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I'm still trying to square "upvotes matter" with "brigading exists."
But then, it would appear that using Reddit for news and attempting substantive discussion put me in a much smaller minority than I realized.
If upvotes don't matter because brigading exists, wouldn't that hold true for a community vote to remove mods as well? They'd be just as open to brigading.
No matter how you slice it--and I'm honestly not sure which side of the argument you're sassing here, so looking at it both ways is valuable--spez is pretending votes are unimportant in one context but the key solution to solving the core issue minutes later. It's incredibly inconsistent; the man is having an entire meltdown.
Apologies for the lack of clarity. I'm not saying "in all cases, both must be considered."
What I meant is that given the latter, the former can't be used as a universal gold standard, and reducing it to that is disingenuous at best.