That’s a good point about how I mitigated the worst aspects.
I have a similar feeling about Twitter. I hate algorithmic status/tweet timelines. But I never had them, due to third party clients. So I was in a different world when it came to Twitter.
And I think we just fundamentally disagree about the value of the awards in smaller communities. It does not matter to me if they had value for sorting. They had social value.
Most awards were anonymous afaik, or at the least the awarder name was not prominent or important to anyone. So the idea it was a badge to puff up the awarder does not hold weight for me.
That’s a good point about how I mitigated the worst aspects.
I have a similar feeling about Twitter. I hate algorithmic status/tweet timelines. But I never had them, due to third party clients. So I was in a different world when it came to Twitter.
And I think we just fundamentally disagree about the value of the awards in smaller communities. It does not matter to me if they had value for sorting. They had social value.
Most awards were anonymous afaik, or at the least the awarder name was not prominent or important to anyone. So the idea it was a badge to puff up the awarder does not hold weight for me.