Every social place is a toxic cesspool of shit. Reddit, Bluesky, digg...even youtube and our very own slashdot.
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Damn did this ever trigger a memory, I just wish I could remember it fully.
A decade, or more, ago I vividly remember a period of time where Slashdot attempted to foster conversations on controversial social topics but the person they had writing the articles was extremely polarizing, threads easily going over 1,500 comments with some of those commentors being absolute monsters. Eventually, when the posts started becoming more of a meme, "Oh look, it's another one of his posts - wonder if he's gonna blame X, Y, Z or A, B, C this time!", coupled with the toxic negativity spreading to completely unrelated posts and bringing the site down they eventually stopped posting them.
Unfortunately I can't remember the specific writers name or the exact period this "experiment" took place, I just remember it happened and for a while it turned Slashdot into a polarized shitshow.