I did not think of the angle of boosting "engagement" by forcing people to dig through comments to find the comment they wanted to find. However, based on my own anecdotal, personal experience, I think that has to be outweighed by the number of times a person gets frustrated with the entire site and closes out of it, rather than resuming their endless scrolling.
I truly believe this one can be chalked up to incompetence. As shitty as these people are, I do not believe that any engineer gets a direct memo from a higher up to "boost engagement by hiding the reply after a user clicks a notification for that reply." I have a more realistic view on most conspiracies that they are a lot more casual than that. For example, I believe planned obsolescence in products isn't spoken about, but rather, when an engineer asks a higher up if they should go route a or route b, where route a is more expensive, but route b will cause the device to fail possibly within a year, the higher up makes a decision with the idea of planned obsolescence in his head, but covers it with "we need to save costs."
You specifically mentioned you have difficulties finding the thread to reply when arguing with liberals.
Worsening your experience for going against the narrative is an attenpt to modify your behavior. Keep it up and you'll soon find yourself in "Facebook jail".
Read B.F. Skinner's Schedules of Reinforcement and it will make sense.
You specifically mentioned you have difficulties finding the thread to reply when arguing with liberals. Worsening your experience for going against the narrative is an attenpt to modify your behavior. Keep it up and you'll soon find yourself in "Facebook jail".
No, I understand it. This was actually my original thought when it started happening. I explained this in my first comment.
What made me realize it wasn't this was when 1) I had the same issue when talking about non-political matters in the comments, or even when I was actually arguing for the state-approved narrative in cases where my views happen to align and 2) I have heard the same bug affecting normal NPC liberals who always follow the narrative.
I did not think of the angle of boosting "engagement" by forcing people to dig through comments to find the comment they wanted to find. However, based on my own anecdotal, personal experience, I think that has to be outweighed by the number of times a person gets frustrated with the entire site and closes out of it, rather than resuming their endless scrolling.
I truly believe this one can be chalked up to incompetence. As shitty as these people are, I do not believe that any engineer gets a direct memo from a higher up to "boost engagement by hiding the reply after a user clicks a notification for that reply." I have a more realistic view on most conspiracies that they are a lot more casual than that. For example, I believe planned obsolescence in products isn't spoken about, but rather, when an engineer asks a higher up if they should go route a or route b, where route a is more expensive, but route b will cause the device to fail possibly within a year, the higher up makes a decision with the idea of planned obsolescence in his head, but covers it with "we need to save costs."
Maybe you don't get it.
You specifically mentioned you have difficulties finding the thread to reply when arguing with liberals.
Worsening your experience for going against the narrative is an attenpt to modify your behavior. Keep it up and you'll soon find yourself in "Facebook jail".
Read B.F. Skinner's Schedules of Reinforcement and it will make sense.
It's intentional.
No, I understand it. This was actually my original thought when it started happening. I explained this in my first comment.
What made me realize it wasn't this was when 1) I had the same issue when talking about non-political matters in the comments, or even when I was actually arguing for the state-approved narrative in cases where my views happen to align and 2) I have heard the same bug affecting normal NPC liberals who always follow the narrative.