Sir Terry Pratchett's) Boots Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness, in which a well-off man buys a solid pair of boots (priced accordingly) that keep his feet comfortable and dry for ages, while the poor man goes through multiple pairs of cheaper shoes that fail at keeping the cold and wet out...and still cost, in aggregate, more than the single pair of quality boots.

Your post subject is, word for word, what immediately went through my head on reading the title prompt. There's certainly more humanity by raw quantity invested in the general goings-on of the Internet now than before... but there's a definite element of curated-by-money in it, also. Like anything else, I guess.

You're just trying to shift suspicion away from Alf.

I disagree -- it's precisely as full of hot air as I would expect a stirling defense to be!

But to the spirit of your remark: agreed -- a sterling defense it surely isn't. :)

En Taro Adun!

Clearly "Radio Free Zerg" had to be broadcast somewhere.

I mean, yes SO moderation is so deservedly infamous, but surely that is preferable to what amounts to mass delusion as presented by uncurated "AI"-generated content.

Each sentence after your first few sent my eyebrows shooting further and further into my hairline. The entire thing, from the game management to the player community, just sounds utterly intolerable to me.

My experience with Deep Rock Galactic runs so counter to this in every conceivable way, it's Unreal.

Er...yes? When someone interacts with objective reality on a purely accidental basis, then the best possible use of their input is to discard it. GIGO.

Repetition doesn't make this any less silly.

Ah, that's just a variant of the Scotty principle, then.

Nail on head. This is the 24-hour news cycle equivalent of high frequency trading. The horror. The horror.

Goodness, no.

Computing got by just fine for decades without the mass-hoovering of end-user data. Not all of us just bent over and took it when Microsoft's Win10 shenanigans hit their stride.

Oh, lord, cable TV. One of these is not like the others...if anything, this is the easiest to do without, now.

Please, this is doable without the dire Robinson Crusoe-esque look that you might be going for, here.

Ok, how much of that did you jokers do on purpose?

Microsoft's Outlook has gone all Cloudy? Come on!

Imagine being unable to recognize a signature or irony.

Just imagine that blissful ignorance both to basic forum functions and to Poe's Law.

Just imagine.