Also from the Open Slopware organisation:

"… nothing good can come of it if/when Graham and his reddit buddies find out they're blocked. …"

– that's a baseless, mean-minded, tawdry accusation.

Re: the screenshot here, the first of my three 'friends' is a test account that I created. Not truly a friend.

The second is a highly-upvoted contributor who had difficulty with his Reddit account. I spent many hours helping him, and silently working around some of the difficulties. Probably not a mutual friendship; I have no idea whether, or how, other people make use of the feature.

The third is u/TheSunflowerSeeds <https://www.reddit.com/user/TheSunflowerSeeds/> – an automated account, an app. A single upvote from me. I vaguely remember responding to a single comment a year or so ago. Until today I wasn't aware that it's non-human. I don't remember adding the account, I was probably testing something.

Those three aside: some writers gain more votes than others. It's as simple as that, and the colouring by Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) <https://redditenhancementsuite.com/> helps me to see, privately, when a disagreeable comment is written by someone who I frequently upvote.

The Open Slopware implication that I'm a rabble-rouser is just ugly. Is there a better word than "ugly"? Yes: sloppy.

Slop.

Human slop.

#human #slop #truthfulness #openness #Reddit #friendship #AI

The false claims―that I followed someone to the Fediverse―seem to be malicious. I can neither trust, nor respect, individuals or organisations that adopt tactics such as this in response to public dissent.

The screenshot here shows that I did not follow. I wrote first on Sunday 29th March, in response to what appeared to be the first response to the opening post.

@emaste @evilham @ltning @mwl

#trust #respect #misinformation #openness #truthfulness